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The Novel that Unravels Democracy
Past Present Future
The Watcher Is a Novella Set in a Real Place
The Watcher was published in 1963. It's set ten years earlier, so it's set on Election Day in 1953. The place is Cottolengo in Turin, a vast institution run by the Catholic Church. There's a strong touch of social realism about it, but it's also written in a tortured kind of dialectic at certain stretches.
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