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The World Machine
Series: The Italian List
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A vivid and unforgettable novelistic portrait of rural Italy, exploring the nature of reality and the human condition. A small-time farmer living in central Italy in the 1960s is the keeper of a great truth: that people are machines built by other beings who are machines...
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A vivid and unforgettable novelistic portrait of rural Italy, exploring the nature of reality and the human condition.
A small-time farmer living in central Italy in the 1960s is the keeper of a great truth: that people are machines built by other beings who are machines themselves. Our true destiny is to build ever-better machines so that society can become a techno-utopia in which friendship can be established among all people on earth.
These ideas bring him into conflict with everyone, especially his wife, against whom he is accused of ill-treatment. His quest takes him to Rome, where he presents his truth, hoping it will bring him worldwide recognition. Behind his poetical reveries and unfathomable scientific notions lies the disturbing fragility of a lone, paranoid, and deluded man in conflict with everyone, including himself.
Paolo Volponi's unique novel The World Machine examines the relationship between rural life and the modern city, as well as the subversive idealism of a society still firmly anchored in the past, dominated by the Church, and unable to grasp the need for change.
Series: The Italian List
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781803093765
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 08 October 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Illustration: 1 halftone
Contributors:
- Translated by Richard Dixon
- Afterword by Richard Dixon
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 513g
Pages: 312
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About the Author
Paolo Volponi (1924–94) was one of Italy’s leading novelists and poets during the second half of the twentieth century. He is the first author to have twice won Italy’s most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize, including one for The World Machine. Richard Dixon is a translator, whose works include the final books of Umberto Eco, including his novels The Prague Cemetery and Numero Zero and books by Giacomo Leopardi, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Roberto Calasso, Stefano Massini, and Antonio Moresco.
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