Twilight of the Gladiators
Från FrankHeller
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| + | For nearly forty years Frank Heller, a distinguished Swedish novelist, has roamed throughout Europe, and has come to know its peoples in a unique way. In ''Twilight of the Gladiators'' Mr. Heller makes refreshing use of his intimate knowledge of the hearts and minds of the Italian people, their traditions and history, to give us a picture that is both understanding and penetrating. For Frank Heller knows not only the politicians, military leaders and diplomats, but the people themselves — little shopkeepers, farmers, factory workers, artisans, lawyers, doctors, office workers, simple peasants — and he knows them as the human beings they are. ''Twilight of the Gladiators'' has the unique quality of presenting Italy and its people in the final years of Fascism from the inside and at the same time relating them, their thoughts, their feelings, and their actions to the larger European canvas. The result is highly informative. | ||
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| + | This is the picture of the tragedy of the Italian people being taken in by gangster fascists. Here is Italian Fascism as it sees itself and as it is seen by the Italian people. Mr. Heller shows us impartially but with keen understanding the people of Italy under the Fascist regime — their dramatic instincts entranced by the Fascist pomp and show, their soul burning with an ardent passion for freedom, and yet strangely indifferent to struggling to achieve that freedom. Their attitude is one of clasping to their bosom one bad political situation after another in the fear the next might be worse. | ||
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| + | Written with a lively touch, it shows the Italian people as they really are. If Italy has been an enigma, and we believe that it has been and continues to be for most of us, ''Twilight of the Gladiators'' will do much to give the necessary human material from which we can confidently and intelligently form our own opinions. | ||
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