Tag: Roma O’Flaherty
Piergiorgio Odifreddi – The Gospel According to Science. Religions to the...
The pontificating atheist
The author, who usually feels a great sense of self-satisfaction when is fond of appearing in on TV talk shows, loves to...
George Mackay Brown – Greenvoe
What is the difference between community and society? As individuals, we recognize that we are part of a society, but every time we reflect...
Jonathan Safran Foer – Everything is Illuminated
A book full of (broken) promises
It is not always easy to disentangle the two plots making up the story of this novel, which deals...
Gérard de Nerval – The Tale of Caliph Hakim
Joy and revolution
An extremely fascinating long story, which mixes Christian culture and “The Arabian Nights” into a crucible of familiar references while avoiding sterility...
From Inquisition to Tortuga – Interview with Valerio Evangelisti Part II
Here you can find the conclusion of the long interview that Valerio Evangelisti, with delightful willingness, accepted to yield us. The first part can...
Giorgio Olivari – Queen
She wears an immaculate shirt, her long neck hidden by a coloured foulard: natural green and warm blue splashed with red. Very French.
She is...
Ada Gobetti – Partisan Diary: A Woman’s Life in the Italian...
The brave everyday life of the Resistance
Ada Prospero was the wife of Piero Gobetti, an Italian journalist and politician who, in 1926, died very...
His Excellency Stopped Here For Lunch
His Excellency Stopped Here for Lunch (1961) directed by Mario Mattòli is a sex comedy starring Totò, Ugo Tognazzi, Raimondo Vianello, Francesco Mulè, Virna...
Stig Dagerman – German Autumn
This short novel can without doubt be defined as journalism; it is, however, a kind of journalism we are not accustomed to, a journalism...
Andrea Peirone – In Spirits
A large crowd of disciples had gathered on the high-backed chairs of an old theatre and curiously leaned forward towards the centre of the...