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Venetian Red, by P. M. Pasinetti. The canals of Venice are mocking mirrors of human folly in this wry first novel about two fascinating Italian families...
Venetian Red, by P. M. Pasinetti. The canals of Venice are mocking mirrors of human folly in this wry first novel, whose author weaves his comments on Italy into a tale of two fascinating families...
...Fassolas stuff their black shirts and their bellies. The intertwining fortunes of the two families require, and almost justify, every episode and dialogue-choked page Novelist Pasinetti allots to them. Young Enrico Fassola falls in love with Elena, but she breaks his heart and pride by having an affair with a childhood sweetheart. Test Pilot Massimo Fassola plummets to a watery death, leaving another Partibon girl pregnant. Novelist Pasinetti does deft sketches of pedants and peasants, including a notable portrait of a venomous Fascist toady...
Actions & Gestures. Like a lazy mocking mirror of human folly flow the canals of Venice. Novelist Pasinetti tellingly evokes "the bride of the sea," with its funereal gondolas, its swish of steps and voices and waves on marble landings, its wheeling pigeons under a volley of church bells. Pasinetti was born in his setting, is now a professor of Italian at the University of California at Los Angeles. He wrote his novel in Italian and then translated it into English on a tape recorder, a method that gives the book a convincing, though sometimes too pronounced, foreign accent...
...long story, Uncle Marco finally shows up, and proves to be a kind of lifelong peripatetic anarchist. His final moral counsel is: "See that you always perform actions, never gestures." But hardly anyone seems to live by that advice-except Author Pasinetti. His book, far from an empty gesture, is the kind of literary action few writers trouble to take any more; it is an old-fashioned book and uncommonly satisfying...