Stanlio

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Joseph Conrad: Il duello
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
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
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
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
Cartaceo I sell it ★★★★★
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
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
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
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
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
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
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
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
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
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
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
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
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
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
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
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
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
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
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
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
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
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
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
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
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
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
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
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
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
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
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
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
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
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
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!
Cartaceo I have it ★★★
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
CD Dati I have it ★★★
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.
Katmandu: A Case for the Blues
CD Audio I have it
Katmandu: A Case for the Blues
7 sep 17
Band put together by Peter Green, with him on vocals, guitar, harmonica, and drums
Ray Dorset from "Mungo Jerry" – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, harmonica
Vincent Crane from "Dexys Midnight Runners" – keyboards
Len Surtees – bass guitar
Greg Terry-Short – drums
Jeff Whittaker – vocals, percussion, drums
  • Johnny b.
    7 sep 17
    I have a vinyl called Katmandu by a Led Zeppelin-style Hard Rock band. They are not the same band, or Katmandu is the song.
  • Johnny b.
    7 sep 17
    As it turns out, I was wrong.
  • Stanlio
    7 sep 17
    It happens, Jb, if I were given a cent for every time I messed up, I would be a millionaire...
King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King: An Observation by King Crimson
9 sep 17
: : : I n d i s p e n s a b l e : : :

From Epitaph ("epitaffio"), the third track of the album, a prophetic and dystopian tone:

« The fate of all mankind I see / Is in the hands of fools »

" The fate of all mankind that I see / is in the hands of fools "
King Crimson: In the Wake of Poseidon
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
King Crimson: In the Wake of Poseidon
9 sep 17
I n d i s p e n s a b l e

The album cover is a painting from 1967 by the London artist Tammo De Jongh, titled: 'The 12 Archetypes' or 'The 12 Faces Of Humankind' and depicts twelve human faces, each of which symbolizes an archetype, according to a peculiar physiognomy theorized by the homeopath and radiesthete John De Monte, who based on his theories, had commissioned TDJ the twelve portraits.
  • dsalva
    10 sep 17
    Of course you pulled off a trifecta of I M P R E S C I N D I B I L E masterpieces!!
King Crimson: Islands
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
King Crimson: Islands
10 sep 17
I N D I S P E N S A B L E

Tracks:
Side A
1. Formentera Lady - 10:14 - (Peter Sinfield - Robert Fripp)
2. Sailor's Tale - 7:21 - (Robert Fripp)
3. The Letters - 4:26 - (Peter Sinfield - Robert Fripp)

Side B
1. Ladies of the Road - 5:28 - (Peter Sinfield - Robert Fripp)
2. Prelude: Song of the Gulls - 4:14 - (Robert Fripp)
3. Islands - 12:00 - (Peter Sinfield - Robert Fripp)

In reality, Islands lasts 9:15. There follows a minute of silence (9:15 - 10:15) after which a untitled ghost track can be heard (10:15 - 12:00)
King Crimson: Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
King Crimson: Larks' Tongues in Aspic
10 sep 17
I n d e l e b l e

In Larks' Tongues in Aspic, part two, the electric guitar chords of the introductory theme, with their violent and martial rhythmic figures, "allude" (by the admission of the author himself) to the opening bars of "Les augures printani - Danse des adolescentes" from Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

In 1974, the producers of the famous soft-core film "Emmanuelle" used, without Fripp's permission and without crediting him as the author, a re-orchestrated version of this piece to accompany almost all the sex scenes, including three rapes: the controversy was resolved with a settlement in favor of Fripp, who received compensation.
King Crimson: Red
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
King Crimson: Red
10 sep 17
I n d i s p e n s a b l e

Immediately after the release of Red, Fripp announced to the press that King Crimson had "ceased to exist," and shortly thereafter he retired to the community founded three years earlier by Bennett, the International Academy for Continuous Education in Sherborne, Gloucestershire, where he remained for almost two years without contact with the guitar or the music world.

King Crimson effectively disappeared until 1981.

The connection between Fripp and the legacy of Bennett, Ouspensky, and Gurdjieff was destined to remain constant, profoundly inspiring both the artistic and personal choices of the guitarist, up to the present.
King Crimson: Discipline
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
King Crimson: Discipline
10 sep 17
I n d i s p e n s a b l e

Discipline is the first album after a seven-year break; it is an eclectic record, very close to the sound of the Talking Heads' "Remain in Light," to which Fripp and Belew had recently contributed.

