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A collection of 41 short stories: the characters act like "automatons" – mechanical, listless, incapable of authentic reaction to life's problems. Modern man alienated, trapped in routine, sex, money and passivity, without will or feelings.
The novel The Materassi Sisters, published in 1934, is the most famous work of the Italian writer Aldo Palazzeschi. The story is set in the suburb of Florence, Santa Maria a Coverciano, between 1918 and 1928.
Marcello Clerici, obsessed with normality after a traumatic childhood and a homosexual attack, becomes a fascist bureaucrat. He marries the average Giulia, and on their "honeymoon" in Paris, he is assigned to kill a former professor, anti-fascist Quadri.
The Other End (2016) is part of the Inspector Salvo Montalbano series. Set in the fictional Sicilian town of Vigàtu, the novel combines criminal intrigue with the current topic of the migration crisis, with Camilleri's signature humor.
In Florence 1925–1926, in the poor Via del Corno, the residents live in love, poverty and fear. The arrival of fascism destroys the community: lovers fight, some die from violence, but popular solidarity survives.
The novel follows the declining Roman bourgeois family of Ardengo over the course of several days: widow Mariagrazia, lover Leo, son Michele, and daughter Carla – all trapped in apathy, lies, sexual manipulation, and moral indifference.