Tag: Giorgio Olivari
Marguerite Duras – Blue Eyes, Black Hair
The indefiniteness of love
Emotions that chase each other on a stage made of nothing. Gestures told with great elegance and care, without a defined...
Giorgio Olivari – Zuava
Elide was born in 1926. Born a fascist.
She was the daughter of a railway worker, who had been obliged to become a National Fascist...
John Williams – Augustus
The human aspect of power
Considering the large number of people who have discovered John Williams’s writing through his most famous novel, Stoner, this “new”...
Russell Hoban – The Mouse and his child
Not only a children's fairytale
The mouse and his child written by Russel Hoban is not a children’s fairytale. It is the story of...
Giorgio Olivari – Nenad
Grandma went to town yesterday and never came back. What happened? I don’t know.
Alma tells me not to worry. She says: “Don’t be scared,...
Mauro Covacich – The Bride
Seventeen stories of admirable normality
This collection of seventeen stories features, among them, attacks perpetrated by an ordinary family man with a passion for...
Francesco Piccolo – The Desire to Be like Everyone
The right to be happy like everyone
This book is neither a novel nor an essay, it’s a work that with brightness, and a very...
Giorgio Olivari – Do you remember?
Do you remember the interview day at the bank? Yes, when we met the director in the management offices, up at the last floor....
Liz Moore – Heft
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...
Isaac Asimov – The End of Eternity
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...