Viareggio Prize (Premio Viareggio / Premio Letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci) Premio Viareggio-Rèpaci
Edition 23 (1952)
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1 peopleThrough observations and notes on rural southern Italy, this reportage-like book looks at poverty and inequality in peasant communities in Puglia. It blends affection for the region with social criticism and offers a calm but forceful indictment of reality.
A book that looks at the lives of Puglia’s peasants from the space between history and lived reality.
164 pages
Southern Italypeasant lifesocial criticismreportage