Le libere donne di Magliano
9 best books like Le libere donne di Magliano (Mario Tobino): The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year, Il visconte dimezzato, I Malavoglia, The Flamethrowers, Outline, Embers, Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
| Author | Giorgio Bassani |
| ISBN | 1400044227 |
Giorgio Bassani's acclaimed novel of unrequited love and the plight of the Italian Jews on the brink of World War II has become a classic of modern Italian literature.
Made into an Academy Award winning film in 1970, "The Garden of the Finzi Continis "is a richly evocative and nostalgic depiction...
Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
| Author | Carlo Levi |
| ISBN | 0374530092 |
It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to Italy's Fascist government at the start of the Ethiopian war in 1935. While there, Levi reflected on the harsh...
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 8804370874 |
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Il narratore rievoca la storia dello zio, Medardo di Torralba, che, combattendo in Boemia contro i Turchi, è tagliato a metà da un colpo di cannone. Le due parti del corpo, perfettamente conservate, mostrano diversi caratteri:...
| Author | Giovanni Verga |
| ISBN | 8811582962 |
Nei Malavoglia (1881) Verga si immerge nella realtà locale di un paese siciliano, Aci Trezza, e racconta la semplice e rissosa quotidianità in cui vivono i Toscano, detti appunto i Malavoglia. Avvertendo come poco espressive le realtà borghesi, Verga cerca di rompere l'impianto romanzesco classico,...
| Author | Rachel Kushner |
| ISBN | 1439142009 |
The year is 1975 and Reno—so-called because of the place of her birth—has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in the art world—artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo, are staging...
| Author | Rachel Cusk |
| ISBN | 0571233627 |
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives.
Beginning with the neighbouring passenger...
| Author | Sándor Márai |
| ISBN | 0375707425 |
Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs.
In a secluded woodland castle...
| Author | Slavoj Žižek |
| ISBN | 0822313952 |
In the space of barely more than five years, with the publication of four pathbreaking books, Slavoj Žižek has earned the reputation of being one of the most arresting, insightful, and scandalous thinkers in recent memory. Perhaps more than any other single author, his writings have constituted...
| Author | Theodor W. Adorno |
| ISBN | 0804736332 |
Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface,...
