Pound's Silence

<p>As <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mirella Serri stated in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>tuttolibri la Stampa </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)></span>The story ends with a clever surprise by the would-be biographer. Rightly we are used to separating political orientation and artistic production. This applies however to literary criticism. Nonetheless in the creative space of a novel Elkann allows himself the freedom that those who work with the imagination can afford. And so he inflicts on Pound an exemplary punishment for his anti-Semitism for his compromise with Nazism and fascism. A punishment that we certainly do not reveal what it is.<span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)></span></p>