Stanlio

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Nikolaj Gogol’: Racconti di Pietroburgo
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Nikolaj Gogol’: Racconti di Pietroburgo
21 sep 17
A barber wakes up early, gets out of bed, breaks the freshly baked bread, and sees inside "something whitish": a nose.
Thus begins one of the most famous tales in all of literature, alongside in this collection four other stories, no less significant and renowned: The Portrait, where a painting carries with it, over the years, all the evil that was in the soul of the character represented; The Perspective, a tale of encounters and fatal or fleeting passions against the ever-changing, sometimes unsettling backdrop of Nevsky Prospekt; The Diary of a Madman, the diary of a lonely man spiraling into madness; The Cloak, a drama of a poor clerk who suffers the theft of his new coat, having accustomed an already miserable life to further, pathetic restrictions. (from Adelphi)
Nikolaj Gogol’: Taras Bul'ba
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Nikolaj Gogol’: Taras Bul'ba
21 sep 17
In this work, the themes of duma, the Ukrainian folk song, the eternal struggle between Catholics and Orthodox, the autonomy of the Cossacks, and the code of honor and dedication that binds the inhabitants to one another emerge. (from wiki)
Nikolaj Gogol’: Le anime morte
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Nikolaj Gogol’: Le anime morte
21 sep 17
- It was originally published under the title The Adventures of Chichikov, with the subtitle Poem imposed by the Tsarist censors. It comically recounts the misadventures of a small-time con artist from the provinces of the Russian Empire in the 1820s; the novel is also a fervent denunciation of human mediocrity.
- The initial idea for the book was suggested to Gogol' by Pushkin and is based on a news item.
- This novel is a watershed in Russian literature, which until that moment seemed oblivious to certain realities...
(quoted from wiki)
Nikolaj Gogol’: L'ispettore generale
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Nikolaj Gogol’: L'ispettore generale
21 sep 17
- It is a satirical play, considered one of the masterpieces of the Russian writer. The characters are corrupt, opportunists, businessmen, exploiters that Gogol' sculpts with ironic involvement as exaggerated, grotesque, duplicitous, ready for anything.
- We are in a small town lost in the vast expanse of Russia, suddenly awakened from its everyday routine of normal and dishonest prevarication by the news of the arrival, from St. Petersburg, of a general inspector, an auditor, sent there to inspect the local notables. Everyone is in turmoil and afraid. Imagine when they believe that the general inspector, in disguise, has already arrived in town. In reality, it is a broke young man who immediately understands the benefits he can gain from the situation. (from wiki)
Nona Hendryx: The Heat
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Nona Hendryx: The Heat
19 sep 17
Nona Hendryx is a singer, record producer, musician, songwriter, and actress.

Hendryx is known for both her solo work and being part of the trio "Labelle" (the ones behind "Lady Marmalade").

Her musical output has ranged from soul, funk, dance, and R&B to hard rock, art rock, and world music.

She is the cousin of the legendary Jimi Hendrix.
  • Stanlio
    19 sep 17
    Tracklist:

    A1 Revolutionary Dance - Drum Programming, Jimmy Bralower - Guitar, Michael Gregory - 6:25
    A2 A Girl Like That - Backing Vocals, Lotti Golden - 5:09
    A3 The Heat (Part I) - Backing Vocals, Benny Diggs, Phil Ballou - Drum Programming, Jimmy Bralower - 4:45
    A4 I Need Love - Backing Vocals, Benny Diggs, Cookie Watkins, Dennis Collins, Phil Ballou, Will Downing - Bass, Shaun Solomon - Guitar, Synthesizer, Backing Vocals, Jean Beauvoir - 7:30

    B1 If Looks Could Kill (D.O.A.) - Backing Vocals, Lotti Golden - Guitar, Ira Siegel - Synthesizer, Nona Hendryx - 4:17
    B2 Rock This House - Backing Vocals, Hugo Burnham, Vanessa Cole Burnham - Guitar, Keith Richards - Guitar, Tambourine, Ed Stasium - Acoustic Piano, Nona Hendryx - 4:04
    B3 The Heat (Part II) - Backing Vocals, Charlie Farren, Sarah Dash - Guitar, Backing Vocals, Stuart Kimball - 4:34
    B4 Time - Guitar, Michael Gregory - Percussion, Nona Hendryx - Synthesizer – Bernie Worrell - 6:59
  • hjhhjij
    19 sep 17
    It will be a family affair; she's good too.
Nona Hendryx: Skin Diver
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Nona Hendryx: Skin Diver
19 sep 17
With this album produced by Peter Baumann of Tangerine Dream, he deviated from commercial music; "Women Who Fly" was later covered by Jefferson Starship.

