Philip K. Dick
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Philip K. Dick | DeRank™: 0,44

He has managed to find the perfect meeting point between man, the universe, and God. more
Paolo Ciufici
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Paolo Ciufici | DeRank™: 0,00

biochemistry of romantic relationships more
Sting -Bring on the night
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Sting — Bring on the night | DeRank™: 0,00

scary band, live + so good from Sting's first and best period more
John Fante -La grande fame
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John Fante — La grande fame | DeRank™: 0,00

- The entire world of Fante, from the winters of childhood in Colorado to the conquest of Los Angeles, is present in these perfect, and often hilarious, prose.

- The protagonists of these stories, for once, are no longer the Italian-Americans of Colorado and California, but the seasonal Filipino workers who earn their bread hard in the fields or in the factories of the industrial suburbs of Los Angeles, aspiring to a better life... but above all to the Great Love, which sooner or later (or at least one hopes) arrives for everyone... more
John Fante -A ovest di Roma
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John Fante — A ovest di Roma | DeRank™: 0,00

Cynical, ruthless, poignant self-portrait of a John Fante on the brink of maturity. Four lazy children devoted to marijuana and the music of Frank Zappa, a bored wife, a glorious Y-shaped house on the ocean coast: the life of Henry Molise, a fifty-year-old writer in a crisis of inspiration, seems destined for a predictable everyday existence filled with domestic fights and reconciliations, when a surprise - a true gift from heaven - joins the ragtag family: a gigantic, stubborn, dull - and gay - dog named with an epitaph: STUPIDO. With him, Molise's routine slides into a joyful and tender catastrophe. (einaudi.it) more
John Fante -Dago Red
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John Fante — Dago Red | DeRank™: 0,00

It is a collection of thirteen stories by John Fante, composed of the following tales:
Family Kidnapping
Snow Mason
First Communion
Alter Boy
Professional
My Mother's Silly Song
A Wife for Dino Rossi
The Road to Hell
One of Us
The Odyssey of a Wop
Home, Sweet Home
The Iradiddio
Ave Maria more
John Fante -1933. Un anno terribile
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"The terrible year, 1933, is not linked to any historical event. It is just another year except for Dominic, the protagonist. It is terrible because it marks the moment when the young man becomes aware that in his life there is no alternative to escape. Embraced by his father's concrete mixer, he dreams of reaching California. That is, adulthood."
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1933 Was a Bad Year was published posthumously in 1985. more
John Fante -Sogni di Bunker Hill
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John Fante — Sogni di Bunker Hill | DeRank™: 0,00

- The fourth and final chapter of the autobiographical cycle centered around the character of Arturo Bandini is set in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s.

- Dreams from Bunker Hill is also the last novel by Italian-American writer John Fante. It dates back to 1982 and was dictated by Fante, who was near death, to his wife Joyce Smart.

“Fuck Los Angeles, your palm trees, and your women with high asses, and your trendy streets, because I'm going home, I'm going back to Colorado, I'm going back to the damn best city in the United States: Boulder, Colorado.”
- John Fante - more
John Fante -La confraternita del Chianti
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"I’m sitting in my small, dirty room sucking my thumb trying to write a novel... The story of four old, drunken Italians from Roseville, a tale about my father and his friends." (John Fante)

The novel was "The Brotherhood of the Grape." more
John Fante -Full of Life
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John Fante — Full of Life | DeRank™: 0,00

"Full of Life is the story of a pregnancy and the loneliness that accompanies it. This book, the only major success of Fante during his lifetime, is the unforgettable tale of how a man and a woman can love and hate each other, be against one another, and then love each other again and feel together."

"In Full of Life, it is the dialogues that ensure the taste and spice, especially those between the protagonist Fante and Joyce. Tense arguments, laced with humor and nonsense, that revolve around a typical comedic pretext: the transparent and delicate curtain that separates a man's thoughts from a woman's." (einaudi.it) more
John Fante -Chiedi alla polvere
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John Fante — Chiedi alla polvere | DeRank™: 0,00

Arturo Bandini, a young aspiring American writer of Italian immigrant parents, dreams of becoming a successful writer. After managing to publish a short story of his own, he moves from Colorado to Los Angeles in search of fortune.

Here he stays at a boarding house in the Bunker Hill neighborhood.

Wandering through the city in search of experiences, he meets a Mexican waitress, Camilla Lopez, and weaves a difficult and tumultuous love story with her, passionate and stormy: over the two lovers looms the specter of poverty and social inferiority… (wiki) more
John Fante -Aspetta primavera, Bandini
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- Arturo Bandini is 14 years old, lives in America, in a remote little town in the mountains, and owns a sled.

- His mother and father are Italian immigrants, but he would have preferred to be American.

- Then there’s his grandmother Toscana who considers her son-in-law Svevo, Arturo's father, a half failure and her daughter Maria a poor lunatic for marrying him.

- The Bandinis are not doing well, in fact: there is not a single thing that happens under the dreamy eyes of little Arturo that doesn't bear the mark of an ancestral, metaphysical, incurable Italian hunger.

