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Joni Mitchell: Night Ride Home
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Joni Mitchell: Night Ride Home
19 sep 17
In this work, Mitchell returns to the ballads of the '60s style.

The song "Night Ride Home" (originally titled "Fourth of July") was inspired by a moonlit night in Hawaii.

"Cherokee Louise" tells the story of a childhood friend who suffered from sexual abuse.

"The Windfall (Everything For Nothing)" is about a maid who sued her. And the single release "Come in from the Cold" focuses on childhood and middle age.

"Come in from the Cold" is centered on childhood and middle age.
Joni Mitchell: Hejira
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Joni Mitchell: Hejira
19 sep 17
Ok, this album is my favorite by Joni, the title is a transliteration of the Arabic word "hijra," which means "journey," usually referring to the migration of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (and his companions) from Mecca to Medina in 622. The songs were written in the car while the singer was driving home alone after a trip made together with two friends. Among the musicians are also Jaco Pastorius on bass & Neil Young on harmonica.
Jorge Amado: Teresa Batista stanca di guerra
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Jorge Amado: Teresa Batista stanca di guerra
26 sep 17
Life and miracles of Teresa Batista sold at thirteen by her relatives to a vile rapist ogre, avenger of her tyrant, a prostitute able to become a virgin again with each new love, an unmatched sambista, an unyielding vanquisher of the black devil, an indomitable unionist of brothels, a generous catalyst of every uprising against earthly injustice; saint... (quoted from Einaudi)
Jorge Amado: Gabriella garofano e cannella
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Jorge Amado: Gabriella garofano e cannella
26 sep 17
"This love story began on the same clear day, with spring sunshine, when the rancher Jesuino Mendonça shot his legitimate wife Sinhzinha Guedes Mendonça dead..." (cit. Gabriella garofano e cannella)
Joseph Conrad: Un reietto delle isole
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Joseph Conrad: Un reietto delle isole
20 sep 17
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)
Joseph Conrad: Il negro del
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Joseph Conrad: Il negro del "Narciso"
20 sep 17
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.
(cit. wiki)
Joseph Conrad: La follia di Almayer
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Joseph Conrad: La follia di Almayer
20 sep 17
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)
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim
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Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim
20 sep 17
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.

.: Joseph Conrad :.
Joseph Conrad: Racconti inquieti
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Joseph Conrad: Racconti inquieti
20 sep 17
"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)
- The Lagoon (January 1897)
Joseph Conrad: Cuore di tenebra
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Joseph Conrad: Cuore di tenebra
20 sep 17
"She had taken stock and had judged. 'The horror!'" Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

This work by Conrad is strongly representative of the author's style and his suggestions. The wild jungle seems to come alive around the reader, with its rustlings and its gloomy mystery. The figure of Kurtz, in particular, holds an hypnotic and magical power, which sometimes transforms into a tragic sense of pity. The stories encountered in Heart of Darkness reference the journey that Conrad took in 1890 aboard the steamer Roi des Belges along the Congo River, in the heart of Africa. Even the characters that populate this book are portraits of real figures whom the author met during that time. (from wiki)
Joseph Conrad: Giovinezza
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Joseph Conrad: Giovinezza
20 sep 17
Youth (A Narrative) is an autobiographical tale by the Polish writer Joseph Conrad, who wrote in English.

The second mate of the ship Judea must reach the port of Bangkok with a cargo of coal, but a storm holds them back twice. Then, on the third journey, the cargo catches fire and ignites the ship, and the sailors manage to transfer part of the cargo to the lifeboats...
Joseph Conrad: Al limite estremo
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Joseph Conrad: Al limite estremo
20 sep 17
Al limite estremo (The End of the Tether) is a semi-autobiographical story.

