Libera nos a malo
10 best books like Libera nos a malo (Luigi Meneghello): The Late Mattia Pascal, History, The Path to the Spiders' Nests, Survival in Auschwitz, Comme un roman, Vita Nuova, The Loser, The Paul Street Boys, L'Agnese va a morire, Io uccido
| Author | Luigi Pirandello |
| ISBN | 1590171152 |
Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as...
| Author | Elsa Morante |
| ISBN | 1586420046 |
History was written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hiding among remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition to write an account of what history - the great political events...
The Path to the Spiders' Nests
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 0060956585 |
Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at a seedy bar where he amuses the adult...
| Author | Primo Levi |
| ISBN | 0684826801 |
The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Auschwitz and his miraculous survival; hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a “true work of art, this edition includes an exclusive conversation between the author and Philip Roth.
In...
First line: "You can't make someone read. Just as you can't make them fall in love or dream..." First U.S. edition of an eloquent defense of (among other things) the right to dip, skip and flip reading choices---available for many years in the UK, due out on this side of the Pond in November (but there are...
| Author | Dante Alighieri |
| ISBN | 0192839357 |
Vita Nuova (1292-94) is regarded as one of Dante's most profound creations. The thirty-one poems in the first of his major writings are linked by a lyrical prose narrative celebrating and debating the subject of love. Composed upon Dante's meeting with Beatrice and the "Lord of Love," it is a love story...
| Author | Thomas Bernhard |
| ISBN | 1400077540 |
Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift for lacerating, lyrical, provocative prose is incomparably his own.
One of Bernhard's most...
| Author | Ferenc Molnár |
| ISBN | 9631345343 |
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I think that my age is above the target group of this book, but that surely did not stop me from enjoying it. To a certain degree. That is, knowing beforehand that it’s a children’s book, I was a bit shocked by the ending.
However, the style...
| Author | Renata Viganò |
| ISBN | 8806134884 |
Renata Viganò ha scritto una «cronaca» che ha l'esatta semplicitá di pensieri e gesti quotidiani, in uno stile sobrio che pure rivela una sottile educazione letteraria nella definizione di fuggevoli stati d'animo, nella descrizione di sfumati paesaggi di pianure e di lagune; e tutto si sostiene...
| Author | Giorgio Faletti |
| ISBN | 8884902231 |
Un dee-jay di Radio Monte Carlo riceve, durante la sua trasmissione notturna, una telefonata delirante. Uno sconosciuto, dalla voce artefatta, rivela di essere un assassino. Il fatto viene archiviato come uno scherzo di pessimo gusto. Il giorno dopo un pilota di Formula Uno e la sua compagna vengono...
