Tag: Matteo Ciucci
Vittorio Curtoni – White on black
How can you die
White on black presents nine short stories of Vittorio Curtoni, a great master of Italian science fiction, preceded by a masterly...
Robert A. Heinlein – The moon is a harsh mistress
How a revolution is born
In 2075 the moon is used as a penal colony by the Terrans, where all types of scum are exiled....
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....
Vittorio Curtoni – Where are we flying
A novel, six short stories and an autobiography
An unusual anthology collecting a novel, six short stories, an autobiography, a daily journal of the author...
Ted Hughes – The Iron Man
The illusions of educational fairy tales
Written in 1968, this cloying, pacifist tale is pleasing to read, but mostly trivial in content and, particularly, in...
Matteo Ciucci – The cost of a living
Murray Sand and his wife Clara were waiting, sitting on the sofa of their living room. Murray was tapping mechanically with his heel...
Emmanuel Carrère – The Adversary
With few exceptions, all Emmanuel Carrère’s major works could be classified as a unique autobiography realized under the pretext of narrating other people’s biographies....
Donald Barthelme – Snow White
An Uncategorizable Novel
A novel that proceeds by fragments (the only form that Donald Barthelme said he could trust), which are narrated by an individual...
Silvio Donà – It’s an iPhone that, isn’t it?
Scene: the crowded compartment of a (filthy, need I say it?) Italian train.
A guy in jeans and a casual jacket is trying to cut...
Leonardo Sciascia – Todo modo
A spider web in the empty space
A masterpiece including almost all of the major Sciascia’s poetics’ subjects , presented in a gloomy and...
