About this Book

Published in 1951, inspired by a chronicle episode that really happened in Calabria at the end of the war, "Il brigante " is a novel that fits into the tradition of neorealism and tells the story of a young man who became a bandit in spite of himself, only because he was unjustly blamed for having killed someone. One of the most beautiful and tragic novels that have appeared for years, truly a small masterpiece. Writing is superb: precise, clear, neither too simple, nor too pompous. Both for the style and for the content, only the preface (by Berto himself) is noteworthy: in a few pages, or rather in a few words, he manages to draw a picture of the immediate post-war period and of neorealism of extreme clarity and ...