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Hatfield and the North: Hatfield and the North
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Hatfield and the North: Hatfield and the North
7 sep 17
It's their debut album as an English progressive rock band from the Canterbury scene, released in 1974.

Side A:

The Stubbs Effect (Pyle) – 0:22
Big Jobs (Poo Poo Extract) (Sinclair/Pyle) – 0:36
Going Up To People And Tinkling (Stewart) – 2:25
Calyx (Miller) – 2:45
Son Of "There's No Place Like Homerton" (Stewart) – 10:10
Aigrette (Miller) – 1:37
Rifferama (Sinclair arr. Hatfield and the North) – 2:56

Side B:

Fol De Rol (Sinclair/Wyatt) – 3:07
Shaving Is Boring (Pyle) – 8:45
Licks For The Ladies (Sinclair/Pyle) – 2:37
Bossa Nochance (Sinclair) – 0:40
Big Jobs No. 2 (By Poo And The Wee Wees) (Sinclair/Pyle) – 2:14
Lobster In Cleavage Probe (Stewart) – 3:57
Gigantic Land Crabs In Earth Takeover Bid (Stewart) – 3:21
  • Stanlio
    7 sep 17
    Musicians:

    Phil Miller – guitar
    Dave Stewart – keyboards, synthesizer
    Richard Sinclair – bass, vocals
    Pip Pyle – drums

    Guests:

    Robert Wyatt – vocals (track 4)
    Geoff Leigh – tenor saxophone (track 5), flute (tracks 5 and 13)
    Didier Malherbe – tenor saxophone (track 7)
    Jeremy Baines – pixiphone (track 5), flute (track 13)
    The Northettes (Amanda Parsons, Barbara Gaskin, and Ann Rosenthal) – backing vocals (tracks 5, 13, and 17)
    Cyrille Ayers – vocals (track 8)
    Sam Ellidge – vocals (track 7)
    Clive Williamson – whistling (track 9)
Heinrich Böll: Il treno era in orario
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Heinrich Böll: Il treno era in orario
2 oct 17
Set during World War II, it follows Andreas, a young German soldier traveling on a military train to reach Przemysl and fight on the Eastern front. During the journey, Andreas befriends a homosexual comrade and a betrayed husband. Upon arrival, the soldiers decide to spend the night, before heading to the front, in a brothel. There, Andreas meets Olina, a Polish prostitute...
(cit. Einaudi)
Heinrich Böll: L'onore perduto di Katharina Blum
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Heinrich Böll: L'onore perduto di Katharina Blum
2 oct 17
- The facts, from which we might do well to begin, are brutal: on Wednesday, February 20, 1974, the eve of the Women's Carnival, a twenty-seven-year-old woman leaves her city home around 6:45 PM to attend a private dance party. (cit. Einaudi)
- In a preface to the story, Böll states: "The characters and the action of this story are completely fictional. In the event that certain journalistic practices are found to resemble those of the Bild-Zeitung, these similarities are neither intended nor coincidental, but rather inevitable." The author, who had firsthand experience of how media power can overlap with private life, distorting and deforming it... (cit. wiki)
Heinrich Böll: Foto di gruppo con signora
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Heinrich Böll: Foto Di Gruppo Con Signora
2 oct 17
- ... tells the story of Leni Gruyten, a forty-eight-year-old German woman who "no longer understands the world and doubts she ever did." Leni lives on the fringes of post-war Germany's consumerist society, opposing the values of capitalism with her own world made of minimal but deeply felt and authentic values... (from wiki)
- Heinrich Böll takes on the role of a chronicler, following in the footsteps of all those who knew her: from the poet brother who destroys himself to escape the abjection of Nazism to Sister Rahel, from the businessman Polzer to the prostitute Margret.
Through photos, letters, personal objects... (cit. Einaudi)
Heinrich Böll: E non disse nemmeno una parola
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Heinrich Böll: E non disse nemmeno una parola
2 oct 17
- The novel reflects the issues faced by many couples in the post-war period.
- The title comes from the fact that in the fourth chapter, Käte listens to a song on the radio And he never said a mumbling word.
- Böll somewhat compares Käte to Jesus Christ: just as Christ endured many humiliations without saying a word, she too endures everything without rebelling.
(quoted from Einaudi)
Heinrich Böll: Termine di un viaggio di servizio
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Heinrich Böll: Termine di un viaggio di servizio
2 oct 17
A trial against Johann and Georg Gruhl is entrusted to Magistrate Stollfuss; it is his last case. They are accused of setting fire to an army truck at the end of a service trip. Numerous witnesses were present at the event because the two burned the vehicle in a field after dousing it in gasoline, and they did so openly: in fact, witnesses report that they sang to the rhythm of the crackling gasoline drums... Georg Gruhl's service trip involved driving aimlessly around in a truck... to the embarrassment of the prosecution and the judge, the Gruhls will be sentenced to damages and to six weeks in prison, which they have already served during pre-trial detention, during which young Gruhl also managed to impregnate the young waitress who brought him meals in his cell... (cit. Einaudi)
Heinrich Böll: Opinioni di un clown
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Heinrich Böll: Opinioni di un clown
2 oct 17
- The story unfolds over a span of about three hours in the year 1962. Hans Schnier is a young clown living in Bonn, the city where the action described in the novel takes place. After yet another unsuccessful performance, back in his lodgings, Hans indulges in a long self-pitying monologue about himself and what torments him most: the abandonment by the woman he lived with, Maria.
- Post-Nazi Germany faced a long period of economic and social misery before initiating the reconstruction process. - The clown's lengthy lament provides the author with an opportunity to describe the conventions of that conservative bourgeoisie which was initially supportive of, or at least not hostile to, Nazism and, once Germany returned to democracy, was ready to reintroduce its rituals and prejudices within the new social framework.
(cit. Einaudi)
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
22 sep 17
Moby Dick is not just the marvelous novel that everyone knows: it is a total book, where the Whale ("the Whale") stands for the whole ("the Whole"). (quoted from Adelphi)
Hermann Hesse: Narciso e Boccadoro
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Hermann Hesse: Narciso e Boccadoro
21 sep 17
It is not our task to draw closer, just as the sun and the moon do not approach each other, nor do the sea and the land.

