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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books, Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bVOL/WO
100			_aVolponi, Paolo
245			_aWORLD MACHINE _b(The Italian List)
250			_a1
260			_aCalcutta _bSeagull Books _c2024
300			_g236
500			_aTranslated from Italian by Richard Dixon. A vivid and unforgettable novelistic portrait of rural Italy, exploring the nature of reality and the human condition. A small-time farmer living in central Italy in the 1960s is the keeper of a great truth: that people are machines built by other beings who are machines themselves. Our true destiny is to build ever better machines so that society can become a techno-utopia in which friendship can be established among all people on earth. These ideas bring him into conflict with everyone, especially his wife, against whom he is accused of ill-treatment. His quest takes him to Rome, where he presents his truth, hoping it will bring him worldwide recognition. Behind his poetical reveries and unfathomable scientific notions lies the disturbing fragility of a lone, paranoid and deluded man in conflict with everyone, including himself. Paolo Volponi’s unique novel The World Machine examines the relationship between rural life and the modern city, as well as the subversive idealism of a society still firmly anchored in the past, dominated by the Church and unable to grasp the need for change.
650			_aItalian fiction
650			_aNovel
700			_aRichard Dixon (tr.)
942			_cLEN
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999			_c196548 _d196548