Blurb
Giorgio de Maria – ‘Twenty Days of Turin.’ This work by de Maria follows a man in Turin who chooses to investigate a series of unexplained, violent events that occurred a decade before the setting of the novel. The killings, all done with the same bloody modus operandi, happened in some of the city’s best-known spots, often in full view of hundreds of people, yet no one could really remember anything except for vague hints of shadows sliding among the almost catatonic crowds and the echoes of metallic, grey, and threatening cries. The horror in this novel has been cited as an allegory for the fascist violence that plagued Italy during the Years of Lead from the 1960s to the 1980s.
About the Author:
Giorgio De Maria was a pianist, critic, playwright, and novelist. He wrote four novels, the best remembered of which is Twenty Days. It has a cult following in Italy and in leftist circles.
I think this will be cool when it starts to make a little more sense. Like, I’m not sure what this monster is that’s batting people against trees or why the statues switched places. So either I’m a bad reader or it’s still pretty mysterious. I’d be curious what background events in Italy the author might have seen around him. Idk much about what Italian society was like before and during the rise of fascism. Like if there are historical incidents being alluded to I wouldn’t know. The nice boys who start the library are a funny touch.
This was published in 1970s in the midst of the years of lead. And his own kids argued it was about terrorism. And a lot of the neo-fascists arrested for committing heinous terrorist attacks ended up free.
Got it thanks. When I referred to the “rise of fascism” think I confused myself because I’m also reading a book called Mephisto by Klaus Mann that is set in and was written during mid 30s in Germany and I thought a similar thing was going on. I’ll have to read about the Years of Lead. I’ve never heard of it.
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