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Essays and Asides: Letter from Rome
Bower, Anthony | December 24, 1949 issue

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This article focuses on literary scene in Rome in 1949. The literary scene is not particularly scintillating. A large part of contemporary Italian literary talent seems to be recruited or to draw its inspiration from the south, which provides as it does in America, by its cultural, political and financial anachronisms, a rich field for literary exploration. The writers themselves do not live in the south, but then neither do most of them choose Rome. The most sensational if not the most laudable figure in Roman artistic life is Giorgio de Chirico, who is firmly holding the limelight by abusing all contemporary art and all his own painting previous to 1930.

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ARTS; LITERATURE; AUTHORS; DE Chirico, Giorgio, 1888-1978; PAINTING; ROME
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