Three Workers

Three Workers is a realistic novel for the social themes it addresses, for the surroundings it describes, for the fidelity to the human events it nar¬rates without transcending. However, it is a realism continually filtered through a subjectivity that reduces objects to luminous sensations. Li-ght continuously envelopes things, dissolving them in colored images where modest tones prevail. The sea always appears to us as a muddy horizon, the sun comes to us crosswise and in strips, things cast smoky, desolate shadows. The novel’s descriptive technique confers a twilit existence upon objects that becomes a dominant atmosphere. Objects, events, and characters do not lose the force of their reality, rather their reality appears as interrupted and shattered by a game of light and sha¬dow that renders it intensely human. Thus, in the narrative technique the events, in the present tense, are interwoven with dialogue and, not infrequently, inner monologue which, as we know, blurs and subjectivi¬zes the objective world. (by Enrico Bernard & translated by A & A Vitti)