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Godflesh — Streetcleaner | DeRank™: 0,38

Looking for the ideological apocalypse? Here it is before your eyes. Simply one of the top five metal albums (in my humble opinion) ever conceived. more
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How can one define one of the most important albums of my life? Easy.
Like the pinnacle of all death metal, where the flair, stylistic elegance, compositional skills, and jazz influences of Atheist finally reach a universal dimension, becoming the definitive death metal album, encapsulated in eight tracks, totaling 32 minutes, with a highly complex and intricate structure. The ultimate masterpiece of the genre. more
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Vasco Rossi — Gli spari sopra | DeRank™: 0,00

the last decent one, then game over more
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Four stories ("Chinese Jade," "The Woman of the Lake," "There Is No Peace in the Mountains," and, indeed, "Bay City Blues") from the eight (the others are collected in "The Man Who Liked Dogs"), written between 1935 and 1941, of which Raymond Chandler was extremely jealous: he refused to publish them during his lifetime, and they were released posthumously in 1964. For the writer, they constituted a secret source to draw ideas for writing one of his novels. He extracted now a character, now an episode, now a description. There is even a precursor of the famous private investigator Philip Marlowe: a detective named Johnny Dalmas, but he is already the "man born for adventure," driven by the desire to complete a work that is "passionately moral." more
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Raymond Chandler — Il lungo addio | DeRank™: 0,00

"…Goodbye, amigo.
I do not say farewell.
I said goodbye when it meant something.
I said goodbye when I was sad, in a moment of loneliness, and when it seemed final."
(Raymond Chandler, The Long Good-bye) more
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Raymond Chandler — La sorellina | DeRank™: 0,00

Originally proposed in Italy under the title "Troppo tardi." It is the fifth of eight novels featuring Philip Marlowe, the archetype of all the down-and-out American private detectives. (wikipedia) more
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Private investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by a prominent cosmetics industrialist to find his missing wife. The lady, who associates with highly charming yet insipid playboys, has disappeared during a stay at their mountain house. more
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In an unceasing succession of different scenarios, the detective's intervention triggers a series of inexplicable murders.
As always, Marlowe steps forward among the monsters and wreckage of a corrupted society with the pained awareness of the antihero, with the stern tenacity of the paladin of truth, and with the caustic humor of the "man of honor."
(cit. lafeltrinelli.it) more
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Against the backdrop of a rich and corrupted California, teeming with the miserable waiting for their big break, Philiph Marlowe is unleashed on the trail of a missing husband. He encounters an ex-convict, recently released after eight years in prison, who hires him to find his woman, who has also disappeared. What unfolds is a tale with strong colors, seasoned with blackmail and violence, luxury, and a long string of murders. more
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It is considered by the Crime Writers' Association to be the second-best detective novel of all time.
The book is the first in the series featuring private detective Philip Marlowe. The title refers to death and is the final phrase of the work.
The eponymous The Big Sleep is a 1946 film directed by Howard Hawks and starring the duo Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
(cit. wiki) more
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"Don Quixote is the wager of a genius, with two characters so complex and yet so free that they do not know until the end where they are headed, where their confused journey will take them, and above all the play of their relationships."
- Vittorio Bodini - more
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Vincenzo Cerami — Fantasmi | DeRank™: 0,00

“It’s a book that encourages you to leaf through the pages backward rather than forward. You don’t quickly flip through the pages to find out how it ends, but revisit those you’ve just read, because there isn’t just one story but many stories… Only at the end do you discover that there is one single story, with the rhythms of a sonata in four movements.”
- Umberto Eco - more
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Vincenzo Cerami is a storyteller, screenwriter, librettist, and playwright: who better than him to open the doors of the writer's creative workshop to readers and unveil its mechanisms, tricks, and devices?
In these pages, already a great success, the author explains the hidden laws that produce the naturalness of the narrative, the techniques for constructing convincing dialogues, and the effects that can be achieved by choosing to narrate in the first or third person, etc.
In addition to the already published chapters on how to write novels, short stories, and film scripts… (cit. ibs.it) more
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It is the novel written by Roberto Benigni and Vincenzo Cerami from the screenplay of the eponymous film, directed by Benigni, and released in theaters in 1991 just before the publication of the book. more
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The glass boy is Stefano, a high school student, who the lens of Cerami halts on the threshold of adulthood. He moves amidst the quagmires of conflicting sensations that continuously explode and cancel each other out. His fear of nothingness is similar, but in the opposite direction, to that experienced by Aschenbach in "Death in Venice," the book Stefano opens like a breviary during the lazy days of a summer holiday. He is dominated by an anxiety for the absolute, a frantic need to upend and erase what is pale and mediocre. more
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The novel tells the story of a government clerk who is nearing retirement. A year later, the eponymous film was made, directed by Mario Monicelli, featuring Alberto Sordi as the protagonist. more
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Anton P. Cechov — Zio Vanja | DeRank™: 0,00

"The main character of Uncle Vanya (1896) is not Uncle Vanya, but the Professor. The fictitious respectability, the awkwardness, the attire, and the pompous ceremonial give Serebrjakòv the character of a haughty clown. His first entrance can be considered an authentic clownish 'entrée'. In our eyes, he appears sometimes akin to one of the Fratellini, sometimes to the malevolent fatties of Chaplin's comedies. The game with the blanket, the medical vials, the pompous sermons, the 'have a new photograph taken' with which Maria Vasílievna takes her leave from him: many elements contribute to highlight the circus ridiculousness of this 'wise carp', this blustery fellow, whom I imagine as a huge donkey-headed man, adorned with a flourish of a lush, reddish top hat."
From the Introduction by Angelo Maria Ripellino more
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List of stories:
- Boxes
- Anyone who has used this bed
- Intimacy
- Menudo
- Elephant
- Blackbird mess
- The assignment
In a commemorative speech held in November 1988, Tess Gallagher concluded with the words of a poem by Raymond:
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, despite everything?
Yes.
And what is it that you wanted?
To feel called beloved, to feel
loved on earth. more
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Raymond Carver — America oggi | DeRank™: 0,00

America today gathers the nine stories and the poetry of Raymond Carver transformed by Robert Altman in the film that won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1993.
A choral fresco made of solitudes that survive on the margins of the American dream.
Fragments of lives that burn and fade but somehow resist, still capable of infinite love.
A distillation of Carver’s writing in all its purity, able to reveal how extraordinary lies behind every existence. (quoted Einaudi) more
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Raymond Carver — Cattedrale | DeRank™: 0,00

How to describe a medieval cathedral to someone who cannot see?
It is in the answer to this seemingly unusual question that the heart of Carver’s latest collection lies: in the possibility of being surprised by the unpredictability of sharing and human connection.
(from einaudi.it) more
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