1. Off the Coast of Love - 4:29
2. Women Who Fly - 5:06
3. No Emotion - 5:23
4. Love Is Kind - 3:35
5. Tears - 4:31
6. Skin Diver - 5:05
7. 6th Sense - 6:00
8. Through the Wire - 4:41
9. Interior Voices - 4:46
10. New Desire - 5:07
Nona Hendryx: The Art of Defense
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★
Nona Hendryx: The Art of Defense
19 sep 17
In the mid-1980s, Hendryx was recruited by RCA to record several songs for various film soundtracks; this album was released in 1984.
Nyogen Senzaki e Paul Reps: 101 storie Zen
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Nyogen Senzaki e Paul Reps: 101 storie Zen
25 sep 17
The reader will find a selection from "The Collection of Stones and Sand" by Muju, a Japanese master of the thirteenth century, and other classic Zen texts, up to the end of the nineteenth century.

“Zen is not a sect but an experience.”
From this experience, which centers around the notion of satori, "enlightenment," an immense literature has emerged, with numerous branches, starting from the sixth century in China (under the name of Ch’an) and from the twelfth century to the present day in Japan (under the name of Zen). - quote from Adelphi -
Paolo Crepet: Non siamo capaci di ascoltarli Riflessioni sull'infanzia e l'adolescenza
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Paolo Crepet: Non siamo capaci di ascoltarli Riflessioni sull'infanzia e l'adolescenza
10 oct 17
For years, Paolo Crepet has traveled across Italy to meet with parents, students, teachers, and educators.

From this work of listening in the field, the reflections contained in the book have emerged.

It discusses boredom, creativity, drugs, happiness, well-meaning families, microcriminality, the right to emotions, solitude and technological autism, city politics, a new and gentle school, the resource of diversity, and the necessity to teach how to slow down our time.
(cit. einaudi.it)
Paolo Crepet: I figli non crescono più
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Paolo Crepet: I figli non crescono più
10 oct 17
- Many adolescents today do not feel compelled to walk alone.
To take risks.
To experience emotions, rebellions, responsibilities.
In this book, aimed at young people but also at their parents and teachers, Paolo Crepet addresses one of the strongest mortgages on the future of society. (cit. einaudi.it)

“Don’t listen to those who point out shortcuts, dare to take difficult paths, avoid everything that is comfortable, and be wary of those who propose it.
Let anger and thirst for restlessness grow inside you.
Don’t throw yourself away, learn to torment yourself without losing yourself.
Learn that you have the right to think that in life one can and should try and fail, and that no one should be able to judge you for the mistakes you will make, but rather for the omissions you admit to yourself.”
- Paolo Crepet -
Paolo Maurensig: La variante di Lüneburg
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Paolo Maurensig: La variante di Lüneburg
22 sep 17
Looking back, move by move, we will find two masters of the game, opposite in every way, fueled by an inexhaustible hatred, traversing the years and political cataclysms, primarily focused on sharpening their weapons to overpower each other. That one of them is Jewish and the other was a Nazi officer is just one of the various corollaries of the theorem. (from Adelphi)
Patricia Highsmith: Sconosciuti in treno
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Patricia Highsmith: Sconosciuti in treno
3 nov 17
Two strangers meet on a train and share their most hidden desires. One wishes for his dead wife, while the other confesses a desire to kill his father. This is how the idea of the perfect crime takes shape in one of their minds.