Disturbing for those who were used to the early King Crimson, it is now essential like "In the Court of the Crimson King," "Larks' Tongues in Aspic," or "Red," blending typical '80s new wave sounds with the heavy and dark atmospheres of the previous decade.
(quote from wiki)
King Crimson: Beat
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
King Crimson: Beat
10 sep 17
I n e l u c t a b l e

The "Trouser Press Record Guide" reports that the album is centered around the 25th anniversary of the publication of "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac.

The album's title is also due to the strong inspiration drawn from writers of the Beat Generation, such as Allen Ginsberg.
King Crimson: Three of a Perfect Pair
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
King Crimson: Three of a Perfect Pair
10 sep 17
I n d i s p e n s a b l e

It became famous because it was divided into two distinct sides: the first side contained the more accessible tracks; the second, however, contained tracks that were more experimental.

It was a kind of favor reserved for King Crimson fans who only enjoyed the catchier songs, thus preventing the listener from skipping the songs they did not like.
King Crimson: THRAK
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
King Crimson: THRAK
10 sep 17
I n d i s p e n s a b l e

The track B'Boom features the first drum solo ever recorded by King Crimson on a studio album.

Lyrics by Adrian Belew, music by King Crimson.

Tracks:
VROOOM – 4:37
Marine 475 – 2:41
Dinosaur – 6:35
Walking on Air – 4:34
B'Boom – 4:11
THRAK – 3:58
Inner Garden I – 1:47
People – 5:53
Radio I – 0:43
One Time – 5:21
Radio II – 1:02
Inner Garden II – 1:15
Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream – 4:48
VROOOM VROOOM – 5:37
VROOOM VROOOM: Coda – 3:00
King Crimson: A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
King Crimson: A young person's guide to King Crimson
10 sep 17
I N D I S P E N S A B L E

First collection of KC

The tracks are mostly identical to the versions included in the albums, with some exceptions:

"Moonchild" from "In the Court of the Crimson King" is shorter, that is, without the long improvised section of the original version.

"Cadence and Cascade" from "In the Wake of Poseidon" is about a minute shorter.

While "Cat Food" features the version, also shortened, released as a single in 1970.

Finally, from the track "Larks' Tongues in Aspic - Part I," which lasts over thirteen minutes on the eponymous album, only the concluding part is extracted.
King Crimson: Lizard
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
King Crimson: Lizard
10 sep 17
I n d i s p e n s a b l e

Lizard is perhaps the King Crimson album most rich in jazz influences... (quote wiki)
Konrad Lorenz: E l’uomo incontrò il cane
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Konrad Lorenz: E l’uomo incontrò il cane
22 sep 17
Lorenz guides us here first towards the origins of the "encounter" between man and dog, when the relationship was primarily with their two very different ancestors: the jackal and the wolf. These origins leave their marks in all the complex forms of understanding, obedience, hatred, loyalty, and neurosis that have developed throughout history between dog and owner.
(from Adelphi)
Konrad Lorenz: L’anello di Re Salomone
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Konrad Lorenz: L’anello di Re Salomone
22 sep 17
Legend has it that a magical ring granted King Solomon the power to speak to animals and understand their language. Konrad Lorenz, one of the founders and foremost theorists of ethology, found, one could say, an equivalent of that ring by studying for many decades, with loving patience and keen observation, the behavior of animals, whom he always wanted to be surrounded by, not only in university laboratories but also in his private life. (from Adelphi)
Laurie Anderson: Home of the Brave
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Laurie Anderson: Home of the Brave
17 sep 17
It's an album partially derived from the soundtrack of the homonymous film.
Laurie Anderson: Mister Heartbreak
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Laurie Anderson: Mister Heartbreak
17 sep 17
Peter Gabriel also collaborated on the album.
Laurie Anderson: Big Science
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Laurie Anderson: Big Science
17 sep 17
Curiosity:
The famous single O Superman was used in the late '80s by our Ministry of Health as the soundtrack for advertisements promoting AIDS prevention.
Laurie Anderson: Strange Angels
Nastro Video I have it ★★★★★
Laurie Anderson: Strange Angels
17 sep 17
For this album, Laurie Anderson decided to take singing lessons and discovered that she had a mezzo-soprano voice.
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