Italian novelist associated with Naples, best known for Ferito A Morte, a novel that probes memory, provincial bourgeois life and the melancholy of mid-20th-century Italy.

Associated in his fiction with Naples and themes of memory and social observation. Ferito A Morte is a central work discussed in English-language reviews on DeBaser.

A single, admiring English-language review reads Ferito A Morte as a meditation on Naples, memory and the provincial bourgeoisie. The reviewer identifies with Massimo de Luca and highlights the book's rhythm, voice shifts and elegiac tone. The review treats the novel as both local portrait and universal portrait of stalled lives. Recommended for readers of mid-century Italian fiction.

For:Readers interested in Italian literature, Naples-set fiction, and meditative, memory-driven novels.

 I find myself, or perhaps I like to find myself, in the position of Massimo de Luca, protagonist and alter ego of the writer in a Naples of the late '40s, early '50s, early '60s, where the protagonist confuses the wave of memories in a continuous coming and going from past to present, describing everything from a future hidden to the reader, where all things have already happened, and I feel surrounded by human types entirely similar, beyond the epochs, spaces, and cultures in this country that loves differences to not see itself too similarto itself at every latitude, in every place.

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