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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Barbara Ungar – Après Moi
Let them eat storms
Let them eat fire
Let them eat drones
Let them eat lies
Let them eat bump stocks
Let them eat coal
Let them eat bullets
Let them...
Barbara Ungar – Ars poetica
I love to comb
a poem the way
girls do their dolls’
hair singing
as I brushed
and braided mane
and tail curried
every inch
of the pony
I owned only
in words and...
Barbara Ungar – Call Me Medusa
Some years ago, when I had braces
and headgear, I’d pull my hair
through the openings in the cap
contraption so as not to flatten
the curls. Hence...
Barbara Ungar
Barbara Ungar’s fifth book, Save Our Ship, winner of the Richard Snyder Memorial Prize from Ashland Poetry Press, was named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best...
Barbara Ungar – Save Our Ship
Barbara Ungar’s impressively wide-ranging collection is prefaced with two aptly chosen epigraphs which serve to introduce the philosophical terrains across which many of these...