You and I, dear friend, are the sun and the moon, we are the sea and the land.

Our goal is not to transform into one another, but to know each other and to learn to see and respect in the other what he is: our opposite and our complement.

(Narciso the monk to Boccadoro the wandering artist)
Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha
21 sep 17
The success of the book came two decades after its publication and was buoyed by the Nobel Prize awarded to Hesse in 1946. It was largely the result of young people who made the figure of Siddhartha a compendium of adolescent restlessness, the anxiety of self-discovery, and the pride of the individual in the face of the world and history, united in an uncompromising rejection.
(cit. wiki)
Hermann Hesse: La cura
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Hermann Hesse: La cura
21 sep 17
The Glass Bead Game (1925), which follows shortly after Siddhartha (1922) and is in a way “the other side” of it.

Just as there one witnessed a journey toward enlightenment, here we “unpack” a self-assured Western enlightened man, who is put into crisis by small everyday incidents – and from this, he is led to reconsider certain of his overly complacent beliefs.

But the endpoint is the same: in that “psychology of the cosmic eye” which is the great gift of Hesse, before which “there is no longer anything small, foolish, ugly, or wicked, but everything is sacred and venerable” (cit. Adelphi).
Hermann Hesse: Peter Camenzind
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Hermann Hesse: Peter Camenzind
21 sep 17
The story tells of a Suchende – that is, a seeker, as most of the characters of the German writer are – named Peter Camenzind, who leaves his village as a young boy to dedicate himself to studies and then works as a writer. A very refined character, through his pilgrimages he learns to know the city, the world, and humanity through experiences, sometimes positive and sometimes negative, that will mark him. (from wiki)
Hermann Hesse: Sotto la ruota
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Hermann Hesse: Sotto la ruota
21 sep 17
- There are various autobiographical elements in the story, as Hesse as a young man attended and was expelled from the seminary described with the 'diagnosis' of nervous breakdown.

