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Italian Literature Today
Livingston, Arthur | May 12, 1926 issue

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Italian literature has been dogged by the curious fatality that its influence should be much greater than the recognition accorded it. The instructive contrast is the ease of France, a country which in every age has been able to sell its intellectual produce at prices higher than par. It has often been said that the French know how to write, while others don't. But the explanation is a tautology. The fact is that sympathies are matters of sentiment and not of rationality, and the, safety and sanity of French "common sense" is more nearly the common denominator of Western civilization than the much more original and fundamental thinking that sometimes appears, for instance, in Italy.

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