Pocket Reviews

  Our anxious present, the ominous future An appalling analysis of our present time and of what we have to expect, strongly anticipating (the essay is...

A Vintage classic A classic ‘Chase style’ novel, in which noir and hard-boiled blend into a crime fiction plot that leaves the reader breathless until...

  Precious advice from an old uncle A classic essay of the high school years, always quoted and heard quoted, but taken up again only decades...

  Great story, great storyteller A novel made up of fragments, as is usual in De Luca, which alternates pearls of wisdom and life’s events in...

Professor Renzo, the Obscure One of the tomes of the colossal biography of Benito Mussolini, this volume is about the fall in popularity of the...

A Simenon to discover A noir with a decidedly American flavour. A “road story” where the reader is swept along with the protagonist, in a...

  A reading that leaves no impression An all too simple story which tells of a daughter’s revenge on her oppressing mother. Parallel to "Lady Jane"...

A musty portrait Written in the Twenties, this work has a nineteenth-century structure. The plot, all too predictable in its development, revolves around the figure...