Tag: Inkroci 23
Ring Lardner – Out of breath
Breath of emptiness
The characters of this collection of short stories act in the glorious America of the 30s between New York and Chicago. They...
Silvia Accorrà – Each crime and every kindness
"... and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future".
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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...
David Valentini – It’s the law
It’s been twenty years today. I almost forgot. Had you not been interviewed today maybe I would have never thought about that. Look how...
Henry James – The Middle Years
A promise not kept
March 1st. 1869. Henry James arrived in Liverpool and, had a sudden whim to go London, the city with which he...
Rogelio Iriarte – The Prince of Death
The ambiguous intertwining between good and evil
"I need your help to turn myself in".
An old man tells this to a journalist called Arsenio Cabrales.
"Being...
John Dickson Carr – The Crooked Hinge
Murders and witchcraft
A rich English squire who miraculously survived the sinking of the Titanic - and is haunted by weird nightmares - is accused...
Elaine Feeney – The Harvest
There is nothing in the old Tuam beet factory only a greasy
fluthering of Natterer’s bats and some gnawing weasels.
Once the full silos were emptied...
Cataldo Russo – Don Pietraviva’s Fences
“Don Pietraviva’s fences” is a milestone of Italian fiction, a choral fresco which relates the fate of the poor. Central to the novel is...
Ruth Rendell – The Second Wexford Omnibus
The irresistible Wexford
People like Wexford because he’s not pleasing: he’s got a potbelly and sometimes he’s arrogant in showing off his culture, especially the...
