Reviews
Michael Murphy. Author (Future of the Body) and founder of Esalen Institute, California.
“In Carmen Via, Dado Anson has opened up new vistas on the wondrous landscapes of Italy and the ancient peoples, myths and songs they embody. There is magic in this exquisite novel and a heightened sense of what it means to be truly alive.”
Stanislao Nievo. Author (Prato in Fondo al Mare), environmentalist, founder of Parchi Letterari (Literary parks), museum homes and parks of the greatest poets and authors of Italian literature.)
”Carmen Via” is a book written by a profound and mysterious voyager, who …. crosses the formative times of our beautiful land, Italy, from so-called ages of origin to our contemporary time. His path is both dark and luminous, as forgotten nights emerge from the past into the luminous, star studded panorama of our earliest masters: myths and symbols. In his book, Bernard (Dado) Anson breathes new life into a very ancient way, marked by miles of sculpted ruins, leading those readers who crave for the higher nutrition of our most structural, primeval sources. I cry out “hurrah !” to the beginning of this new adventure, Carmen Via, which I hope we will be able to continue together.”
John Allen. Founder of Global Ecotechnics Corporation and the Biospheres project (Arizona), poet .
"Bernard Anson Silj's notion was to bring certain key European landscapes (particularly Etruria, Rome, and Hades) parallel with peoples, stories, and history). A wonderful book for those with a taste for leisurely contemplation of some rare biospheric talismans."
Masolino D’Amico. Author (Oscar Wilde) critic. Professor of English Language and Literature at Rome University.
“Bernard Anson’s book is exquisitely written in a clear and limpid style. It is a book which escapes all categories, and its thoughts are always tempered by irony and understatement. It is a lyrical, mythical voyage, which was presented to me “for review” but which I ended by enjoying enormously.”
Miha Pogacnik – virtuoso violinist, corporate speaker and Cultural Ambassador for Slovenia.
"This happened only once in my life: I started reading a book, could not stop until the end and then immediately booked the flight for Rome to meet the author, Bernard Anson Silj!
Here we have a great piece of Art working in a mysterious way against the hardening tendencies of our civilisation. The stories release imagination out of the "factual", helping us to perceive the world in its true poetic nature and to ‘remember’ the future. It is a piece of literature not to be read but to be lived and unfolded. Through the composition of archetypal stories Anson creates space out of time, offering an antidote to our prevailing crisis of meaning. Not only its written content, but also the beauty of the book’s layout and musical photo-images tell of dedicated teamwork! Thank you and may I warmly recommend CARMEN VIA!”