Il giorno della locusta
A Classics, American, Novels book. I'm going to be a star some day," she announced as though...
"Il più bel romanzo mai scritto su Hollywood" (Scott Fitzgerald) "Uno crede che si tratti di lavorar sodo e di risparmiare. E lavora forte per anni e anni, risparmia sognando il sole, e sognando arance, sognando il mare; ma il piccolo benessere materiale, il sole e le arance, e le arance, il mare che può riuscirgli di avere non bastano a cambiare il corso avvilente della sua vita. Egli, per noia, diventa stravagante. Una macchietta tra milioni di macchiette sull'immensa spiaggia: con una mania, con un tic, con una particolarità bizzarra. E, per la delusione, diventa anche cattivo. Una locusta tra milioni di locuste che possono, se fanno folla, calpestare i bambini e sradicare gli alberi, o appiccare il fuoco a Los Angeles, alla turrita città della Promessa, a Babilonia". Elio Vittorini
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