Tag: Davide Spagnoli
The Piano Teacher
Erika
Kohut is an excellent middle-aged piano teacher at a Vienna music conservatory. Despite her mature
age Erika’s life is constantly controlled, day after...
Massimo Carlotto – Nothing, nothing more in the world
Main character: a
middle-aged mother. Secondary characters: her husband, her daughter. Location: a working-class neighborhood in Turin. Time: today.
Massimo...
Bonvi and Francesco Guccini – Stories of Deep Space
Francesco Guccini’s raids in comics art ain’t uncommons, aid and abet his own friends like Magnus, Andrea Pazienza and Bonvi himself often assisted Guccini....
Catherine Dunne – The Walled Garden
Beth, who has left Ireland and her family to find her own independence in London, has a divorce behind her and lives a teenager...
Erri de Luca – Vinaigrette, rainbow
Like a seed
Sometimes a life contains many other lives. In this novel, De Luca uses four lives and a house to tell just one....
Walter Tevis – Mockingbird
Poetic Dystopia
The novel is set in a discouraging and profetic scenario - a run-down New York City, where people are uncultured and living in...
Erri de Luca – The Sky in a Stall
Like a verdict
«In his generation debacle there was a powerfuljustice hand, in the scourge there was a judgement to read. They were defeat to...
Fabri Fiacca and Denis Venturi – Stories of extraordinary laziness
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,...
George R. R. Martin – Fevre Dream
Louisiana, 1857. Abner Marsh, a renowned steamboat captain educated on the Mississippi river, founds himself beggared because of a series of unfortunate events, which...
Four times that night (1968)
This is an unusual Mario Bava’s movie (Sanremo, 1914- Rome, 1980) , one of our biggest horror and imaginary author, that is specialized in...