- So much so that in the bundle of American words circulating in the family, the expression “chiedi se ti fa credito” is by far the most used. (einaudi.it) more
John Fante -La strada per Los Angeles
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"Attention: the one who will appear at the beginning of this novel, in the role of a humble ditch digger, is one of the most legendary characters produced by modern literature.
Beware of Arturo Bandini, the mighty writer, the ruthless leader, the invincible middle-distance runner, the irresistible lover, the tender son who gives blood and sweat to support a family of parasitic females.
Bandini the immortal, pride of Italy and America; the cunning Bandini who can’t be outsmarted; he is about to make his entrance and will conquer the world...
What a formidable novel this is." (Sandro Veronesi) more
Bret Easton Ellis -Le regole dell'attrazione
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"Ellis, it must be said without delusion, is incredibly talented." - Pier Vittorio Tondelli -
"This book, murky yet not morbid, makes one think about how much despair can hide behind the facade of young people privileged in economic status, physical attractiveness, and social prestige, but devoid of passions, dreams, in a world that is too cynical, too cold, too nonsensical." - Fernanda Pivano -
"What would my parents say if they knew that all I'm doing here is drinking and having sex? Would they disown me? And would they still send me money?"
The students attending the exclusive university of Camden, New Hampshire, besides observing those "rules of attraction" that govern various relationships between the sexes, mostly drink, get high, and spiral out of control. And with whatever they can get their hands on: warm flat beer, whiskey, amphetamines, coke, Ecstasy, meth… (einaudi.it) more
Bret Easton Ellis -American Psycho
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Bret Easton Ellis — American Psycho | DeRank™: 0,00

"A novel that is both terrifying and comical. A one-way trip into madness." - Giuseppe Culicchia -

Patrick Bateman is young, handsome, and wealthy. He lives in New York, works on Wall Street, and spends wild nights with his crazy friends filled with sex, alcohol, and cocaine in the most exclusive clubs in Manhattan. According to Evelyn Richards, his young, beautiful, and rich girlfriend, Patrick is "the boy next door." In reality, his life is marked by frantic and delirious rhythms, by unspeakable obsessions. Moreover, when darkness falls over the city, Patrick transforms into a murderous monster, a cold, methodical, relentless torturer. To the point of embodying horror. (einaudi.it) more
Bret Easton Ellis -Acqua dal sole
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Bret Easton Ellis — Acqua dal sole | DeRank™: 0,00

- Thirteen stories that immerse us in 1980s Los Angeles, snapshots of a world too polished to be real, yet too recognizable to be false.

- Spoiled rich kids of never-grown-up parents, rockstars obsessed on a worldwide tour, ephemeral and empty television stars, impossible loves lived out in the zoo, vampires driving Porsches, clumsy and apathetic criminals who are no less cruel for it, kids dead in a car crash or girls about to die of cancer—these spectral portraits reconstruct a humanity besieged by indifference, amidst endless drugs, sex, and abuse, a human comedy of horrors, filled with unforgettable dialogues and a ruthless description of social disintegration around which an entire generation emerges, sucked in by the collapse of all values. (from einaudi.it) more
Umberto Eco -L'isola del giorno prima
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In the summer of 1643, a young man from Piedmont finds himself shipwrecked in the southern seas on a deserted ship.
Before him lies an island he cannot reach.
Around him, an apparently welcoming environment.
Alone, on an unknown sea, Roberto de la Grive sees for the first time in his life skies, waters, birds, plants, fish, and corals that he cannot name.
He writes love letters, through which his story is hinted at: a slow and traumatic initiation into the seventeenth-century world of new science, state reason, and a cosmos in which the Earth is no longer at the center of the universe. (ibs.it)

- The entire book depicts psychological situations, philosophical theories, and worldviews in dialectical contrast, and Eco concludes that his narrative does not have a worthy ending to be told. (wikipedia) more
Umberto Eco -Il pendolo di Foucault
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- ... is divided into ten segments that represent the ten Sephirot. The novel is rich in esoteric references to the Kabbalah, alchemy, and conspiracy theory, so much so that literary critic and novelist Anthony Burgess suggested that an index would be useful.

- ... the narrating "I" is initially a student and then a young professional in publishing in Milan. Through a series of events, he finds in the myth of the Knights Templar his true cultural and professional raison d'être. However, from this myth branch out a series of threads that correspond to the more hidden or the more rejected parts of so-called Western civilization. Through the discovery of these threads, we meet the other characters in the novel, some good, others less so, but all interested in something. (wikipedia) more
Umberto Eco -Il Nome Della Rosa
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Umberto Eco — Il Nome Della Rosa | DeRank™: 0,00

- Umberto Eco, with a considerable number of essays behind him, had the idea of writing a novel in '78 when a publisher told him he wanted to curate the publication of a series of short crime novels.
- Eco claimed that if he ever wrote a crime novel, it would be a book of 500 pages featuring medieval monks as protagonists.
- What seemed like a joke took shape in the author's mind when he envisioned a poisoned monk in a library while reading.
- The novel was adapted into a film of the same name directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud in 1986, featuring Sean Connery and Christian Slater. more
Umberto Eco -Sulla letteratura
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Umberto Eco — Sulla letteratura | DeRank™: 0,00

The 2002 book contains 18 essays, most of the texts were written between 1990 and 2002; with the exception of "Le sporcizie della forma," originally written in 1954, and "Il mito americano di tre generazioni antiamericane" from 1980:
1. On some functions of literature
2. Reading Paradise
3. On the style of the Manifesto
4. The mists of Valois
5. Wilde. Paradox and aphorism
6. A portrait of the artist as a bachelor
7. Between La Mancha and Babel
8. Borges and my anguish of influence
9. On Camporesi: blood body, life
10. On the symbol
11. On style
12. Les sémaphores sous la pluie
13. Le sporcizie della forma
14. Intertextual irony and levels of reading
15. Poetics and us
16. The American myth of three anti-American generations
17. The strength of the false
18. How I write more