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A review by cinzia
The Garden of the Finzi Continis by Giorgio Bassani
2.0
How disappointingly lack-lustre and bland. With the prologue being as it is - i.e a blatant revelation about the fate of his beloved counterparts under the horrific facist regime Italy was subjected to in the late 1930s - one would expect some emotional weight, force, drive, juxtapositional beauty.
No, there was none of it. Absolutely nothing. Just a bland and, dare I say it, pointless reminiscing of details which bore no literary or poetic worth. Which was such a shame, as this book is set in a period and concentrated on a part of Italian history I'm interested in learning more about.
I wish I understood the overwhelming amount of four and five star reviews. I can only determine from my unpopular opinion that I was not the right reader for this book.
No, there was none of it. Absolutely nothing. Just a bland and, dare I say it, pointless reminiscing of details which bore no literary or poetic worth. Which was such a shame, as this book is set in a period and concentrated on a part of Italian history I'm interested in learning more about.
I wish I understood the overwhelming amount of four and five star reviews. I can only determine from my unpopular opinion that I was not the right reader for this book.