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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
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Two Women
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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...
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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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Alexander Shurbanov – Waiting for Schliemann
Everything I’ve written
has its whereabouts
in spacetime.
Not a word is invented,
not a sound.
If one day a Schliemann
rakes the dust of the ages,
Troy the unconquerable
will...
What propels poetry into being is amazement: conversation with Alexander Shurbanov
I met Alexander Shurbanov in Sofia during the summer of 2016, on the occasion of a brief visit to the capital of Bulgaria connected...
Alexander Shurbanov
Alexander Shurbanov (Sofia, 1941) is author of many books of poems and essays. He has translated into Bulgarian Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare’s mature...
Aoife Casby – […]
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Beginning with desire the text was made.
Sex.
Ex.
The thing is to write and not to be afraid.
X.
The resistible idea of kissing. Starts in belly, locks...
Shaun Bythell – The Diary of a Bookseller
This is a funny and enthralling diary of a Scottish second-hand bookseller and his encounters with strange clients and bizarre co-workers. Very often, it’s...
