One book by a writer from San Marino, set there, that gives a real sense of the place: He, I Say, He.
Very little writing from San Marino, a tiny republic surrounded entirely by Italy, has been translated into English. Italian is the official language, and everyday speech is a Romagnol dialect, the kind spoken in neighbouring Romagna. Writers there work mostly for a very small home readership. The republic's founding story is central to how it sees itself: tradition says a stonemason, Saint Marinus, founded it in 301 on Mount Titano, and its laws were gathered in the Statutes of 1600.
Roberto Monti's He, I Say, He is told as the stream-of-consciousness memories of a struggling musician. It recalls a San Marino childhood, a boyhood hero modelled on Zorro, and the money troubles and the fame that never came. It gives English readers a rare view from inside the republic.
A struggling musician's stream-of-consciousness memories of a San Marino childhood, a boyhood hero modelled on Zorro, money troubles and fame that never came.
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