Pocket Reviews

  Joy and revolution An extremely fascinating long story, which mixes Christian culture and “The Arabian Nights” into a crucible of familiar references while avoiding sterility...

   Anguish of the Absolute A mysterious and spooky man falls into the life of a young couple and upsets their existences. Short and striking novel that,...

  On the Side of those Who Believed An almost forgotten book from an author who should be reconsidered, it’s the war journal of a young...

The Ivory Tower of Gracq Presumptuous as few, Gracq describes a ménage a trois, often sublimated by the symbolic world, without ever writing a single...

  Those Little Bourgeois A guncotton thriller, with a gallery of cleverly staged characters and a rhythm that manages to captivate from beginning to end despite...

  Topical Entertainment Cynical and rampant Philip Randall, a young New York lawyer, is trapped in the mesh of his own and others' opportunism. Beyond the final...

  Damages of Religious Manichaeism Bierce gives the best of himself in this short novel presented as the diary of a novice who, despite his religion,...

  Even in Vercelli Wolves Kill A love-and-death story between an Italian teacher from the Piedmont region and a young Iranian-born French woman. After their move...

Watercolor railroad Marked by the rattle of trains, Cassola outlines fragments of choral daily life of families and landscapes crossed by the local railroad tracks....

This book was a contender for the Booker Prize 2019, and IMO it should have won. The story is genius, it begins with the...