Captain Henry Whalley is an honest and experienced sailor, 67 years old, and the commander of the Fair Maid, a ship he owns. A widower, Whalley has only one daughter who lives in Australia and is in financial trouble after marrying an incompetent man. During the voyage, Whalley begins to experience severe visual disturbances; he knows he poses a risk to the ship and the crew, but he cannot relinquish command to protect his daughter: he believes he can still maintain control of the ship despite his near-blindness; however, he does not realize that...
(from wiki)
Joseph Conrad: Tifone
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Joseph Conrad: Tifone
20 sep 17
Typhoon is a classic sea story, likely based on Conrad's real experience as a sailor and probably also on a true misadventure aboard the real steamship John P. Best. The long tale describes the exploits of Captain MacWhirr as he faces a tropical typhoon at the helm of the Siamese-flagged steamer Nan-Shan, with its human cargo of Chinese coolies heading towards their homeland. (from wiki)
Joseph Conrad: Nostromo
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Joseph Conrad: Nostromo
20 sep 17
The book features the largest number of fully developed characters of any of his novels, but two dominate the narrative: Señor Gould and the eponymous anti-hero, the incorruptible Nostromo. The inspiration for the characters comes from a group of mentally ill individuals that Conrad had encountered before writing the book. (from wiki)
Joseph Conrad: Il duello
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Joseph Conrad: Il duello
20 sep 17
The Duel: A Military Tale, this story was brought to the screen by Ridley Scott in the 1977 film "The Duellists" featuring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel; since then, some Italian translations of the tale have been titled "I duellanti." It is the story of two French officers, whose lives are shaped by a grotesque duel that began in 1801 and ended 30 years later.
Joseph Conrad: La linea d'ombra
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Joseph Conrad: La linea d'ombra
20 sep 17
It deals with the growth and development of the protagonist's personality and character during his journey to become the captain of the ship Orient. Upon closer inspection, for Conrad, the shadow line is that undefined, personal, and at the same time universal moment and journey of realizing one's independence and, simultaneously, the feeling of being alone in front of and in the world. Keys to this sudden, almost instantaneous passage are the overcoming of guilt and the seemingly opposite feeling of unworthiness for one's being: a overcoming that occurs alongside the acceptance of the responsibility to be oneself as a human being. (cit. wiki)
Joseph Roth: I cento giorni
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Joseph Roth: I cento giorni
22 sep 17
With the same immediacy, in the same direct manner in which he narrated the events of obscure Jews from Eastern Europe or Habsburg officials, Roth tells in this book (first published in 1935) a story of Napoleon – specifically the most dramatic phase of his epic, which spans from the escape from Elba to the defeat at Waterloo and the boarding for Saint Helena.
These are the "hundred days" that made the world dream, for one last time, of new perspectives. (quote. Adelphi)
Joseph Roth: Destra e sinistra
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Joseph Roth: Destra e sinistra
22 sep 17
... this novel is a perfect example of hot narration, where those extreme characters—graspers, terrorists, crisis-ridden bourgeois, conspirators, drifters, failures—become narrative ghosts that flourished in pre-Nazi Germany... (cit. Adelphi)
Joseph Roth: Il peso falso
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Joseph Roth: Il peso falso
22 sep 17
... his writings, while preserving the realistic framework, seem to naturally allude, transparently, to a further meaning... (from Adelphi)
Joseph Roth: La ribellione
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Joseph Roth: La ribellione
22 sep 17
Andreas Pum, the protagonist, is a war invalid who still believes in the order of the world and of men and dreams of owning a stamp shop. But fate, behind which masks the inescapable oppression exerted by society, gradually transforms him into a scapegoat, into a helpless Job, forced to acknowledge the omnipresence of evil. (from Adelphi)
Joseph Roth: Le città bianche
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Joseph Roth: Le città bianche
22 sep 17
For three months, between September and November 1925, Roth wandered through the South of France. That journey was accompanied, for him, by a sense of liberation: at thirty, he discovered the “white cities” of Provence, which he had dreamed of during a gray childhood. At the same time, he felt every oppressive Germanness drifting away. He experienced a new way of breathing: “I have gained the freedom to stroll, among ladies and gentlemen, among street singers and beggars, with my hands in the pockets of my trousers...” (from Adelphi)
Joseph Roth: La Marcia di Radetzky
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Joseph Roth: La Marcia di Radetzky
22 sep 17
This book, from the first line to the last, sweeps us away like a wave, and we finish reading it abandoned to a final ebb.
Never before have the imperial totality unfolded so faithfully on these pages, like a mantle that equally covers the marshy regions of the eastern frontier, the boulevards of the Ring where the Lipizzan horses parade, amidst black and golden helmets, under "the blue porcelain eye of the Emperor," and the garrison towns, with their clubs, barracks, brothels. (cit. Adelphi)
Joseph Roth: Zipper e suo padre
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Joseph Roth: Zipper e suo padre
22 sep 17
At first, young Zipper is just a freckled classmate who always mentions his father as the source of all authority; and old Zipper is a man bent by the fatigue of the immense stride he has taken: born a proletarian, he has become petty-bourgeois, and now he defends his conquest with his nails, wandering through his life like the mismatched sixteenths of a popular encyclopedia. (quoted from Adelphi)
Joseph Roth: Ebrei erranti
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Joseph Roth: Ebrei erranti
22 sep 17