An gripping thriller that simultaneously analyzes the mechanics of the crime and the psychology of the two men, who will ultimately be bound to each other by a morbid relationship that will lead them to ruin. (lafeltrinelli.it)
Patricia Highsmith: Carol
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Patricia Highsmith: Carol
3 nov 17
Carol (The Price of Salt or Carol, in the original American edition), is a lesbian novel by PH, initially published under the pseudonym Claire Morgan in '52 in an early censored version.
Patricia Highsmith: Vicolo cieco
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Patricia Highsmith: Vicolo cieco
3 nov 17
Walter Stackhose is a young lawyer who married Clara, a neurotic woman.
His marriage is a failure, but Walter manages to keep it intact until he meets Ellie, whom he falls passionately in love with...

Until Clara is found dead...

With a piercing gaze, PH takes us into the twisted mechanisms of the human mind, attempting to capture the moment when daily neurosis generates extreme horror. (lafeltrinelli.it)
Patricia Highsmith: Il talento di mister Ripley
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Patricia Highsmith: Il talento di mister Ripley
3 nov 17
Tom Ripley is a young man living in New York, struggling by any means to get by, including a series of small cons. One day, he is approached by a wealthy nautical industrialist, Herbert Greenleaf, who asks him to travel to Italy on the Amalfi Coast to persuade his son, Dickie, to return home to take care of the family business.

The novel inspired the eponymous film directed by Anthony Minghella in '99 and starring Matt Damon; a film had already been made in '60 (Delitto in pieno sole, directed by René Clément with Alain Delon).
Patricia Highsmith: Acque profonde
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Patricia Highsmith: Acque profonde
3 nov 17
Rationality, which had always guided Victor, seems to take another path, and Victor transforms into a cold and determined killer ready to take justice into his own hands. A journey into the most hidden mechanisms of the unconscious that reveals how sometimes self-control is merely the most insidious of neuroses, capable of turning an apparently tranquil man into a psychopathic murderer. (from ibs.it)
Patricia Highsmith: Il grido della civetta
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Patricia Highsmith: Il grido della civetta
3 nov 17
Robert Forester is a mentally unstable man who spends his free time spying on people. In this singular activity, he becomes particularly fascinated by the serenity of Jenny, a pretty and calm girl, who for him represents happiness and the absence of any disturbance, the exact opposite of Nickie, his ex-wife who often made him anxious. The two end up getting to know each other, and Jenny becomes captivated by Robert's personality to the point of deciding to leave Greg, her boyfriend, and confess her love to Robert.

It would be a story of ordinary infatuation if Jenny weren’t found dead under dangerous circumstances. (lafeltrinelli.it)
Patricia Highsmith: La spiaggia del dubbio
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Patricia Highsmith: La spiaggia del dubbio
3 nov 17
Tunisia: a landscape of lights and deep shadows, a world where human life is a commodity displayed in a souk at sunset: neither more precious nor less common than many others.

Is it possible to reconstruct a more authentic, more solid identity, beyond any common moral sense? And if this is the question, can a criminal act be the answer?
(from ibs.it)
Patricia Highsmith: Il sepolto vivo
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Patricia Highsmith: Il sepolto vivo
3 nov 17
Six years after the events described in "The Talented Mr. Ripley," Tom Ripley, now in his thirties, lives a comfortable life, thanks to the inheritance from Dickie Greenleaf and occasional collaborations with an international smuggler, residing in a large villa, "Belle Ombre," in the French countryside. He lives with his French wife, Héloïse Plisson, who, however, is currently on vacation in Greece.

The novel ends with Ripley in bed with Héloïse, who has chosen to ignore what her husband has truly done and the source of his wealth. The ringing of the phone throws Ripley into a panic, making him fear that it might be the police wanting to investigate further the suspicious deaths of so many people he knows. (wiki)
Patricia Highsmith: L'amico americano
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Patricia Highsmith: L'amico americano
3 nov 17
This is the third book centered around the character of Tom Ripley after "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Ripley Under Ground."

