Winter Journey [Viaggio D'Inverno]
Bertolucci, Attilio / Benson, Nicholas Translated here into English for the first time in its entirety by Nicholas Benson, Bertolucci's WINTER JOURNEY (Viaggio d'inverno, 1971) traces the author's nervous anxiety and the broader afflictions of an emergent consumer society at the Italian midcentury. Increasing social proximity illuminates a persistent isolation, relieved only-tenuously-by the bonds of family and friendship.
In a country then recovering from the effects of nationa...