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The way Szerb writes about pre-war Italy and the passivity of the average Italian is really, really interesting. I had skipped the introduction, but see the same thing caught the attention of the introduction’s writer. Entire books should be devoted to dissecting this paragraph.

“I know what’s wrong with me,” he told the doctor. “Acute nostalgia. I want to be young again. Is there a cure for that?”