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C.S. Lewis — Perelandra | DeRank™: 0,00

...a daring venture to write a trilogy of metaphysical science fiction, the world had not yet been overwhelmed by myriad tales of star wars.
Lewis anticipated them – but he quickly went far beyond.
In fact, what mattered most to him was not the creation of distant cosmic settings (in which he was, after all, a master), but something more adventurous: to narrate a new challenge between Good and Evil where Good manages to win in a plausible way...
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Oxford, 1937: in C.S. Lewis's apartment at Magdalen College, J.R.R. Tolkien and the host read to a small group of friends who gather regularly on Thursday evenings some chapters from the novels they are writing: The Lord of the Rings and Out of the Silent Planet.
The two great fantasy sagas indeed emerged and grew in parallel – and both were founded on the same realization: “I’m afraid,” C.S. Lewis had told Tolkien, “that if we want to read stories that we like, we will have to write them ourselves.”
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Mia Martini — Oltre la collina | DeRank™: 4,48

I have no trouble imagining how shocking and innovative this album must have been in the landscape of Italian pop music back in 1971, given the way certain themes are addressed in the lyrics and the interpretations and vocal style of an extraordinary singer like Martini, so intense and visceral, unlike anything that had ever been heard in Italy before. It's a truly poignant album, perhaps the one that most reveals the gash in her soul, which, apart from her talent, allowed her to deliver such extraordinary interpretations. And then that voice... The songwriters behind her are more inspired than ever (right, Claudiò?) the covers (like "Into the White" by Stevens) are excellent, and then there are two tracks like the title track and "Lacrime di marzo," which are heart-wrenching. "Lacrime di marzo" is her "Fruit Tree," no doubt about it. A spine-tingling album for me. more
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Steppenwolf — live | DeRank™: 4,15

Classy USA-CND psychedelic hard rock in a live setting, a joyful summary of the early stunning works. more
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great respect for Zeppelin, but there is much better than what is recorded on this sole official live of the band currently active. What a pity, and the fantastic How the West testifies to that. more
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Tomáš, Teresa, Sabina, Franz exist for us immediately, after just a few touches, with an irreducible and almost painful concreteness. (Adelphi) more
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Milan Kundera — Amori ridicoli | DeRank™: 0,00

The world, as it appears with an air of serious composure, is happily falling apart before our eyes, shattered by the dual force of eros and mystification. (from Adelphi) more
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In a quaint spa town with a démodé charm, eight characters find themselves caught up in an ever more dizzying waltz: a lovely nurse; a talented gynecologist; a wealthy American (part saint and part womanizer); a famous trumpet player; a former political prisoner, victim of purges, and about to leave his country... (from Adelphi) more
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As a character in the novel says: "Man's struggle against power is the struggle of memory against oblivion..." more
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Milan Kundera — La lentezza | DeRank™: 0,00

- suddenly, it will become clear to us that to speak of slowness means to speak of memory
- and to speak of memory means to speak of everything
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Milan Kundera — L’identità | DeRank™: 0,00

There are situations in which, for a moment, we do not recognize who is next to us, where the identity of the other fades away, while, in reflection, we doubt our own. (from Adelphi) more
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Milan Kundera — L’ignoranza | DeRank™: 0,00

We believe that our memories coincide with those of those we have loved, we believe we have lived the same experience, but it is an illusion. (from Adelphi) more
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Harvey Cheyne, fifteen years old, son of a wealthy American railroad magnate. Already at his age, he has everything, but he does not know the value of hard work and money earned through sweat. He is a spoiled brat, the son of a magnate, who was rescued from drowning in the Atlantic Ocean by a Portuguese fishing boat. (from wiki) more
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Rudyard Kipling — «Loro» | DeRank™: 0,00

These stories will undoubtedly surprise and perplex many readers: played on a monstrous keyboard of references, soaked in a pervasive melancholy, they range from South Africa that has not yet known the Boer War to Antioch of the early Christian martyrs, from the monastic Middle Ages to the trenches of the Great War – and each of them is a small novel. Here they care for sick houses: at others, they confess desires to be fulfilled; here a God must pay "a dear price" for his slave before dying under the astonished gaze of Saint Paul, and the antechamber of the realm of the dead is an abandoned carriage on a disused track at the end of the black continent.
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Rudyard Kipling — Kim | DeRank™: 0,00

A little boy is playing, straddling a gigantic cannon: he is Kim, otherwise known as “the Little Friend of the Whole World”; an orphan of an Irish sergeant, raised like an Indian urchin in the alleyways of Lahore.
Kimball O’Hara “did nothing, and with tremendous success.”
Thus we are welcomed by one of the most 'joyful' books that Western literatures possess, steeped as it is in beauty and no small wisdom. (quote Adelphi) more
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Franz Kafka — America | DeRank™: 0,00

Kafka's description of America is similar to that of emigrants in the presence of their relatives who remain in their homeland. On one hand, it highlights an extreme mechanization and a disproportion in scale, while on the other hand, it emphasizes social disparities, difficult working conditions, and inhuman rhythms. (from Mondadori) more
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Franz Kafka — Il Castello | DeRank™: 0,00

The Castle is the last of the three novels by the Prague writer. Remaining unfinished, The Castle, often obscure and sometimes surreal, is centered on the themes of bureaucracy, law as a global order, and thus the alienation and continuous frustration of the individual attempting to integrate into a system that, while inviting him in, simultaneously pushes him away by marginalizing him. (quoted from Mondadori) more
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The Emperor's Message is the first and most famous collection of stories by FK that appeared in Italy and includes: The Verdict; The Metamorphosis; The New Lawyer; A Country Doctor; In the Gallery; An Old Page; Jackals and Arabs; A Visit to the Mine; The Next Village; The Woe of the Family Man; Eleven Children; A Fratricide; A Dream; An Academic Report; In the Penal Colony; First Pain; A Little Woman; A Faster; Josefine the Singer; The Construction of the Great Wall of China; Around the Question of Laws; The Coat of Arms of the City; Allegories; The Truth about Sancho Panza; The Silence of the Sirens; Prometheus; The Hunter Gracchus; The Blow Against the Door; An Intersection; The Bridge; A Little Fable; A Confusion that Happens Every Day; The Knight of the Bucket; A Couple of Spouses; The Neighbor; The Den; The Giant Mole; Investigations of a Dog. more
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Franz Kafka — Il Processo | DeRank™: 0,00

Max Brod, his executor, began publishing the posthumous writings of his friend with the work that, verbally, Kafka would call "Der Process" and it first appeared in 1925, a year after Franz Kafka's death, defying the author's wishes, who had entrusted him with the task of destroying all his papers upon his death... more
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Søren Kierkegaard — Aut - Aut | DeRank™: 0,00

Enten - Eller (in Danish) describes two stages of the life journey, one hedonistic, focused on worldly life, pleasure, and indifference to moral principles and values, the other based on ethical duty and responsibility, resulting in the renunciation of material goods to pursue a religious path (in the sense of the Latin expression "religare"), that is, to reunite the fragments of existence. more
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