The novel was first adapted in 1977 by Wim Wenders into the eponymous film, featuring Dennis Hopper in the role of Ripley and Bruno Ganz as Trevanny (it is a rather loose adaptation that mixes parts drawn from the previous volume of the cycle), and in 2002 a new adaptation was released by Liliana Cavani: "Ripley's Game" with John Malkovich as Ripley (this is a version more faithful to the original, although the main action takes place in the Veneto rather than in France, and the mobsters are Slavic instead of Italian).
- excerpt from wikipedia -
Patricia Highsmith: Il ragazzo di Tom Ripley
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Patricia Highsmith: Il ragazzo di Tom Ripley
3 nov 17
Tom Ripley's talent is not only to kill but also to help overcome the guilt of having committed a crime. And that's exactly what he tries to do with the young Frank, who is convinced he has caused the death of his invalid father. Under the guidance of master Tom, Frank embarks on a real coming-of-age journey, from France to a Germany teeming with swindlers, kidnappers, and terrorists, entering a spiral of crimes, deceit, and betrayals that leaves one breathless. (lafeltrinelli.it)
Patricia Highsmith: Gente che bussa alla porta
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Patricia Highsmith: Gente che bussa alla porta
3 nov 17
One day, a "seller of God's word" knocks on the door of the Alderman family. This event will inevitably draw the entire family into an endless spiral of madness, leading to tragedy...
(lafeltrinelli.it)
Patricia Highsmith: Ripley sott'acqua
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Patricia Highsmith: Ripley sott'acqua
3 nov 17
Tom Ripley has a beautiful villa in Fontainebleau, a charming and devoted wife, a substantial bank account, and a clear conscience, though not an immaculate one. To disturb his well-deserved peace, painstakingly achieved after the murders in "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "The American Friend," this time it is Pitchard, an eccentric neighbor who senses the illicit origins of Ripley's well-being and happiness and has decided to delve into his suspicions. (lafeltrinelli.it)
Patricia Highsmith: Idilli d’estate
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Patricia Highsmith: Idilli d’estate
3 nov 17
In this 1995 novel (the last one, sigh...), we witness a murder at the beginning and an accidental death at the end.

PH discusses homosexuality in a neutral tone, without moral judgments or as a sin.

We are in Zurich, described in summer: a young man, a twenty-something gay, is stabbed by two sad figures outside a cinema... (from sololibri.net)
Patrick McGrath: Grottesco
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Patrick McGrath: Grottesco
22 sep 17
Sir Hugo Coal had never been a philanthropist. Even when he wasn't vegetating in a wheelchair, he had a tendency to view human beings – their actions, their motives – as less comprehensible and less elegant than the enormous dinosaur skeleton he was patiently reconstructing.
Patrick McGrath: Il morbo di Haggard
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Patrick McGrath: Il morbo di Haggard
22 sep 17
London, 1940. As Spitfires and Göring's Messerschmitts cross the sky, Dr. Haggard receives a visit from James Vaughan, a young aviator who introduces himself with a lethal sentence: "I think you knew my mother."
Abruptly torn from his vials of morphine and the fetishistic cult of a woman lost forever, Haggard embarks on a long, tormenting confession, recounting for the first time the events that three years earlier destroyed his life.
(from Adelphi)
Patrick McGrath: Follia
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Patrick McGrath: Follia
22 sep 17
“The love stories characterized by sexual obsession have been my professional interest for many years.”
England, 1959.
From within a gloomy Victorian criminal asylum, a psychiatrist begins to present, with apparent detachment, the most disturbing clinical case he has encountered in his career – the deadly passion between Stella Raphael, the wife of another psychiatrist at the hospital, and Edgar Stark, an artist imprisoned for a particularly heinous uxoricide. (from Adelphi)
Paul Auster: Lulu on the Bridge
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Paul Auster: Lulu on the Bridge
26 sep 17
They say that at the point of death, every man reviews his entire life in a flash.
But who knows, perhaps in that fraction of a second we will be granted another opportunity, a second chance: the life that will unfold before our eyes will be the one we did not know, want, or could have had.
From this narrative idea begins a melancholic fairy tale that manages to become a great love story, and at the same time a "metaphysical thriller" (quote Einaudi).
Paul Auster: Il libro delle illusioni
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Paul Auster: Il libro delle illusioni
26 sep 17
What happened to Hector Mann?
The star of a brief and dazzling career in 1920s Hollywood, the actor vanished into thin air.
His silent comedies are now part of cinema history, alongside those of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd.
But what drove, or forced, him to flee from a bright future on a January day in 1929?
When David Zimmer sees a Hector Mann film for the first time, he rediscovers the smile he hadn't worn for many months. (cit. Einaudi)
Paul Auster: Trilogia di New York
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Paul Auster: Trilogia di New York
27 sep 17
Originally published between 1985 and 1987, the three novels City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room, which make up the New York Trilogy, have become classics of contemporary American literature. (Einaudi)
Paul Auster: Il racconto di Natale di Auggie Wren
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Paul Auster: Il racconto di Natale di Auggie Wren
27 sep 17
From this story came "Smoke" starring Harvey Keitel & William Hurt, directed by Wayne Wang in 1995, followed by "Blue in the Face" featuring Harvey Keitel, Michael J. Fox, Jim Jarmusch, Lou Reed, Mira Sorvino & Madonna.

