INKROCI N.26 – OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2017
Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Baby Party
When John Andros felt old he found solace in the thought of life continuing through his child. The dark trumpets of oblivion were less...
Herman Melville – The ‘Gees
In relating to my friends various passages of my sea-goings I have at times had occasion to allude to that singular people the 'Gees,...
Words from Ireland
Interviews
The future is a bad path – Interview with seven writers
On the occasion for the anthologies publications, “The bad road” (Delmiglio editions) and, “The future’s price” (La Ponga Editions)- both edited by Gian Filippo...
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EDITORIAL
The Border
Crossing the border: crossing the frontier, going beyond the border line.
An interpreter, similarly to a translator, is always a symbolic boundary: he/she lies between...
COVER
COMICS
Literatures
Road to Perdition
USA, 1930s. Michael O’Sullivan is a good family man and leads an apparently secluded and devoted life. While Michael goes to work, as every...
Karen Blixen (as Isak Dinesen) – Winter’s Tales
Winter’s Tales is a collection of eleven short stories, wrote in the ‘30ies and published in 1942.
The pieces contain several recurring themes that go...
Aoibheann McCann – Sanctuary
Limbo
You will not tell me how you got here. You cannot tell me how you got here, but I do not even ask. Why...
Aoibheann McCann – One of those women
I brought on the bleeding seven times over the years before it stopped altogether. Miriam down the road, then her daughter, would peer out...
Wallace D. Wattles – A new Christ
This times I’ve decided to talk about a great book, yet still widely unknown: A New Christ.
To those readers who may discard the book...
Aoibheann McCann – Johnny Claire
We crowded around the screen and watched him putting ‘J.C.’ into the Hall of Fame. He had got the top score in Street Fighter...
Reviews
Caroline Smith – The Immigration Handbook
Caroline Smith (Orbis 176) is delving here beneath the morass of statistics and forms to...
Four times that night (1968)
This is an unusual Mario Bava’s movie (Sanremo, 1914- Rome, 1980) , one of our...
Joan Barfoot – Duet for three
Aggie, June and Francis are respectively grandmother, mother and grand-daughter: three women who are deeply...
I am mine [Io sono mia]
Sofia Scandurra (Rome, 1937-2014) is a writer, screenwriter and documentary maker. This is her only...
In This World
Some Afghan kids are playing in the muddy refugee camp in Shamshatoo near Peshawar looking...
Conor O’Callaghan – Nothing on Earth
Shards
A distraught young girl appears on the doorstep of a man living alone, and tells...
Will Eisner – Last Day in Vietnam
War as an experience
Eisner, through the collection “War stories”, brings the reader to Vietnam and...
Theodore Sturgeon – The Dreaming Jewels
Hope is a dream within reach
After having suffered the umpteenth injustice, Horty, a weird adoptive...
Barbara Garlaschelli – Mermaid
Suffering without rhetoric
One day in the month of August 1981, Barbara Garlaschelli, who is both...
Lucille Fletcher – The Girl In Cabin B54
High Anxiety Mysteries
A ship's doctor thinks he has permanently buried his past but a creepy...
