Family sagas have always been the genre that most resonates with me. There’s something about the chorus of voices, the interweaving of intertwining and intersecting stories and themes, that can overwhelm me like a raging river. I love losing myself in that powerful chaos, that emotional richness that only great family narratives can offer. The story of the Li family is one of them: it shocks and heals, just as any saga worthy of the...
“…the idea belongs to whoever develops it, and I will pretend I never had this idea of becoming a startupper.” The book is a collection of stories (we can’t say whether they’re autobiographical or free reworkings of stories the author heard), some of which appeared as newspaper articles, others unpublished, written during his long stay in California. This long period allowed Masneri to gather life experiences and testimonies that help us understand the American world,...
“Ideas don’t die, sometimes they sleep and then wake up stronger than before.” A well-known book, its fame is directly proportional to the number of people who have actually read it from cover to cover. Perhaps this is one of the reasons that prompted us to re-read this classic. The protagonist is Edmond Dantès, a very young sailor who is unjustly imprisoned on the eve of his promotion to captain of a ship and his...
“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...
