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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.
Laurie Anderson: Bright Red
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Laurie Anderson: Bright Red
17 sep 17
The album consists of two sections of seven tracks.

"Bright Red":
Speechless – 5:20 (Anderson)
Bright Red – 3:12 (Anderson)
The Puppet Motel – 3:09 (Anderson, Brian Eno)
Speak My Language – 3:38 (Anderson)
World Without End – 2:47 (Anderson)
Freefall – 4:32 (Anderson)
Muddy River – 3:02 (Anderson, Brian Eno)

and the remaining seven

"Tightrope":
Beautiful Pea Green Boat – 4:20 (Anderson)
Love Among the Sailors – 2:49 (Anderson)
Poison – 3:47 (Anderson, Brian Eno)
In Our Sleep – 2:31 (Anderson, Lou Reed)
Night in Baghdad – 3:23 (Anderson)
Tightrope – 5:58 (Anderson, Brian Eno)
Same Time Tomorrow – 3:51 (Anderson)
Laurie Anderson: O Superman (for Massenet)
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Laurie Anderson: O Superman (for Massenet)
17 sep 17
O Superman (for Massenet) is characterized by the repetition, for all eight minutes, of the syllable "Ah" in a robotic vocal tone; it is the debut single of electronic music by Laurie Anderson, released in October 1981.
Lenny Kravitz: Lenny
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Lenny Kravitz: Lenny
9 sep 17
In this album, the multi-instrumentalist Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz also plays a, um, S t i l o f o n o . . .
Lenny Kravitz: Mama Said
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Lenny Kravitz: Mama Said
9 sep 17
Among the musicians on this album, there was also Sean Lennon on piano.
Lenny Kravitz: Are You Gonna Go My Way
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Lenny Kravitz: Are You Gonna Go My Way
9 sep 17
Among the other instruments in this album, there are also:
1 flugelhorn
2 violas
3 violins
2 cellos
1 French horn
Lenny Kravitz: 5
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Lenny Kravitz: 5
9 sep 17
In this album, Craig Ross also plays a, um, B o t t i g l i a
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while Terry Manning plays a, um, P i a n o f o r t e G i o c a t t o l o.
Leonardo Sciascia: La strega e il capitano
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: La strega e il capitano
22 sep 17
Once again, what troubles Sciascia is stripping away the countless masks of power from History, until revealing its repugnant and primal face.
(cit. Adelphi)
Leonardo Sciascia: La scomparsa di Majorana
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: La scomparsa di Majorana
22 sep 17
"Subject: Disappearance (with intent to commit suicide) of Professor Ettore Majorana." A police document to initiate investigations on one of those cases, favored by Sciascia, where the unsolved enigma, with its hidden truth, compels one to go beyond the news, into the soul of a man. (quote, Adelphi)
Leonardo Sciascia: Il mare colore del vino
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: Il mare colore del vino
22 sep 17
... between the first and the last of these tales, a circularity is established: a circularity that is not that of the dog biting its own tail...
(L. Sciascia)
Leonardo Sciascia: Todo modo
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: Todo modo
22 sep 17
If we had to indicate a fictional form capable of revealing how that viscous mixture of power, which Italian politics had the unfortunate privilege of producing for many years, is composed and manifests itself, it would be sufficient to refer to the concise pages of Todo modo...
Leonardo Sciascia: Il contesto
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: Il contesto
22 sep 17
... he started writing this novel as a "diversion" – and soon it transformed into something terribly serious in his hands. In a nameless yet familiar country to us all, a series of murders and official funerals marks public life. With absolute clarity, but against a dark backdrop, the face of an anonymous protagonist is sketched in this story, that power which – in the words of Sciascia – "gradually degrades into the impenetrable form of a chain that we can roughly call mafioso" (from Adelphi).
Leonardo Sciascia: Il giorno della civetta
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: Il giorno della civetta
22 sep 17
Sciascia subjected the text to a delicate process of refinement, distilling it to its essential traits with the art of "cavare": and, seen years later, this work reveals itself more than ever as a cunning of art. (from Adelphi)
Leonardo Sciascia: Morte dell’inquisitore
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: Morte dell’inquisitore
22 sep 17
"It is an unfinished book, one that I will never complete, which I am always tempted to rewrite and that I do not rewrite, waiting to discover something more."
(L. Sciascia)
Leonardo Sciascia: Gli zii di Sicilia
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: Gli zii di Sicilia
22 sep 17
"And I felt like an acrobat balancing on a wire, looking at the world in a joy of flight and then flipping it over, flipping myself over, and seeing death beneath me, a wire suspending me over a vortex of human heads and lights, the drum rolling death. In short, I was seized by the fury to see everything from the inside, as if every person, every thing, every event were like a book that one opens and reads: even the book is a thing, you can place it on a table and just look at it, perhaps using it to prop up a wobbly table or to smack someone on the head: but if you open it and read it, it becomes a world; and why shouldn't everything be opened and read and become a world?" (from Gli zii di Sicilia)
