books.google.com - It stands as a modern classic not only for its powerful thematic resonance as one of the great novels of Italian anti-fascism but also as a trailblazer for its style, which blends literary modernism with the pre-modern fable in a prose of lyric beauty. Comparing Vittorini's work to Picasso's, Italo Calvino...http://books.google.com/books/about/Conversations_in_Sicily.html?id=-vHVpD3FYzQC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareConversations in Sicily
