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Book Synopsis That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana by : Carlo Emilio Gadda
Download or read book That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana written by Carlo Emilio Gadda and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2007-02-27 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a large apartment house in central Rome, two crimes are committed within a matter of days: a burglary, in which a good deal of money and precious jewels are taken, and a murder, as a young woman whose husband is out of town is found with her throat cut. Called in to investigate, melancholy Detective Ciccio, a secret admirer of the murdered woman and a friend of her husband’s, discovers that almost everyone in the apartment building is somehow involved in the case, and with each new development the mystery only deepens and broadens. Gadda’s sublimely different detective story presents a scathing picture of fascist Italy while tracking the elusiveness of the truth, the impossibility of proof, and the infinite complexity of the workings of fate, showing how they come into conflict with the demands of justice and love. Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Alberto Moravia all considered That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana to be the great modern Italian novel. Unquestionably, it is a work of universal significance and protean genius: a rich social novel, a comic opera, an act of political resistance, a blazing feat of baroque wordplay, and a haunting story of life and death.
Book Synopsis The Experience of Pain by : Carlo Emilio Gadda
Download or read book The Experience of Pain written by Carlo Emilio Gadda and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are what Gadda wants to depict' Italo Calvino At the height of Fascist rule in Italy and following the death of his mother, Carlo Emilio Gadda began work on his first novel, The Experience of Pain. This portrait of a highly educated young man whose anger and frustration frequently erupt in ferocious outbursts directed towards his ageing mother is a powerful critique of the society of his time and the deep wounds inflicted on his generation. Set in a fictional South American country, The Experience of Pain is at once richly imaginative and intensely personal: the perfect introduction to Gadda's innovative style and literary virtuosity. Translated by Richard Dixon
Book Synopsis Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio by : Amara Lakhous
Download or read book Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio written by Amara Lakhous and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The immigrant tenants of a building in Rome offer skewed accounts of a murder in this prize-winning satire by the Algerian-born Italian author (Publishers Weekly). Piazza Vittorio is home to a polyglot community of immigrants who have come to Rome from all over the world. But when a tenant is murdered in the building’s elevator, the delicate balance is thrown into disarray. As each of the victim’s neighbors is questioned by the police, readers are offered an all-access pass into the most colorful neighborhood in contemporary Rome. With language as colorful as the neighborhood it describes, each character takes his or her turn “giving evidence.” Their various stories reveal much about the drama of racial identity and the anxieties of a life spent on society’s margins, but also bring to life the hilarious imbroglios of this melting pot Italian culture. “Their frequently wild testimony teases out intriguing psychological and social insight alongside a playful whodunit plot.” —Publishers Weekly
Book Synopsis That Awful Mess on Via Merulana : a Novel by : Carlo Emilio Gadda
Download or read book That Awful Mess on Via Merulana : a Novel written by Carlo Emilio Gadda and published by New York : G. Braziller. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Acquainted with Grief by : Carlo Emilio Gadda
Download or read book Acquainted with Grief written by Carlo Emilio Gadda and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 1969 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Acquainted with Grief, written between 1938 and 1941, begins as a charade (what is the significance of the strange mock-Spanish dictatorship that serves as the story's locale: Mussolini's Italy in harmless disguise?). It proceeds sinuously while various provincial characters drift past and around the principal players--Gonzalo, the misanthropic bachelor and his poor fluttery mother caught in a web of social pretensions. By the close there is a terrible cry of death and despair not unworthy of the culmination of a Pirandello play. One can look at this bizarre novel as a symbolic attack on Fascism (later corroborated in Gadda's That Awful Mess on Via Merulana) but, as the introductory note makes clear, Gadda is really working out a private obsession-the Oedipal situation of his own life. And the long sequence where the villagers enter the deserted villa and discover the bloody Senora perhaps "murdered" by her departed son has a hallucinatory poignancy shocking in its nakedness, moral and otherwise. Here Gadda strikes through his lordly mask and speaks with true power." (Kirkus Review, March 1, 1969)
Book Synopsis The Philosophers' Madonna by : Carlo Emilio Gadda
Download or read book The Philosophers' Madonna written by Carlo Emilio Gadda and published by Atlas. This book was released on 2008 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short novel weaves together the lives of Maria Ripamonti, daughter of impoverished aristocrats shivering in a castle, and Engineer Baronfo, a dyspeptic salesman stressed out by years of getting on and off trains, who has turned to collecting antiquarian tomes of philosophy.
Book Synopsis The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by : Tim Parks
Download or read book The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna written by Tim Parks and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Italian Ways returns with an exploration into Italy’s past and present—following in the footsteps of Garibaldi’s famed 250-mile journey across the Apennines. In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy’s legendary revolutionary, was finally forced to abandon his defense of Rome. He and his men had held the besieged city for four long months, but now it was clear that only surrender would prevent slaughter and destruction at the hands of a huge French army. Against all odds, Garibaldi was determined to turn defeat into moral victory. On the evening of July 2, riding alongside his pregnant wife, Anita, he led 4,000 hastily assembled men to continue the struggle for national independence elsewhere. Hounded by both French and Austrian armies, the garibaldini marched hundreds of miles across the Appenines, Italy’s mountainous spine, and after two months of skirmishes and adventures arrived in Ravenna with just 250 survivors. Best-selling author Tim Parks, together with his partner Eleonora, set out in the blazing summer of 2019 to follow Garibaldi and Anita’s arduous journey through the heart of Italy. In The Hero’s Way he delivers a superb travelogue that captures Garibaldi’s determination, creativity, reckless courage, and profound belief. And he provides a fascinating portrait of Italy then and now, filled with unforgettable observations of Italian life and landscape, politics, and people.
