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648 pages, Paperback
First published September 22, 1955
“All kinds of miracles could happen,” he continued without looking at her. “But someone has to teach you how to look at them so you’ll know they are miracles…” “Some say that on this night at exactly midnight the heavens open. I don’t quite understand how they could open but that’s what they say: that on Midsummer Night, the Night of St. John, the heavens open. But probably they open only for those who know how to look at them.”
If we wait for our liberation to come with death, then we haven’t gained anything. The problem is how to be freed from the belly of the whale as living beings, alive, in Time, in History…
“I’m an idiot!” he declared, musing, after his laughter had subsided. “I don’t understand anything. A country schoolteacher has to come here – a half-drunk maniac – to open my eyes and show me what’s happening around us, to reveal the meaning of History to me!”


["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>"E allora, in quel momento, ho capito cosa fosse Sambo. Ho capito che esiste qui, sulla terra, vicino a noi, alla nostra portata, e tuttavia invisibile agli altri, inaccessibile ai non iniziati, esiste uno spazio privilegiato, un luogo paradisiaco che, se hai avuto la fortuna di conoscerlo, non puoi più dimenticare, poi per tutta la vita. Perché in Sambo sentivo di non vivere più come ero vissuto fino allora; vivevo in un altro modo, in una continua, inesprimibile felicità."