Every book can be summarized in 6 paragraphs….
- ABC Traveler Library. Edition 2004
- Author: Norman Lewis
- Book for interested in: Second World War, Italy, Coobrist chronicles.
- What will? Diary of a British intelligence officer who must report on the situation in what is the Italian city of Naples after freeing her from fascist and Nazi domain. The story is brilliant, exciting and full of humor..
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They sent us to approach Indian in the dark and fish to the alleged spy who dared to make signs to the enemy in the mountain. We surround the town, We wait for signs to begin; Then we intervene and capture a man who headed with a flashlight to the only toilet in the town
From the first moment, The Lewis chronicle becomes a delusional portrait where allied intelligence services of Bruces collide with the reality of a rural society, poor and basic that fights to survive.
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The goal of his visit was to find out if we could take care of his sister entering an army brothel. We explain that there was no such institution in the British army. 'Pity', The prince replied. The two speak English to perfection, who had taught them an English governess.
-In order, Luisa, I guess if it can't be, it just can't be.
The work explains poverty that affected the entire city, including their upper classes that sought to continue with privileges then besieged by a universal hunger. One of the representatives of the best families in Naples intended to plug his sister as a prostitute. The portrait of that decadent old southern nobility is a constant during the text and leaves sublime scenes.
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Governed by the north, They had always been discarded as backward regions, that they only had value as a source of cheap labor and cheap food production. In that I had to prove him. The facts are, how would all Italian admit, that the south is practically a colony of the north industrialized
One of the great values ??of this ‘Naples 1944’ is that in large part it could be titled ‘Naples 2024’. Lewis's successful look denounces many of the evils that continue to afflict the city and the country. The North and South Gap, course, It is the great challenge even today from Italy.
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A couple of weeks ago, The musicians of an orchestra that played in San Carlo for an audience dressed largely with blankets of the Allies Hospital, They did an intermediate of five minutes and when they returned they found that all their instruments had disappeared. And someone stole from the museum a collection of incalculable value, replacing them with modern imitations; And when the thief wanted to sell his loot (According to the news) He learned that the originals were also falsifications
Napolitan picaresque is a constant throughout the work. Naples' soul is portrayed with dozens of similar scenes where the tragic ends up being fun by grotesque.
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At the time of my arrival, The lava progressed slowly on the main street and, About fifty meters from the edge of the great pile of slag that moved slowly, Hundreds of people prayed kneeling, almost all dressed in black (…) I diverted on a side street and warned the presence of another image, Also with a large and covered entourage with a white sheet. One of the Carabinieri who patrolled in case there were looters explained to me that it was the image of San Gennaro, that they had led to hidden from Naples, In case it could be of any help in case everything else failed. They had covered her with a sheet for not offending the brother of San Sebastiano and the Holy, that could be bothered by that intrusion in its territory
The book causes laughter, especially for those who know the surreal soul of the city. Religion, His saints and their superstitions are an essential part in the life of some inhabitants accustomed to being on the edge of the razor until when the nearby vesubio explodes. And there, How Lewis teaches in his portrait, The supernatural becomes mundane.
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A year ago we freed them from the ‘fascist monster’ and are still sitting there in the ruins of their beautiful city, where the law and order have ceased to exist, striving to kindly smile, as hungry as ever and more overwhelmed by diseases that never. And what will be the award that will be achieved in the end? The Renaissance of Democracy. The wonderful perspective of being able to choose their rulers one day among a list of powerful men, whose corruption are almost all of the public domain and are accepted with tired resignation. The times of Benito Mussolini must seem lost time compared to that
Naples 1944 It is not just a magnificent chronicle costumbrista, It is also a brilliant political chronicle of someone who understood the country and who successfully glimpsed what would happen in the same decades at the same start of that new stage. This paragraph seems written for its crudeness and success fifty years after that already 1945 that Norman Lewis portrays.
| Style | 9,50/10 |
| Content | 10,00/10 |
| Valoración | 9,75/10 |
