“FRIDAY DI-VERSO” “God had taken back that precarious peace and filled the void of silence. It was still Judgment Day.” It happens to hear combinations of words that, due to strange circumstances, are well suited to an object totally different from the original one. So it was for these: “scenario and substance”. There was talk of a city but they settled on the pages of Bae Myung-Hoon with very elegant grace and timing. So what...
The books chosen by Andrea Salonia This review is available only in the original language _________________________________________________________________________ Anche qui: perché? Perché ho cominciato a leggerlo, perché Le meraviglie – queste, in particolare, e non altre, fatte di altre parole, di altre storie, di altre suggestioni, di altro… Questo Le meraviglie, edizioni Einaudi, di Elena Medel, poetessa e scrittrice spagnola che non conoscevo, è un romanzo corale, un romanzo di formazione, un romanzo difficile. La traduzione in italiano è...
“Mafia does not exist.” Pages to be framed. Take them one by one and wallpaper the walls of Italian schools, so as to remain fixed in one way or another in the minds of the students, even the most distracted. If you have already read Carlo Levi, here we are faced with something completely different, such as the structure and history of the story, the prose and the story and the power of the words...
The books chosen by Federica Dagonese This review is available only in the original language _________________________________________________________________________ Un libro difficile da incasellare in un solo genere letterario, tanto è vario, tanto la storia sfiora i vari aspetti e le varie emozioni dell’essere umano, che difficilmente possiamo circoscriverlo ad una specifica area. Perciò se stai cercando un libro libero da vincoli e pronto a trasportarti in mondi con regole che non conosci, stai prendendo in considerazione il...
The books chosen by Andrea Salonia This review is available only in the original language _________________________________________________________________________ Se sei un medico, dovresti leggerlo. Se sei un paziente, dovresti leggerlo. Se sei un individuo senziente, dovresti leggerlo. Questa la prima e più verace impressione che traggo dall’aver mangiato in un sol boccone Bianco è il colore del danno di Francesca Mannocchi, edito da Einaudi Stile Libero. Anche qui: evviva il passaparola; un’amica, che di lettere e letteratura...
“The steel whale they walked in was deforming.” Let’s start talking about the genre immediately, even if the definition on the cover might seem strange, because more than a novel it is a story of a real event, with a precise and detailed search for testimonies, technically it is a non-fiction novel (translatable precisely with novel, in its broadest sense). As we have said, the book is the result of a long research by the...
Written by Marialia Calabretta This review is available only in the original language _______________________________ Questo libro parla di quanto saldarsi a terra, nel mondo reale, salvi. L’autore espone in modo limpido e razionale le cause e i rischi della progressiva perdita di contatto tra l’uomo e la realtà. Fantasticare, immaginare e proiettare sono attività meravigliose, ma vanno allenate e indirizzate. Le non-cose, così belle e desiderabili, abbagliano, catturano e distraggono: ci fanno dimenticare delle cose. La negatività della resistenza è...
“But the bodies of the sick transform the other bodies.” We chose this book to break the ice on the first ameeting of the book club created together with the friends of the Mondadori Bookstore in Barona (Milan). A collaboration born to relaunch shared reading even in the suburbs of large cities, and which we are sure will last over time. With the usual sincerity, we admit that we started reading the book unconvinced, without...
“He always has the good face of one who is at peace with his own conscience.” Street stalls where used books are sold should always be blessed. Small sarcophagi of knowing where, if you have the passion to search like modern archaeologists, you will discover unique treasures, capable of making our eyes shine, and broaden our horizon of knowledge. So it was for us with this book and, in particular, for the edition we found....
“Another empty day unfolded before him.” Go to the bookstore, look for this book and read it. In case your reference bookstore does not have it, book it and await its arrival. We write it directly, without the possibility of misunderstanding, because this book causes physical pleasure to reading, both for the story told and for the writing. A caress for lovers of the Italian language, which should be read at school to make the...
