Pocket Reviews

Our costumary raving Fabri Fiacca and Denis Venturi create twelve novels halfway between genres and selecting surreal registers. Reality is presented through paradoxical and grotesque tones,...

The book, a fake autobiography, tells the story of Claudius' life from his childhood until the day he is proclaimed emperor. A very appropriate literary...

An intense perception of the world  Arthur is a lonely man, who is at the mercy of his obesity; Kel is a young budding baseball...

 An odd saga Texas, 1909.   While the saga of the West  is quite over,  an eccentric rag-tag band wanders from city to city in a...

A precious stone of shinig ethic In order to fully enjoy this precious literary gem, we must undertake a small task, which entails going beyond...

A difficult coming-on-age Summer 1988.  A terrible crime rocks the already difficult lives of an Indian reserve in North Dakota. Joe, the thirteen year-old main character,...

War as an experience Eisner, through the collection “War stories”, brings the reader to Vietnam and to Korea with reports told in first person by...

Suffering without rhetoric One day in the month of August 1981, Barbara Garlaschelli, who is both the author and the main character of this novel,...

High Anxiety Mysteries A ship's doctor thinks he has permanently buried his past but a creepy young lady, who apparently is also a gifted psychic,...

Breath of emptiness The characters of this collection of short stories act in the glorious America of the 30s between New York and Chicago. They...