Tag: Stefano Bragato
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...