Life Is Not a Dream

Salvatore Quasimodo, La vita non è sogno [Life Is Not a Dream], second Mondadori edition January 1952, 'Lo Specchio - I poeti del nostro tempo' series. Publisher's wrappers with illustrated cover typical of the series. Copy with evident defects: tears at upper margin of cover, general wear, yellowing. Poetic work by the future Nobel Prize winner for Literature (1959), originally published in 1949. This collection marks Quasimodo's transition from Hermetic poetry to a more civically engaged lyric, influenced by the experience of war. Study copy, not for collection.