The narrator of these fictional tales has set off on a walk along the valley of the River Po. The stories of the people he meets are presented in a series of episodes and anecdotes, throughout which the landscape of the Po becomes the unifying focus of attention.
"Voices from the Plains" is one of the most interesting and original narrative accomplishments of the last twenty years. Gianni Celati's poignant and disarming simplicity debunks all assumptions on modern life and leads us into a countryside populated by curiously urban loners. Around the human objects he observes, Celati creates an ideological void that compels us to the most honest considerations not really on them, but actually on ourselves.
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