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Article: Seta.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
- Author:
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A pleasant surprise for the observers of contemporary Italian fiction, Alessandro Baricco's Seta has maintained the top spot on the best-seller list for several weeks. It is interesting that a slim novel with an underdeveloped plot has achieved such tremendous success.
The story within Seta is extremely simple. From 1861 on, Herve Joncour, a French industrialist who owns a few silk-weaving factories in Lavilledieu, makes a series of trips to the Far East in order to purchase silkworm eggs which have not been tainted by a disease that is destroying the French silk industry. His last trip is a failure. The eggs hatch before his arrival in Lavilledieu, and the village is ...
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