The Skin
No discussion of “The Skin”, a novel published in 1949, should start without first debating the case of its author, Curzio Malaparte. This because...
The Book Thief
The Book Thief is an American “kolossal” costing 19 million and distributed worldwide with overall takings of almost 80 million. In Italy is was...
Two Women
Two Women is a great film and based on the intense and intriguing novel by Alberto Moravia. The book is written in first person...
And Agnes Chose to Die
Agnes, despite her age and her physical condition, is a tireless worker. Her husband, Palita, is forced to stay at home because of his...
Johnny the Partisan
From Langhe's snowy hills to the movie screen, the ardous journey of Johnny the partisan covers more than half a century of literature and...
Dangerous Liaisons
There is a deplorable opinion, rooted so deeply in modern readers’ tastes to become an untouchable myth. It states that epistolary novels – whose...
A Farewell to Arms
From the very beginning we can guess how much faithfull Frank Borzage's film will be according to the famous novel by Ernest Hemingway. The...
Blue is the Warmest Color
Blue is the Warmest Color is Julie Maroh's first novel. A graphic novel showing a first work's tipical flaws, but that finds its strengths...
The Tenant
I knew of Roland Topor from his work in graphics. I had been always interested in his dark, surreal, cynically satirical, noir, but brilliant...
The Remains of Nothing
In one of the last issues of Inkroci I referred to the book/movie Harold and Maude as to a ‘little miracle’, since the movie...
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Ra Sh – The Narcissist
All his mirrors were women.
They displayed him with breasts
and vaginas and flesh buds.
Desperate,
he approached a blue lake
to see his male splendor.
His cock-a-doodle-do
his rippling muscles
his...
Ra Sh – Andro and Estro
Androgen and Estrogen
met over a cup of Energen.
You know how macho
Androgen is.
And how feminine
Estrogen is.
Androgen complained:
These males are...
Ra Sh
Ra Sh (Ravi Shanker N) has published English-language poems in many national and international online and print magazines. His poems have been translated into German and...
Baret Magarian: The secret to a good narrative is to always keep things moving...
This interview with Baret Magarian was conducted mainly in Italian. I have to confess that I wasn’t able to persude him to talk about...
Michael Rothenberg – Coming Apart
If it were a real dream
the roses would
come apart.
