Tag: Clara Arosio
Clara Arosio – Perspectives and characters in Fruttero’s and Lucentini’s crime...
Parallel investigation
In this essay, Clara Arosio studies two books – The Sunday Woman (Harcourt Brace, 1973) and A che punto è la notte – ...
Beppe Fenoglio – A Private Affair
Love and war: two words that seem to contradict each other. However, never have they managed to coexist so harmoniously as in this book. After...
Ruth Rendell – Heartstones
A refined novella with a nineteenth century feel
A gloomy adolescent, a little sister who sees ghosts, a scholarly father, the backdrop of a bleak...
Gilles Leroy – Alabama Song
The obscenity of love
It’s incrediblehow a man can put himself in a woman’s shoes with the effectiveness of Gilles Leroy.
Reading this fictional biography about...
Lisa Biggi – Firemen don’t come out for women in tears
Futility
These nine short stories by Lisa Biggi unfold in a time suspended between the expectations of our existence and the disillusionments of the present,...
Compañeros (1970)
Compañeros is a revolutionary tortilla-western directed by Sergio Corbucci, considered a specialist in this genre after the success of Django (1966) played by...
Tess Gallagher – Black violets
Black violets is a collection of seven short stories and fortynine poems.
It’s a book born on a dangerous tree: the family connection with Raymond...
Marco Vichi – Death in Florence
To Die of boredom in Florence
In "Death in Florence" by Marco Vichi it is clear from the very beginning that the investigation conducted by...
Giorgio Scerbanenco – Europe, a Lot of Love
What happens when your dad sends you home alone?
Is a chaffeur not exactly a gentlemen? With a wack of a handbag the good-for-nothing is...
Giuliano Bugani – How a Love Story Could Have Been
Unresolved loves
Included in the collection “The unresolved”, this book by Giuliano Bugani presents two long stories. The first, which provides the title of the...