Columnist Ivan Fenech has a critical mind, an incisive pen and a perfect command of English, however, it is sad to see him in an all too partisan fashion repeatedly dismissing Manuel Dimch as ‘a criminal’ (March 10).
I do not think much of the Dimech monument and I said that personally to its socialist-realist sculptor, the late Anton Agius. Dimech never even mentioned Lenin, of whom the Castille monument (inaugurated by Lorry Sant in 1976) is evocative.
However, before deciding to pontificate so dismissively, Fenech should at least have a peep at my latest book on the man, entitled Dimech’s Lost Prison Poems: Preamble to a Life of Militancy (Midsea, 2014), which was launched at Sant’Anton Palace last October 21, and which also contains a general introduction.
As Dimech was rather more than “a socialist and a criminal”, a better instructed Fenech might even rethink his jaundiced view.