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Marco Paolini, Gabriele Vacis The Story of Vajont
Thomas Simpson, ed. & tr. Boca Raton, Florida. Bordighera. 2000. ix + 116 pages, ill. $13. ISBN 1-884419-41-0
I REMEMBER THAT many years ago I reviewed here a book about the very Italian tragedy of the collapse of the Vajont dam (Stramalora by G. A. Cibotto). Now Thomas Simpson, a lecturer in Italian at Northwestern University, has translated Marco Paolini s work that retells the awesome event in topical-historical terms (the two descriptors are not contradictory when referring to this tragedy).
The Story of Vajont represents the written version - i.e., a compendium - of a one-man show that Paolini has given all over Italy since 1993 in various piazzas, cultural centers, schools, and factories, ending up on television with a very large audience. In the theatrical version, Paolini was directed by Gabriele Vacis. However, even when Paolini faces an...