Leonardo Sciascia: Occhio di capra
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: Occhio di capra
22 sep 17
... it is perhaps the most agile and sharp introduction to Sicilian civilization that we can read. The foundation is the richest and most mysterious: language. And Sciascia lovingly investigates it, recognizing in the most bizarre sayings the concretion of entire stories, obscure metaphysical intuitions, and fairy-tale themes... (quoted from Adelphi)
Leonardo Sciascia: Una storia semplice
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: Una Storia Semplice
22 sep 17
A simple story is a very complicated story, a Sicilian thriller, set against a backdrop of mafia and drugs. Yet never – and it is a real tour de force – does the author find himself compelled to mention either word.
(quote Adelphi)
Leonardo Sciascia: Il Consiglio d’Egitto
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: Il Consiglio d’Egitto
22 sep 17
Abdallah Mohamed ben Olman, the ambassador of Morocco, finds himself in Palermo in December 1782 due to a storm that has shipwrecked his vessel on the Sicilian shores. It is this circumstance that ignites in the mind of Abate Vella, a Maltese tasked with showing the ambassador the beauties of Palermo, an audacious plan: to transform the Arabic manuscript of any account of the prophet's life, preserved on the island, into a shocking political text, Il Consiglio d’Egitto, which would allow for the abolition of all feudal privileges and could therefore serve as a spark for a revolutionary plot. (from Adelphi)
Leonardo Sciascia: A ciascuno il suo
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: A ciascuno il suo
22 sep 17
Sober, bitter, subtly sarcastic, and at the same time clear and precise in its outlines, it tells the story of a pharmacist who "lived quietly, had never had any issues, didn't engage in politics," and one day receives an anonymous letter threatening him with death. (from Adelphi)
Leonardo Sciascia: Il cavaliere e la morte
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: Il cavaliere e la morte
22 sep 17
The protagonist of this novel is a police commissioner, whose only name here is Vice: a substitute, perhaps for something that is utterly absent, a stand-in for a reality that has already vanished, or stretched to the point of becoming unreal, like currency in times of inflation. (from Adelphi)
Leonardo Sciascia: Porte aperte
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: Porte aperte
22 sep 17
The judicial machinery is in motion – and from the very beginning, the shadow of the death penalty looms over the trial. In Italy, "si dorme con le porte aperte": this was one of the most sinister maxims of the regime, which was keen to emphasize, in the absence of freedom, its cult of order. (cited from Adelphi)
Leonardo Sciascia: 1912 + 1
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: 1912 + 1
22 sep 17
Pursuing two seemingly irreconcilable poetics, that of digression and that of conciseness, he manages to shed the greatest light on a subject precisely when he seems to be speaking of something else: he evokes a historical atmosphere by delving into the details of the process...
(from Adelphi)
Lev Tolstoj: La morte di Ivan Il’ic - Tre morti e altri racconti
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Lev Tolstoj: La morte di Ivan Il’ic - Tre morti e altri racconti
25 sep 17
If you want to have the immediate, undeniable sense of Tolstoy's greatness in just a few pages, you only need to open this book. A story seemingly among the most ordinary – a mediocre, indistinct character discovers, after a trivial domestic accident, that he is afflicted with a terminal illness – the tale of Ivan Il’ic is perhaps the work where, more than ever, death becomes presence, interlocutor, even the evocative power of a new reality. (quote from Adelphi)
Lewis Carroll: Le avventure di Alice nel paese delle meraviglie e Al di là dello Specchio
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Lewis Carroll: Le avventure di Alice nel paese delle meraviglie e Al di là dello Specchio
2 oct 17
"Age doesn't matter, whether you are important or insignificant: everyone returns to being a child."
Virginia Woolf

- On one hand, this can be read as a parable revealing the absurdities and inconsistencies of adult life; on the other hand, one immediately perceives a sophisticated linguistic skill, where the taste for paradox and pun, nonsense and parody, is expressed with unparalleled inventiveness.
- A classic, therefore, that has inspired many protagonists of twentieth-century literature from Queneau to Nabokov. (cit. Einaudi)
  • Almotasim
    4 oct 17
    Great book! Immediately brings to mind subjects like Mathematics, Scoria,...
Lo squalo: Peter Benchley
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Lo squalo: Peter Benchley
24 oct 17
This beautiful novel was adapted into the eponymous film, directed by Steven Spielberg in 1975 and featuring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, etc... It was the film that marked the success of the director, who had mostly directed high-quality television films like Duel and some episodes of "Columbo." The film differs in that it lacks the romantic subplot with the biologist Hooper, as well as the fact that Hooper survives, along with the police officer, the hunting mission. Three sequels have been made from "Jaws," and nothing... oh no, I can't say whether I liked the book or the film more.
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