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Ex cattedra and other school stories

“Correcting Italian homework is a torment. […] read one, you’ve read them all. Three in a row can cause death.” If you have in mind the Starnone of his latest novels, forget him. Form, substance and times belong to another writer (in a figurative sense), the only point of contact between the pen of yesterday and that of today is the ironic component, typical of Neapolitan culture. The book is in fact the disarming transposition...

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Behind the Door

“Misfortune had made a man out of him.” Moving like few other books, capable of touching the dormant childhood within each of us. With this long story, Bassani delves into his memories as a boy, up to take us to the beginning of the school year of 1929-30 in a classical high school, in his beloved Ferrara (the city of Bassani’s heart!). The shyness of the protagonist and a character that has not yet fully...

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La fortuna

The books chosen by Andrea Salonia This review is available only in the original language _________________________________________________________________________ La si ama o la si odia. Non c’è un grigio nei sentimenti che si possono nutrire per Valeria Parrella. Proprio non c’è: è una questione di bianchi o di neri. Lo credo con forza, e per questo son partito con l’amare: io faccio parte di quelli che son stati mosche dentro la pancia di quella sua balena; così...

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The brevity of life

The books chosen by Federica Dagonese This review is available only in the original language _________________________________________________________________________ Due sono le persone nella mia vita con cui riesco a parlare di ciò che leggo liberamente come e quando voglio…e a loro da mesi e mesi ripeto sempre la stessa musica: impegniamoci a leggere la letteratura nuova, quindi le ultime uscite, perché troppo spesso diamo valore solo ai classici. Bene, dopo questa recensione penso di non meritare più la loro amicizia!...

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The little freedoms

The books chosen by Federica Dagonese This review is available only in the original language _________________________________________________________________________ Oliva è una trentenne in cerca di sé stessa e quindi del proprio futuro e della sua felicità. A prima vista è una normalissima donna, perché se la guardiamo ha un lavoro da precaria, un brillante fidanzato che sta anche per sposare e una normalissima famiglia. Insomma, vista così Oliva è un campione preso a caso delle trentenni dei...

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What matters is scratching under my armpits

“FRIDAY RE-VERSO” “No one has ever come out to say – Christ, I’m sick as hell – Nobody, do you understand?” The book opens with a long preface by Fernanda Pivano who with expert wisdom explains why and how Bukowski became a giant of literature: if this is what you want to learn more about, read her, which is better. Is she not nice to you? We too, although, far from any sympathy or antipathy, her merit as cultural ferryman...

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Margherita Dolcevita

“Only dead fish go with the current.” Sweet, attentive, unscrupulous, acute. A text that is read with pleasure and that makes you happy in reading. In the same way the protagonist (and how could she not be otherwise?), Margherita Dolcevita has a nickname that characterizes (at least in Italian language) her both emotionally and physically, the usual clever pun that the author has accustomed us to in his books. Margherita is a fourteen-year-old teenager, full...

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Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“Things that don’t matter to some can be as terrible as death to others.” Book divided into two stories detached from each other Hard Boiled and Hard Luck (hence the title H/H). Although indirectly in contrast to the setting, characters and family relationships, the background theme links the two stories: the world of the afterlife, and the attempt to move forward despite the inner pain. In the first story, the protagonist is a young girl...

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Teeth

“How many secrets hide the people with whom we spend life.” A quarrel for futile reasons in a couple, the violent gesture of the woman who with an ashtray breaks the incisors teeths of her partner, and a bottomless pit of memories and obsessions and fears and doubts that opens under the feet of our protagonist, now a name toothless. An “open mouth” journey – if you let us pass the joke – inside and...

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The book of houses

“…this is how the House of Memories opens, but too late for “I” to get inside.” Who are we really? No one better than the places in which we live, or have lived, can tell us better. They are there, motionless or semi-mobile, looking at us, welcoming us, watching us grow, live and observe us as we sometimes leave. “The book of houses” is for us a successful literary experiment to tell the story of...