by Elio Vittorini · Minúscula · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495587015
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«Cerdeña como una infancia» is Elio Vittorini's travel account, published by Minúscula in 2000 in paperback (104 pages, in Spanish).
The book stems from the trip Elio Vittorini made to Sardinia on commission from the magazine Italia Letteraria. Between initial enthusiasm and final melancholy, the author combines fascination with the landscape and its people with a critical look at Sardinian society, and reflects on happiness and the difficult reconciliation between tradition and progress.
The work belongs to the Paisajes Narrados collection (number 3), translated by Atilio Pentimalli. It was originally published in 1932 under the title «Viaje a Cerdeña».
For readers of classic European narrative interested in travel literature and the literary portrait of Sardinia.
Elio Vittorini was an Italian writer and novelist. He was a contemporary of Cesare Pavese and an influential voice in the modernist school of novel writing. His best-known work, in English speaking countries, is the anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily, for which he was jailed when it was published in 1941. The first U.S. edition of the novel, published in 1949, included an introduction from Ernest Hemingway, whose style influenced Vittorini and that novel in particular.