Film tag-line:
Five strangers.
Four secrets.
Three schemes.
Two best friends.
And a neighborhood hangout where the world still makes sense.
Paul Auster: Timbuctù
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Paul Auster: Timbuctù
27 sep 17
An eccentric, globe-trotting poet, Willy G. Christmas, and his companion Mr. Bones, a four-legged Sancho Panza always ready to lend him his attention.
(Einaudi)
Paul Auster: Nel paese delle ultime cose
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Paul Auster: Nel paese delle ultime cose
27 sep 17
Anna Blume recounts her hallucinatory adventure in an unnamed and devastated land: she has arrived in the Country of Last Things, in the apocalyptic city of terror. (Einaudi)
Peter Green: The End Of The Game
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Peter Green: The End of the Game
7 sep 17
Well, here on Debasio there are two reviews, the excellent one by "Charley" written on August 30, 2006, during the late-night show (which I read and commented on at the time) & the more recent and rather uninteresting one by "Allegretti" from May 20, 2011.
  • CosmicJocker
    7 sep 17
    Maybe sooner or later I will make a third one...
  • Stanlio
    7 sep 17
    you absolutely must, cosmic friend
Ravi Shankar: West Meets East
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Ravi Shankar: West Meets East
19 sep 17
With the violinist Yehudi Menuhin
Ravi Shankar: Chappaqua
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Ravi Shankar: Chappaqua
19 sep 17
Soundtrack of the eponymous film,
The movie is based on experiences with drug addiction and includes appearances and cameos by William S. Burroughs, Swami Satchidananda, Allen Ginsberg, Moondog, Ornette Coleman, The Fugs, and Ravi Shankar himself.
Ravi Shankar: Live: Ravi Shankar at the Monterey International Pop Festival
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Ravi Shankar: Live: Ravi Shankar at the Monterey International Pop Festival
19 sep 17
Accompanied on percussion by the trusty Maestro (of Indian Tabla) Alla Rakha.
Ravi Shankar: A Morning Raga / An Evening Raga
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Ravi Shankar: A Morning Raga / An Evening Raga
19 sep 17
If one is not familiar with the sitar, these two tracks can give a good idea of what it is:

"Raga Nata Bhairav" 23:18

"Raga Mishra Piloo" 24:32
Ravi Shankar: West Meets East, Volume 2 with Yehudi Menuhin
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Ravi Shankar: West Meets East, Volume 2 with Yehudi Menuhin
19 sep 17
Track listing (All selections by Ravi Shankar except where noted):

Side 1
"Raga Piloo" – 14:44
"Raga Ananda Bhairava" – 15:37

Side 2
"Sonata for Violin & Piano No. 1" (Béla Bartók) – 33:13

Musicians:

Yehudi Menuhin – violin
Ravi Shankar – sitar
Alla Rakha – tabla
Hephzibah Menuhin – piano
N.C. Mullick – tambura
Kamala Chakravarty – tambura
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
2 oct 17
- In novel form, it was first published in 1953 in the emerging magazine Playboy, in the second, third, and fourth issues.
- Set in an unspecified future after 1960, it describes a dystopian society where reading or owning books is considered a crime, for which a special firemen's corps has been established, dedicated to burning every type of volume.
- In 1966, the book was adapted into a film of the same name directed by François Truffaut.
- «Listen to me, Montag: in all our careers, we all get a curiosity about what's in those books; it strikes us like a kind of itch, right? Well, trust me, Montag, there's nothing in there, books have nothing to say!»
(cit. wiki)
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