Book review: Realism and morals in a novel

Mad-Daqq tal-Vjolin 

By Salv Sammut

Published by Horizons, 2022

It is an undisputable fact that every artist, author, painter, sculptor, poet and writer leaves in everything he creates the mark of his times, of the environment around him and particularly that of his own feelings and his character, and also particularly how these last ones occur around him, and the ultimate effects they have on his life. Every human sentiment conceives in Man various views of the stage on which he has to live all his life, surrounded by beauty and not so beautiful things, with joy and sadness, with the hopes and dreams that will eventually lead him on to the inevitable end.

Meanwhile, the years and experiences then intensify as art in the artist, and the more experiences he goes through in his life, the more his artistic force intensifies and gathers momentum in his quest to create works that generally surpass and excel in artistry the previous ones.

This mainly applies to the writer. No need to mention the greatest of authors of all time, many of whom have built a monument to themselves after their death, thanks to the masterpieces created during their lifetime. Not even the present authors,...