Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Keywords
Plinio Martini, Val Bavona, book review
Abstract
Martini's book provides the reader with an insight into the harsh life in one of the least known parts of Switzerland the Val Eavona in the upper Ticino. Far removed from the more luxuriant southern landscape around Lugano and Locarno this is a world of steep dangerous mountains and poor soil, of hard work and little recompense. For generations emigration has been a part of every family's life: the older sons were forced to seek their livelihood in distant countries, thus making room for the younger children and leavng behind mourning women-mothers , sisters, fiancees and even wives. All this is also cart of Plinio Martini's life who was born in 1923 in Cavergno in the Val Bavona where he now lives as a schoolteacher and poet. Although poetry is his essential interest he has set it aside to write down in this novel the unheralded drama of his people.
Recommended Citation
Burkhard, Marianne
(1976)
"Plinio Martini, Nicht Anfang und nicht Ende: Book Review,"
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter: Vol. 12:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_newsletter/vol12/iss1/4