A Time to Kill (Flaiano novel)
| Author | Ennio Flaiano |
|---|---|
| Original title | Tempo di uccidere |
| Language | Italian |
| Publisher | Longanesi |
Publication date | 1947 |
| Publication place | Italy |
Published in English | 1950 |
| Pages | 385 |
A Time to Kill (Italian: Tempo di uccidere), published in the United States as The Short Cut,[1] is a 1947 novel by the Italian writer Ennio Flaiano. It is about an Italian lieutenant during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War who tells how he accidentally killed an Ethiopian girl while on leave and struggles with guilt.[2][3]
The book received the Strega Prize.[4] It was adapted into the 1989 film Time to Kill directed by Giuliano Montaldo.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "The Short Cut". Kirkus Reviews. 1 March 1950. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ^ Tomei, Renato (2022). "Translation and colonial landscapes: Ethiopia in A Time to Kill by Ennio Flaiano". Forum Italicum. 57 (1): 125–152. doi:10.1177/00145858221130427.
- ^ Re, Lucia (2017). "Italy's first postcolonial novel and the end of (neo)realism". The Italianist. 37 (3): 416–435. doi:10.1080/02614340.2017.1407988.
- ^ "Ennio Flaiano, Filmwriter; Collaborated With Fellini". The New York Times. 21 November 1972. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ^ Fabrizio Natalini (2005). Ennio Flaiano. Una vita nel cinema (in Italian). Artemide. ISBN 88-7575-017-3.