Il Filo Di Seta

by Carlo Sgorlon

Italian

335 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1999

About the author

Carlo Sgorlon was born in 1930 in Cassacco, a tiny village near Udine, capital of Friuli, a region in northeastern Italy near the Austrian and Yugoslav borders. He spent much of his childhood in the countryside, where he attended primary school only rarely but came into daily contact with Friulian peasant life. The influence of his grandfather, a retired schoolmaster with a strong literary bent, and his grandmother, a practicing midwife steeped in local folklore, formed the basis of his love of literature and his reverence for ancient peasant traditions.
He has written a number of novels in the dialect of Friuli, as well as twelve novels and numerous short stories in Italian. His fiction has been translated into French, Spanish, Finnish, German and certain Slavic languages. His literary scholarship, aside from translations from the German, includes two major critical works, one on Kafka and the other on Elsa Morante.

Reviews

[Iván · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un viaje desde Italia a Asia tras las huellas de Marco Polo. Es la historia de un viaje de varios monjes que llegan a China y Mongolia. Un viaje lleno de situaciones y encuentros. Esperaba más de la historia, se queda coja y corta en muchas partes. Para pasar el rato.