SOURCE: A review of In sonno e in veglia, in World Literature Today, Vol. 62, No. 3, Summer, 1988, p. 445.

In the review below, Capozzi offers a brief stylistic and thematic discussion of In sonno e in veglia.

An Excerpt from the Iguana

Unexpectedly calm and unafraid, she stood before his eyes. With a kerchief wrapped around her head and several times around her neck, she was dragging a huge grey broom distractedly about the guest room. Rather than cleaning she might have been scattering dust and disorder out of spite. Her small dry eyes, moreover, seemed oddly fixed and unresponsive.

The Count's first impulse was to approach her and take her in his arms, telling her what he intended to do for her and that starting right now she was forever to think of him as her servant and her daddy and she'd bear his name and have all of...