Tag: Giorgia Boragini
Mika Waltari – The Dark Angel
The end of an era
1453: Constantinople is going to fall into Turkish hands. It’s the end of an era. Among the fatalistic desperation of...
Erri De Luca – In the Name of the Mother
We are all Miriàm
"In the name of the Father" inaugurates the Sign of the Cross. In the name of the mother inaugurates life: with...
Giorgia Boragini – The strange case of Elda Rodriguez
The day they would kill her, Elda Rodriguez woke up at 6 am, after a night of hazy dreams. An unresolved dream left a...
Elizabeth Gaskell – North and South
Heart has its reasons
A point of contact and a synthesis between opposites is not possible in the name of sense or interest, but only...
Erri de Luca – In the name of the mother
We are all Miriàm
“In the name of the father”: marks the beginning of the sign of the cross whereas In the name of the...
Erri De Luca – Not now, not here
Life in memories
Not now, not here, Erri de Luca’s debut work, introduces the reader to a poetic style that, during the years, has become...
Mary McCarthy – The Group
Sex and the City has not invented anything
McCarthy shows the reader, with courtesy and irony, the first steps into adulthood of eight girls who...
Steve Tesich – Karoo
It’s a wrap, Karoo!
The American dream has a comically dark side, which Oscar-worthy screenwriter Steve Tesich reveals through the disillusioned eyes of the protagonist....
Lilia Carlota Lorenzo – The She-Butcher’s Coat
Lilia Carlota Lorenzo offers us an expertly crafted work, starting from the very cover which is, frankly speaking, unsettling. But who cares about the...
Kate Christiansen – The Epicure’s Lament
Tough life for Epicureans
Christiansen’s work is not a masterpiece, but it’s still a good book. Hugo Whittier is the kind of likeable and cynical...
