| #2174311 in Books | Danilo Dolci | 1981-12-12 | 1981-12-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.75 x5.50l,.95 | File type: PDF | 336 pages | Sicilian Lives||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Sicilian Lives Do Matter|By Tony Theil|Dolci has not learned from Studs Terkel that "hope dies last". Each interviewee has a pessimistic tale to tell, completely devoid of optimism. They clearly reveal for over 30 years the obstacles put before them in a society controlled by corrupt politicians, mafiosi, and feudal land barons. And in some stories, the ground is literally f||“Mr. Dolci also listens, which is why he is called the Oscar Lewis and Studs Terkel of Sicily. For 30 years, he has written down what he hears and read it back to the teller. A story—a connection—is made; lives are rescued from silence. . . .
When Danilo Docli, peace worker, organizer, educator, first arrived in 1952 in Trappeto, a village of peasants and fishermen in western Sicily, there were no streets, just mud and dust, not a single drugstore, not even a sewer. (In fact, the local dialect didn’t even have a word for sewer.) Like other Sicilians, the villagers, seen by many Italians as “bandits,” “dirt-eaters,” and “savages,” had, in effect, been mute for centurie...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Sicilian Lives (Pantheon Village) | Danilo Dolci. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