Book Synopsis That awful mess on Via Merulana by : Carlo Emilio Gadda
Download or read book That awful mess on Via Merulana written by Carlo Emilio Gadda and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis To Each His Own by : Leonardo Sciascia
Download or read book To Each His Own written by Leonardo Sciascia and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2000-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This letter is your death sentence. To avenge what you have done you will die. But what has Manno the pharmacist done? Nothing that he can think of. The next day he and his hunting companion are both dead.The police investigation is inconclusive. However, a modest high school teacher with a literary bent has noticed a clue that, he believes, will allow him to trace the killer. Patiently, methodically, he begins to untangle a web of erotic intrigue and political calculation. But the results of his amateur sleuthing are unexpected—and tragic. To Each His Own is one of the masterworks of the great Sicilian novelist Leonardo Sciascia—a gripping and unconventional detective story that is also an anatomy of a society founded on secrets, lies, collusion, and violence.
Download or read book The Iguana written by Anna Maria Ortese and published by Kingston, N.Y. : McPherson. This book was released on 1987 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magical novel a count from Milan stumbles upon a desolate community of lost noblemen on an uncharted island off the coast of Portugal. When he discovers, to his astonishment, that their ill-treated servant is in fact a maiden iguana, and then proceeds to fall in love with her, the reader is given a fantastic tale of tragic love and delusion that ranks among the most affecting in contemporary literature. "The reptilian servant is only the first in a series of fantastic touches that tansform the narrative into a satiric fable dense with the echoes of Shakespeare's 'Tempest' and Kafka's 'Metamorphosis.' . . . The Iguana is a superb performance.""€"New York Times Book Review
Book Synopsis Hard Rain Falling by : Don Carpenter
Download or read book Hard Rain Falling written by Don Carpenter and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class—married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.
Download or read book Kaputt written by Curzio Malaparte and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying report from the abyss, which became an international bestseller when it was published after the war. Telling of the siege of Leningrad, of glittering dinner parties with Nazi leaders, and of trains disgorging bodies in war-devastated Romania, Malaparte paints a picture of humanity at its most depraved. Kaputt is an insider's dispatch from the world of the enemy that is as hypnotically fascinating as it is disturbing.
Book Synopsis Black Wings Has My Angel by : Elliott Chaze
Download or read book Black Wings Has My Angel written by Elliott Chaze and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Gold Medal Books, New York, 1953.
Book Synopsis We Had to Remove This Post by : Hanna Bervoets
Download or read book We Had to Remove This Post written by Hanna Bervoets and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT IS “NORMAL”? WHAT IS “RIGHT”? AND WHO GETS TO DECIDE? To be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worst—but Kayleigh needs money. So she takes a job working for a social media platform whose name she isn’t allowed to mention. Her task: review offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and decide which need to be removed. It’s grueling work. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform’s ever-changing moderating guidelines. Yet Kayleigh is good at her job, and she finds in her colleagues a group of friends—even a new girlfriend—and for the first time in her life, her future seems bright. But soon the job seems to change them all, shifting their worlds in alarming ways. How long before the moderators’ own senses of right and wrong begin to bend and flex? From one of the most acclaimed Dutch writers of her generation, We Had to Remove This Post is a chilling, powerful, and urgent literary masterpiece about who or what determines our worldview, who sets the boundaries, and just how much a person can be asked to accept.
Book Synopsis The Road to San Giovanni by : Italo Calvino
Download or read book The Road to San Giovanni written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heartfelt, affecting, and wise, the essay collection The Road to San Giovanni offers Italo Calvino's reflections on his own life and work in five elegant "memory exercises."
Book Synopsis The Pine Barrens Stratagem by : Ken Harris
Download or read book The Pine Barrens Stratagem written by Ken Harris and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Investigator Steve Rockfish needs cash, like yesterday. The bad news is that yesterday, a global pandemic raged, and Maryland was headed toward a lockdown that would ultimately lead to cheating spouses no longer "working late," and hence a lack of new clients. Rockfish's luck changes when a Hollywood producer reaches out, but the job is two states away and involves digging up information on a child trafficking ring from the 1940s. What he uncovers will be used to support the launch of a true crime docuseries. He grabs a mask, hand sanitizer and heads for South Jersey. On-site, Rockfish meets Jawnie McGee, the great granddaughter of a local policeman gone missing while investigating the original crimes. As the duo uncover more clues, they learn the same criminal alliance has reformed to use the pandemic as a conduit to defraud the Federal Government of that sweet, sweet, stimulus money. It's not long before the investigation turns up some key intel on a myriad of illicit activity over the last eighty years and Rockfish rockets toward a showdown with the mafia, local archdiocese and dirty cops. COVID-19 isn't the only threat to his health.
Download or read book Open City written by Ignazio Silone and published by Steerforth Italia. This book was released on 1999 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sampler of post-World War II Italian fiction, including excerpts from Ignazio Silone's Bread and Wine and Elsa Morante's House of Liars. Nothing on the title, however, a film by Roberto Rossellini.
