D'ANNUNZIO CONDEMNED.
HIS WORKS PLACED ON THE INDEX. By Tcleeraptt—Press association—Copyrieht Rome, May IC. The books of Gabriele d'Annunzio, the Italian novelist , and dramatist, have been placed on the Index Expurgatorius by the Vatican authorities.
Signer d'Annunzio has carried the literature of sensations further, perhaps, than it has ever been carried before. "In all his works," said a "Times" leaderwriter some- timo back, "life presents itself as a series of sensations, which have no connection oxcept as they happen to a single person, and no significance or value except for the pleasure or pain they give, to that person. One sensation is as good as another to him, if only it gives a pleasure as exquisite. . . There is something boring in tho most exquisitely-written account of mere sensations; and the writer, conscious of this, strives to make them interesting by his manner of relating them. Thus ho is led more and more into virtuosity and even into ■falsity. He is tempted to represent his sensations as more exquisite and poignant than they really are, and sexnn his readers cease to believe in him. Literature, as he practises it, seems to them to be much ado about nothing; and that is exactly what it is."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1130, 18 May 1911, Page 5
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204D'ANNUNZIO CONDEMNED. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1130, 18 May 1911, Page 5
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