“Vladimir feels he has an extra card in the deck, that his existence is rigged, that all he has to do to make it worth living is apply his own will.” Who is Vladimir Demikhov? And why dedicate a book to him? Good, excellent questions. But the most appropriate would be: why read it? Well, indeed. “Vladimir Petrovich Demikhov (1916-1998) – Soviet surgeon and researcher: one of the most renowned pioneers of organ transplantation; commonly...
Written by Laura Giuffrè This review is available only in the original language. Tipologia: albo illustrato Età consigliata: 2-3 anni “Un giorno nel Bosco di Pratorosso ci fu un’accesa discussione fra gli animali…” E’ che comincia la favola di Antonella Abbatiello incentrata sulla diversità e sull’importanza di ciascun individuo che è unico e speciale. *** Tutti gli animali riuniti in assemblea si pongono la stessa domanda “Qual è la cosa più importante?” Avere le...
“In the evening he read stories aloud to me […] and during the day he taught me how to do a handstand, because he absolutely wanted to make me see the world upside down.” Just a tip: open the book to the first page and read it aloud, steadily. We’re faced with a precise frame, like in a movie, and the camera frames, piece by piece, individual parts of a scene that we miraculously manage...
This book was given to me with a simple dedication: “To those who melted the snow.” Since then, it has become one of those books that you never really leave — that live silently in your heart. And I assure you that it will also melt the snow that perhaps you didn’t know you were carrying around with you. The amazing journey you will immerse yourself in, in fact, will not only be within the...
“FRIDAY RE-VERSO” “Now everything was different. Nothing was pre-established anymore, everything had to be redone.” Many people these days may have read “Confini di classe” (Feltrinelli, 2025), the small collection of essays by Lea Ypi, in which the author technically but passionately addresses the double knot that links the class question to that of citizenship. Reading “Libera”, her autobiographical novel published a few years ago, perhaps helps to understand how one can arrive at...
“The fear of abandonment has led to not evolving, to stopping the engine, to not graduating, to not obtaining the best result.” This is a warning: if you have unfinished business with the past, or even a difficulty in relating to family affections, this book is for you. It is perhaps even more so for those who do not deny having them. The text was created in our opinion to make people reflect, to have...
The midday thread marks the second stage of the Autobiography of Contradictions, the monumental interior journey in five stations in which the Italian author Goliarda Sapienza lays herself bare. A descent into the underworld of identity, where each page is a step towards dissolution and rebirth, in the never-ending attempt to contain an uncontrollable life. In this second volume, Sapienza narrates the delicate and tormented path of psychoanalysis undertaken with Dr. Majore following her first...
“More than a [love] story it was a short story, a discount flyer.” Fresh and fun book. Despite being released in 2023, it remains current in many passages in which it addresses the hypocrisies of contemporary society, and we think it can remain so for many more years to come. A very useful text to detach from the heaviness of everyday life, and give yourself more than one smile. Understanding that you don’t have to...
“I dedicate this book to those who think that asking questions is the first step to finding answers, to those who think that the right answers are never easy…” Seven chapters of analysis and vision on seven problems that the human race must face in the medium term, but which at best aim to procrastinate. Global issues, but also more specifically domestic ones, for which everyone is involved. Unlike other essays, here however, solutions are...
Neorealist novel, partisan short story, proto-feminist diary, psychological memoir and metanarrative reflection on writing: all this – and much more – is Dalla parte di lei. First published in 1949 by Mondadori, in the heart of an Italy still stunned by the end of fascism and the war, Alba de Céspedes’s novel remains a marginalized work in the official canon (still all-male), despite its anticipatory force and its profoundly modern voice. Like many novels written...
