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All Agota Kristof’s motifs
Even with a very thin plot, Agota Kristof manages to set up a very short novel that knows how...
Ennio Flaiano – A Time to Kill
The misadventures of an Italian settler
Wandering in search of a doctor to nurse his toothache, an Italian lieutenant walks away from the battlefield and...
Philip Roth – Portnoy’s Complaint
A nearly frantic irony
The recent passing of Pulitzer Prize’s recipient Philip Roth, who is also considered the most important contemporary American writer, has brought...
Miriam Bonetti – Mukarib
My name is Mukarib, but everyone calls me Mucca. Not Muka, but Mucca, just as the animal who lives in the barn and makes...
Luigi Meneghello – The Little Teachers
A Resistance that palpitates with humanity
Luigi Meneghello tells his own experience during the first years of the war of Liberation, when still those who...
Serge Quadruppani – The Politics of Fear
None other than our world
In his essay The politics of fear, what Serge Quadrupani shows us, as Wu Ming 1 say in the preface,...
Ilona Jerger – And Marx kept silent in Darwin’s garden
A novel that tells, with frequent flash-backs, the last years of two of the most important minds of the nineteenth century: Charles Darwin and...
Nicoletta Vallorani – Wolf Eyes
A Parable against prejudices
The young Inuit Azùl wants to avenge the death of a friend killed by the Motherless, fierce and mysterious beings who...
Vittorio Curtoni – White on black
How can you die
White on black presents nine short stories of Vittorio Curtoni, a great master of Italian science fiction, preceded by a masterly...
Nicoletta Vallorani – Like a Whale
The value of “whaleness”
The dolphin Ciro saves (or maybe not) the whale Alice, orphaned following the escape of the mother in front of the...
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Barbara Ungar – Your Mother Serves Tongue
How could you
put another creature’s tongue
into your mouth? How could you
bite, chew, swallow?
Cannibal. Obscene.
How could you
tell the difference
between a cow’s tongue and its delicious
rump?...
