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Fabrizio De André – Storia di un impiegato [A Clerk’s Tale]

  Storia di un impiegato, the sixth studio LP by Fabrizio De André, written with Giuseppe Bentivoglio and Nicola Piovani, came out in 1973. Like...

Valerio Evangelisti – At Alphaville’s Periphery

  That amazing Evangelisti! This is a collection of thrilling essays, that, touching upon modernity and its (lack of) literary expression in Italy, deals with literature...

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...

Valerio Evangelisti – One Big Union

A tale in between/A link between Antracite (Anthracite) and Noi saremo tutto (We shall be everything), One Big Union talks about/deals with the fights...

Nocturnal Animals

Susan (Amy Adams) is an unhappy gallery owner, imprisoned in the apparent perfection of an upper middle class life. When she returns...

Maurice Walsh – A Quiet Man

During the Irish War of Independence, which ended with the 1921 ceasefire and the institution of the Irish Free State, six men...

Catherine Dunne – The Walled Garden

Beth, who has left Ireland and her family to find her own independence in London, has a divorce behind her and lives a teenager...

Barbara Garlaschelli – Sisters

  Love kills Amelia and Virginia are two sisters living isolated from the rest of the world. Amelia is determined and dominant, Virginia is submissive and...

Georges Simenon – The Sailors’ Rendezvous

  The Deadly Power of Mad Love A tale of amour fou that turns into violence, the petite bourgeois temptations of a well-arranged marriage, a sensual...