- The young protagonist will have to confront, on one side, the demanding and cold pedagogy of the time (the wheel under which he will ultimately find himself crushed), and on the other, the deeper desires and inspirations he nurtures within himself. (from wiki)
Hermann Hesse: Demian
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Hermann Hesse: Demian
21 sep 17
Written during World War I, it emerged from a profound inner crisis experienced by the author, leading him to make a radical turn not only in his literary journey but also in his existential and human path.

In Demian, there are indeed autobiographical echoes of Hesse's reflection on his tormented adolescence, which he claimed to have come to a rational understanding of only twenty years later, precisely thanks to this work. (cit. wiki)
Hermann Hesse: L'ultima estate di Klingsor
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Hermann Hesse: L'ultima estate di Klingsor
21 sep 17
The autobiographical novel is set in Switzerland, by Lake Lugano. The painter Klingsor is just over forty but has had a full and passionate life: his existence, consumed by deep passions, is nearing its end. It is summer, the summer that will be the painter's last. He lives intensely but restlessly with his lifelong obsessions: painting, the joy of creation, friendship, romantic loves, the enchantment of nature. But time passes inexorably towards the final epilogue.

"A fiery and intense summer had begun. The scorching days, though long, fled like banners ablaze, while the brief and sultry moonlit nights alternated with brief and sultry nights of rain, the splendid weeks passed deliriously like swift dreams, overloaded with visions."
(Hermann Hesse)
Hermann Hesse: Il lupo della steppa
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Hermann Hesse: Il Lupo Della Steppa
21 sep 17
The book tells the story of a deep psychological suffering that strikes the protagonist at the threshold of middle age (the same age as the author during the period he writes the novel). Harry struggles with a strong conflict regarding his own personality; the path to healing is the reconciliation of the two antithetical and opposing parts within him through humor, laughter, that is, even in relation to oneself and in the face of the inadequacy of society and the entire human culture. (from wiki)
Hermann Hesse: Il pellegrinaggio in Oriente
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Hermann Hesse: Il pellegrinaggio in Oriente
21 sep 17
Plot, the beginning:
The story of the Pilgrimage to the East is told in the first person, many years after the events narrated, by "H.H.", a German musician who, some time after the Great War, had joined the "League", an ancient and mysterious sect that had included some famous figures, both fictional and real, such as Plato, Mozart, Pythagoras, Paul Klee, Don Quixote, Tristram Shandy, Baudelaire, and the boatman Vasudeva, a character from Siddhartha.
The group that H.H. had joined decided to travel on foot to the "East" for a very elevated purpose, although destined to remain a secret; the narrator also had a private aim: to meet the beautiful princess Fatma (from the Thousand and One Nights) and possibly win her love...
- excerpt from Wikipedia -
Hermann Hesse: Il giuoco delle perle di vetro
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Hermann Hesse: Il giuoco delle perle di vetro
21 sep 17
In this lengthy and complex novel, various themes dear to the author return, starting with the opposition between Spirit and Life, between theory and practice, between reflection and emotion. Hesse offers countless reflections and brings to light his strong aversion to war, and in some of his words, one can read an open critique of the Nazi regime. But above all, it is an important work on the beauty and delicacy of the soul, in its various forms and in the creations that it is capable of producing. Every page of this book is enriched by profound considerations on various subjects: from history to politics, to philosophy, to psychology, to aesthetics. (cit. wiki)
Hermann Hesse: Dall'India
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Hermann Hesse: Dall'India
21 sep 17
In addition to the notes regarding the journey undertaken on the Indian subcontinent between September and December 1911, these writings testify to a lively and widespread interest in the European intellectual world at the turn of the last century. Thus, it represents an attempt to escape the anxieties of the present, from an oppressive family bond, but also and above all, a return to one's roots, to the distant cradle of a civilization that offers vivifying regeneration. In this way, India will increasingly lose its geographical connotation to transform into the hagiography of legend, understood as a universal quest for spiritual identity... (from mondadoristore.it)

"The East was not just a country or a geographical dimension, but it was the home and youth of the soul, it was everywhere and in every place, it was the union of all time." HH
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