Il gioco del rovescio

5 best books like Il gioco del rovescio (Antonio Tabucchi): The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young, At Last, Fiore di poesia, Histoire de la violence

The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

Author	Oscar Wilde
ISBN	0486270726

Born in Dublin in 1854, Oscar Wilde dazzled the salons of his day with supremely witty conversation and his ardent championship of a philosophy of aestheticism. As a writer, he produced The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the finest comedies in English, and other classic plays. His one novel, The...

If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

Author	Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN	1480537373

Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers of his time. For each occasion, Vonnegut’s words were unfailingly unique, insightful, and witty, and they stayed with audience members long after graduation.

As edited by Dan Wakefield,...

At Last

Author	Edward St. Aubyn
ISBN	0330435906

As friends, relatives and foes trickle in to pay their final respects to his mother Eleanor, Patrick Melrose finds himself questioning whether a life without parents will be the liberation he has so long imagined. Yet as the memorial service ends and the family gathers one last time, amidst the social...

Fiore di poesia

Author	Alda Merini
ISBN	8806173774

La strazio che diventa genio.
L'amore e il dolore, la bellezza.
A seguire un componimento, LE OSTERIE

A me piacciono gli
anfratti bui
delle osterie
dormienti,
dove la gente culmina
nell'eccesso del canto,
a me piacciono le cose
bestemmiate e leggere,
e...

Histoire de la violence

Author	Édouard Louis
ISBN	2021177785

J’ai rencontré Reda un soir de Noël. Je rentrais chez moi après un repas avec des amis, vers quatre heures du matin. Il m’a abordé dans la rue et j’ai fini par lui proposer de monter dans mon studio. Ensuite, il m’a raconté l’histoire de son enfance et celle de l’arrivée en France de son...