These pages repopulate before our eyes, with the magic of words, that part of Europe where almost no Jews remain today and anti-Semitism continues to reign undisturbed. (cit. Adelphi)
Joseph Roth: Confessione di un assassino
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Joseph Roth: Confessione di un assassino
22 sep 17
... it is a fairy tale about Evil, about its hypnotic power to drive its victims into circular and obsessive stories, which slowly tighten like a noose. This metaphysical, irreducible Evil takes on a peculiarly Russian form here: as a dark connivance between denunciation, resentment, erotic abjection, and the anxiety to atone, punish oneself, confess... (quoted from Adelphi)
Joseph Roth: Viaggio in Russia
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Joseph Roth: Viaggio in Russia
22 sep 17
After the early years of enthusiasm for the revolution, when he signed “Roth the Red,” he had now entered a phase of doubt: thus he saw this journey as a valuable opportunity for verification. Attentive, curious, with a bright eye and steady hand, he wandered through the great cities, followed the course of the Volga, ventured among the peoples of Central Asia, writing his correspondences in real time. (cit. Adelphi)
Joseph Roth: Il mercante di coralli
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Joseph Roth: Il mercante di coralli
22 sep 17
... many are the paths that Roth explores in these tales, and more than once it can be said that they lead to the land of perfection... (quoted from Adelphi)
Joseph Roth: Tarabas Un ospite su questa terra
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Joseph Roth: Tarabas Un ospite su questa terra
22 sep 17
... is one of the rare characters in modern literature that immediately represents a destiny. “I read in your hand that you are a murderer and a saint,” says a gypsy to the young Tarabas... (cit. Adelphi)
Joseph Roth: Il profeta muto
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Joseph Roth: Il profeta muto
22 sep 17
Kargan is primarily a "stateless" person in a world of people who still delude themselves into thinking they have one. After having traveled, "lonely and grim," the roads of the rich who humiliate him, trained immediately in illegality, driven by resentment, by the lust for destruction, and by the desire for an Absolute, Kargan launches into his own war "against society, against the homelands, against the poets and painters who frequent His house," (quote Adelphi)
Joseph Roth: Giobbe
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Joseph Roth: Giobbe
22 sep 17
- Roth's Job is named Mendel Singer; he is a "simple man" who works as a 'teacher,' that is, he teaches the Bible to children...
- His life flows quietly, "between meager banks," but enclosed in an untouched order, until the birth of his fourth child, Menuchim, who is impaired.
From that moment on, if "everything sudden is evil," as Mendel Singer says, many evils begin to rush into his life.
He will have to leave his homeland to go to New York, in a world that is completely foreign to him, and his wife – once again a memorable female character – his daughter and his sons will each be touched by war, death, and madness. (cit. Adelphi)
Joseph Roth: La milleduesima notte
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Joseph Roth: La milleduesima notte
22 sep 17
Reaching a clairvoyant and desperate maturity, the narrator Roth takes here an additional distance from the story he tells. In vain would we search in these pages for those mediamente autobiographical characters who in his other novels were surrounded by the aura of Roth's own sensitivity. (cit. Adelphi)
Joseph Roth: Fuga senza fine
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Joseph Roth: Fuga senza fine
22 sep 17
Tunda is an entity now foreign everywhere, belonging truly to nothing: "I only know that it wasn’t, as they say, ‘unease’ that drove me, but on the contrary – an absolute calm. I have nothing to lose. I am neither brave nor curious about adventures. A wind pushes me, and I do not fear to go to the bottom." (cit. Adelphi)
Joseph Roth: La leggenda del santo bevitore
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Joseph Roth: La leggenda del santo bevitore
22 sep 17
The Legend of the Holy Drunkard was published for the first time in 1939, a few months after the death of Joseph Roth, an exile in Paris – and can be considered, in many ways, his testament, the transparent and mysterious parable that encapsulates the essence of its author, now rediscovered as one of the most extraordinary storytellers of this century. (cit. Adelphi)
Joseph Roth: La Cripta dei Cappuccini
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Joseph Roth: La Cripta dei Cappuccini
22 sep 17
... the fate of young Trotta begins to plunge, as within him a sense of desperate bitterness becomes increasingly sharp and around him is revealed a degrading world, already ready to impose itself. Silent, a conscious witness, he will traverse the madness of war and the humiliations of the post-war period, discovering himself to be an outsider in the midst of a new order whose pettiness and violence he already perceives, he will witness the entry of the Nazis into Vienna, the seal of all deaths... (cit. Adelphi)
Jovanotti: Il grande Boh!
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Jovanotti: Il grande Boh!
10 oct 17
- Those who decide to listen to me should know that I am someone who tells about worlds I have seen and worlds I want to see, and that I don't fully know the local language, the language of the locals; I strum instruments and speak several languages poorly... (J)

- "A great travel writer, with some reminiscence of Jack Kerouac" (quote from Fernanda Pivano)

- In general, these are pieces from the diaries related to Jovanotti's bike trips in Africa and Patagonia...
Julian Barnes: Il senso di una fine
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Julian Barnes: Il senso di una fine
31 oct 17
Tony Webster is a man without qualities.
In studies and work, in feelings and, you can bet on it, even in sex.
But the letter from a lawyer announcing a legacy of five hundred pounds and a diary from the past shakes the murky depths of his existence. (einaudi.it)

«Our life is not our life, but only the story we have told about it» JB "The Sense of an Ending"

The novel was adapted into a film in 2017, titled in Italian for some reason “L'altra metà della storia” with Charlotte Rampling.
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