IL SOTTOTENENTE GUSTL, Arthur Schnitzler (1901)

• Country:  AUSTRIA
• Original Title: LEUTNANT GUSTL
• Italian publisher:  IL SOLE 24 ORE S.p.A.
• Publication dates: 1901, 1st ITALIAN ED. 1984 [ED. IL SOLE 24 ORE 2011]
• Pages: 58
• Translation:  GIUSEPPE FARESE
• ISBN #:  9-771973-564394-1008

• Main carachter: SOTTOTENENTE GUSTL

- Funny and fast reading, up to page 27...
- So crazy, tragicomic Gustl, looks like a friend of mine...

SOTTO IL CRINALE E ALTRI RACCONTI, Ernest Hemingway (1972)

• Country:  USA
• Original Title: THE FIFTH COLUMN AND FOUR STORIES OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
• Italian publisher:  IL SOLE 24 ORE S.p.A.
• Publication dates: 1972 [1st ITALIAN ED. MAY '11]
• Pages: 103
• Translation:  VINCENZO MANTOVANI
• ISBN #:  9-771973-564394

• Main carachter: HENRY, IL PELATO

- I liked this 4-stories collection that I red in 2 hours.
- Very sad the last one, Sotto il crinale, but so true facing the desertion issue during the Spanish civil war. So cruel thinking to leave those moments, in which you as a soldier are pretty sure to going to die but you cannot go back, or you will killed anyway by yours.
- Hemingway writes in such a way that it would be hard to say that he was not there.