Now it is a center of sports (Juventus), a gateway to the Alps and home of the Slow Food movement. In the twentieth century, Turin was probably best known as an industrial city, particularly as the home of Fiat. The English translation was published by Ramon Glazov in 2017 and ever since I first read it I have been wanting to visit the places mentioned in this chilling story, just to double check…Īs Glazov says in the translator’s introduction, the book “is a sinister, imaginary chronicle of the author’s home city as it suffers ‘a phenomenon of collective psychosis.’” Strolling around the city center on a dark day, it was almost disturbingly easy to slip into an apocalyptic frame of mind. In short, it was perfect weather to view some of the landmarks mentioned in one of the great modern ghost stories The Twenty Days of Turin by Georgio De Maria.
Today it was rainy and misty in Turin, with a creeping sense of gloom.
0 kommentar(er)
