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Sebastiano Vassalli. Cuore di pietra. Turin. Einaudi. 1996. 286 pages. L.28,000. ISBN 88-06-14189-9.
The latest novel by Sebastiano Vassalli is in a certain sense "new" because quite unexpected, and reading it one wonders whether postmodernism, far from being almost extinct, as we are frequently told, rather lives on tiredly, enabling certain writers, temporarily deserted by their Muse, to write too many things at the same time. This way of producing culture is easily popular and apparently very appealing to the author.
Cuore di pietra, in my opinion, seems to be a condensation of the multi-use made possible by...