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Joseph Conrad — Racconti inquieti | DeRank™: 0,00

"Tales of Unrest" (1898) contains five stories:
- Karain: A Memory (November 1897)
- The Idiots (October 1896)
- An Outpost of Progress (June-July 1897)
- The Return (1898)
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Joseph Conrad — Lord Jim | DeRank™: 0,00

There is nothing that delights, disenchants, and enslaves like life at sea; in no other kind of life is the illusion further from reality, in no other is the beginning solely an illusion and disillusionment comes more swiftly while submission is more complete.
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The novel is inspired by a real person whom Conrad met during a trip to the East Indies.
Kaspar Almayer, a young Dutchman born in the East Indies, wins the favor of the wealthy captain Lingard. Hoping to one day gain access to Lingard's fortune, Almayer agrees to marry the captain's adopted daughter, a Malay girl who has been forced to accept the lifestyle and religion of the colonizers, and to run a trading post in the village of Sambir on the Pantai River in the jungle of Borneo. (source: wiki) more
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The author's preface is considered one of his best literary essays and, more generally, a manifesto of Impressionism in literature. According to critics and scholars, the narrative is seen as an allegory on the theme of solidarity and isolation, with the microcosm of the ship representing a scaled-down version of human society.
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The novel tells the story of Peter Willems, an immoral man with no reputation who, fleeing from Makassar due to a scandal, finds refuge in a village of natives, only to betray his benefactors by seducing the chief's daughter. (cit. wiki) more
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Daniil Charms — Casi | DeRank™: 0,00

Charms himself alluded once to the peculiarity of his way of being with words that were strikingly simple, direct, and precise:
"I am only interested in 'nonsense', only in that which has no practical meaning.
Life interests me only in its absurd manifestation.
Heroism, pathos, daring, morality, emotion, and risk are words and feelings that I find detestable.
But I perfectly understand and admire: enthusiasm and exaltation, inspiration and despair, passion and reserve, debauchery and chastity, sadness and pain, joy and laughter." (cit. Adelphi) more
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Bruce Chatwin — Sulla collina nera | DeRank™: 0,00

This novel is the story of the long life of two identical twins. Lewis and Benjamin Jones for eighty years eat the same food, wear the same clothes, sleep in the same bed, swing the axe with the same motion. They live on a farm called "La Visione," situated on the line that separates Wales from England, in a harsh and sparsely populated landscape. When examined closely, their existence is filled with events, often cruel and violent, but everything unfolds within a ten-mile radius of the farm. (cit. Adelphi) more
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Bruce Chatwin — In Patagonia | DeRank™: 0,00

After the last war, some English boys, including the author of this book, bent over maps, searched for the only right place to escape the next nuclear destruction. They chose Patagonia.
And it was precisely in Patagonia that Bruce Chatwin would venture, not to save himself from a catastrophe, but in pursuit of a prehistoric monster and a seafaring relative.
He found both – and once again he discovered the enchantment of traveling... (from Adelphi) more
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More than a century after the death of a famous slave trader, Dom Francisco da Silva, his numerous descendants gather in Ouidah, Dahomey, "to honor his memory with a requiem mass and a meal." They are a diverse crowd of poor and rich, sharing a common regret: the era of the slave trade, "lost golden age when their family had been wealthy, famous, and white... (from Adelphi)" more
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Bruce Chatwin — Le Vie dei Canti | DeRank™: 0,00

It tells of encounters and picaresque adventures in the depths of Australia. And it is a journey of ideas, a melody of ideas that all stems from a single question: why has man, since the dawn of time, felt an irresistible urge to move, to migrate? (from Adelphi) more
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Bruce Chatwin — Utz | DeRank™: 0,00

Utz's solitary and obsessive life will turn into a game against that enemy, whose stakes are the collection itself, a silent army of beings that must be wrested from the brutal fingertips of every authority... (cit. Adelphi) more
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Bruce Chatwin — Che ci faccio qui? | DeRank™: 0,00

In this book, Bruce Chatwin collected, in the last months before his death, those scattered pieces of his work that marked as many stages of a single adventure, of a whole life intense as "a journey to be made on foot." (from Adelphi) more
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Melville used the adjective "patagonia" to indicate something completely exotic, monstrous, and dangerously alluring. An attraction that also had a profound effect on the young Bruce Chatwin.
Both Chatwin and Theroux belong to that lineage of travelers who find that "a literary association or reference can excite as much as a rare plant or animal." (from Adelphi) more
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Bruce Chatwin — L’occhio assoluto | DeRank™: 0,00

The images that appear in this book were captured in Patagonia and Mauritania, in Australia and Afghanistan, in Mali and Nepal, but often the original location and occasion remain indecipherable, as if the pure randomness of traveling served to bring forth, each time, in a fleeting moment, the complete uniqueness of a fragment of what is, without other attributes, and at the same time the silent astonishment of the eye that catches it. (cit. Adelphi) more
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They are short stories, tales and travel sketches (from beloved Patagonia to Tuscany, from Africa to Capri), portraits (Konrad Lorenz, Axel Munthe, Curzio Malaparte)... from page to page through writings that span twenty years of a brief, intense, wandering life... of a Chatwin who was an art expert and archaeologist, journalist, explorer, and storyteller. (quoted from Adelphi) more
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This story, almost unbearably stripped of a devastating passion – set in a rundown gas station on a highway... (quote from Adelphi) more
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Thegiornalisti | DeRank™: 3,27

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It is based on the life, or more precisely the death, of the American criminal Dutch Schultz, linked to the so-called Jewish syndicate. (cit. wiki)
In this film screenplay, the last words of Dutch Schultz come to life, the former owner of a speakeasy in the 1920s and later the founder of a beer empire.
Wounded at 10:20 PM on October 23, 1935, he dies twenty hours later.
A police stenographer records everything Dutch says at his bedside, about 1200 words.
The last words of Dutch Schultz comprise an inspired delirium.
Rarely has the sense of life and death been rendered in such a dramatic way. (cit. sugarcoedizioni.it) more
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William S. Burroughs — Pasto nudo | DeRank™: 0,00

The title "Naked Lunch" was an idea of Jack Kerouac who took a phrase from a poem titled "On the Work of William Burroughs" by his friend Allen Ginsberg. It is a book with seemingly nonsensical and unrelated sentences; in reality, the underlying theme of the work is the control that the State can exert over individuals' minds. (source: wiki) more
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"Junkie" is the original title; Burroughs rationally and objectively annotates his experience as a drug addict in general. As a doctor and an anthropologist, he begins writing Junkie in Mexico City, where he stayed from 1948 to 1950, attending the University of Mexico on a scholarship for research on Aztec history and codices, the language, and Mayan archaeology. He had been using heroin and morphine since his time in New York and New Orleans, buying them legally with regular medical prescriptions (at the time, these drugs were also sold at pharmacies) or on the black market. more
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