Tag: Chiara Canova
Toto – Falling in Between
The album which marks the end of the career for Toto (but at the time of publication Steve Lukather had not yet decided to...
Heiko H. Caimi – Sick Earth
I came home in the evening, while long shadows were extending between the buildings, bridging at dusk. I crossed the main street and slipped...
Seumas O’Kelly – Waysiders. Stories of Connacht
Waysiders is a path. At the same time, it is an extremely strong emotional experience, a way of knowing late nineteenth century Ireland, an...
Slavonic Tales on The Sacrifice of the Son
The Bulgarian story The three brothers and God invites us to reflect on how the character of oral literature is both transnational and specifically...
Lara Gregori – A Thread, A Dream
He could see himself as a child sitting on a rock beside the fire while his mother, her veil lifted and her nails black...
Character
In Rotterdam in the Twenties, young lawyer Jacob Katadreuffe, still an apprentice, is arrested despite claiming to be innocent of murder. He’s accused of...
Robert Graves – The Scream (The Shout)
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,...
Giuseppe Berto – Blackshirt War (Guerra in camicia nera)
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...
From Inquisition to Tortuga – Interview with Valerio Evangelisti
When we wrote to ask him for an interview, Valerio Evangelisti not only was exquisitely available, but he even invited us to lunch with...
Julien Gracq – In Argol Castle (Chateau d’Argol)
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...