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''The Via Veneto Papers'' is a memoir collection by Ennio Flaiano, originally published in Italian in 1973, with a new expanded edition by Rizzoli in 1989 and translated into English by John Satriano in 1992. ==Synopsis & Narrative Style== Wrote critic Richard Eder in Newsday: :''To read the late Ennio Flaiano is to imagine a bust of Ovid or Martial, placed in a piazza in Rome and smiling above a traffic jam. In his antic, melancholy irony, Flaiano wrote as if he were time itself, satirizing the present moment.'' This is the first English language edition of the Italian original ''La solitudine del satiro'' (lit. ''The Satyr’s Solitude'') published in 1973, a year after Flaiano’s death. The book is divided into three sections: *The first, ''The Via Veneto Papers'', is an evocation of the Rome of ''La Dolce Vita'', of the early stages in the writing and the realising of the film itself, and, through a series of brilliant little sketches, a commemoration of the aging Italian poet Vincenzo Cardarelli, skeptical survivor from an earlier time, representative of an altogether different life. *''Occasional Notebooks'' comprises the second and longest section: satirical commentaries and diary jottings on diverse subjects: film, art, literature, world politics, Italy and the Italians, contemporary culture, travel. *The concluding section is an interview given by Flaiano shortly before his death: entitled ''Concerning Satire, Boredom, Faith,'' it’s a kind of spiritual testament of one of Italy’s most brilliant modern writers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Via Veneto Papers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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