Tag: Roma O’Flaherty
Grazia Deledda – Reeds in the Wind
Efix’s attachment
What lingers after reading this novel is the rugged and sunny landscape of Sardinia, to which the author devotes intense descriptive interludes. Against...
The Who – Tommy
Tommy? Yes, indeed. If not the first, then certainly one of the first rock operas, and surely the greatest of them all, whose fame...
Gore Vidal – Julian
Why we can call ourselves pagans
In choosing to recount the life of Julian, Vidal is singing a hymn to the values of the ancient...
Leonardo Sciascia – To Each His Own
When the detective story is a chronicle of our times
An anonymous letter, a double murder, a mysterious secondary school teacher who plays detective: these...
Giorgio Olivari – The promised future
The rumble of the locomotive accompanies the cadenced rhythm of the wagons that, like jan-gling bells, resound at every junction of the rails. The...
Future? What kind of future? – Interview with the writer Italo...
An interview with the writer Italo Bonera (author of the books Ph0xGen!, I'm not like you - Io non sono come voi, and Heaven...
BiG HeRO 6
After his brother dies in an accident, young Hiro inherits his science project - a medical robot named Baymax with a pot belly, no...
Ian McEwan – Amsterdam
A novel that spills over the paranormal
The story begins with a young woman’s funeral and continues through her lover’s adventures after the ceremony. The...
The Long Night of 1943
Florestano Vancini (1926-2008) made a fine debut as a director with a movie based on one of the “Five stories from Ferrara” (Cinque storie...