Blind Argus
by Gesualdo Bufalino
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An old man, haunted by the imminence of death, harks back to the loves of his youth in a small Sicilian town where he was a schoolteacher. As he breathes life into his memoires, a whole world of laughter and pain is evoked. Gesualdo Bufalino also wrote Night's Lies.Tags
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- Canonical title
- Blind Argus
- Original title
- Argo il cieco
- People/Characters*
- Cecilia,
- Important places*
- "Circolo dei civili", "Donnalucata"
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 853.914 — Literature & rhetoric Italian, Romanian & related literatures Italian fiction 1900- 20th Century 1945-1999
- LCC
- PQ4862 .U344 .A89 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Italian literature Individual authors, 1961-2000
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- 5 — Catalan, English, French, Italian, Spanish
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- Paper
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