Much like the title suggests, this book has
left me completely indifferent. The novel reads like a bad (very bad) soap
opera: characters despise each other, pathetically fail to kill each other,
pretend (very poorly) to love each other etc. For once, a book set in Fascist
Italy that I didn’t like. Actually, not just that: a book whose point (assuming
there was one) I completely missed.
Somehow Gli
Indifferenti is considered one of the great classics of Italian 20th
century literature. Why? I don’t know. If it is, like many critics claim, an
acute portrayal of the hypocrisies and problems of the Italian society of the
time, I missed it because I was bored to death… Luckily, this is a book that is
frequently taught in Italian high-schools, I suspect they are just trying to
make sure that those few students who actually enjoy reading end up having any
sort of passion for literature beaten out of them at an early age.
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