In the third section should be read in the singular "pre-Christian intuitions" in the authors of the Greek and classical Latin. For example, the carpe diem of Horace's memory, is an exhortation to focus on daily living "direct drive", to catch, to taste it. It seems "to echo the rough, but constructive sapienzialità the biblical Ecclesiastes" (p. 160), and can be seen in the exhortation of Jesus to not "wearing ourselves for tomorrow," because "each day has enough evil thereof "(Mt 6:34). Why Simone Weil, noticing some similarities between the classical thought and the Christian message, speaks of a "pre-Christian intuition" of Horace (cf. p. 161). In the fourth section contains profiles of writers of the twentieth century and contemporary, fascinated or just feel challenged by the Gospel. It starts from the itinerary of synthesis between literary criticism and spiritual excavation, and refers back to p. Castles, and especially with his Faces work of Jesus in the modern literature. Finally, the last section offers portraits - both in the human dimension both in the literary - of four important interpreters of the plot between faith and reason, fallen almost in a damnatio memoriae, where today they relegated the publishing industry: it is Italo Alighiero Chiusano, Mario Pomilio, Ferruccio Ulivi and Luigi Santucci. In conclusion, this is a work of Beck well maintained, offering interesting insights and stimulates to move, with the "restless spirit" of Augustinian memory, in a continuous journey in search of truth.
Valentina Cuccia