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Directed by Francesco Rosi Screenplay by Francesco Rosi, Tonino Guerra, Raffaele La Capria...
...MORTAL WOUND by Raffaele La Capria. 191 pages. Farrar, Straus...
...narrator's past; the real heroine, however, is the blowzy city of Naples, which either "mortally wounds you or puts you to sleep." The dialogue (in better-than-average translation) has a crisp, contemporary cadence, and the writing can be perceptive and well-tooled, but La Capria pushes his confusingly large cast onstage in the manner of a cinematographer who dabbles in impressionism. Though the satire shows talent and the technique is modishly modern, the mortal wounds of the characters emerge finally as that most difficult of subjects -futility...