Top Quotes & Sayings by Corrado Alvaro

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian journalist Corrado Alvaro.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Corrado Alvaro

Corrado Alvaro was an Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays and plays. He often used the verismo style to describe the hopeless poverty in his native Calabria. His first success was Gente in Aspromonte, which examined the exploitation of rural peasants by greedy landowners in Calabria, and is considered by many critics to be his masterpiece.

The black­est des­pair that can take hold of any soci­ety is the fear that liv­ing hon­estly is futile. — © Corrado Alvaro
The black­est des­pair that can take hold of any soci­ety is the fear that liv­ing hon­estly is futile.
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