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Salvatore Satta: Il giorno del giudizio
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Salvatore Satta: Il Giorno del Giudizio
22 sep 17
- an old family, the Sanna Carboni, of wealthy notaries, representatives of an authority that belongs, in every sense, to another world. The day of judgment follows the story of this family between the end of the last century and the early decades of our own: and, along with it, the entire town of Nuoro, from the notables to the "rich pale women who dreamed and grew sad in seclusion," from shepherds to bandits, to the idlers of the Corso, to priests, vagabonds, and prostitutes... (cit. Adelphi)
Samuel Beckett: Aspettando Godot
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Samuel Beckett: Aspettando Godot
2 oct 17
One gets the impression that Beckett, in his own home, is laughing malevolently behind our backs, while with a simple television interview he could clarify everything.
We would immediately say that, in our opinion, demanding this "open sesame" at all costs makes no sense. Establishing whether Godot is God, Happiness, or something else is of little importance; seeing if Vladimir and Estragon represent the petty bourgeoisie who wash their hands of it all, while Pozzo, the capitalist, brutally exploits Lucky, the proletariat, is perfectly legitimate, but the Christian "key" is equally legitimate, whereby everything, from the tree present on stage, which should represent the Cross, to Godot's white beard, can be explained with the Gospel in hand... (Carlo Fruttero)
Samuel Beckett: Finale di partita
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Samuel Beckett: Finale di partita
2 oct 17
Endgame is Beckett's major theatrical work, the most important text of his dramatic output and one of the most significant in all of his oeuvre.
(From the Introductory Note by Paolo Bertinetti)
Samuel Beckett: L'ultimo nastro di Krapp. Ceneri
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Samuel Beckett: L'ultimo nastro di Krapp. Ceneri
2 oct 17
- Krapp is an "old wreck" sitting at a table, dominated by a tape recorder and the boxes containing the reels he has recorded over the years.

- Krapp is a writer, but he does not entrust his reflections and memories to the page; instead, he delivers them to the new machine. This emblematic character of the mass-media era no longer needs to seek lost time. Everything has been recorded and cataloged.

(From the Introductory Note by Paolo Bertinetti)
Samuel Beckett: Watt
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Samuel Beckett: Watt
2 oct 17
Written during the war, in a small village in the Alps where Beckett had taken refuge to escape the Gestapo, Watt is noted for treating the unknowable home of Mr. Knott (and the mutable, silent, intangible Mr. Knott) like a logical positivist who, with his trusty grids of thought, bumps his nose against the mutability of being. But his paradoxical logocentric will, in the general absence of motivations for every occurrence, for every apparent choice, for every moment of life, will soon transform into an authentic "cognizione del dolore". (cit. Einaudi)
Samuel Beckett: Molloy
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Samuel Beckett: Molloy
2 oct 17
- Molloy is an old man without both legs. He is in the house of his deceased mother and recounts his pointless odyssey to reach her. He digresses, tells blatant lies. He is devoid of memory, but that doesn’t matter: what counts is not to stop telling the story because in storytelling lies the only chance of being alive.
- It is a fact that Molloy’s tale is sprinkled with humorous moments that arise precisely from the ridicule of important philosophical and ideological principles in our culture; but also from the mockery of basic topos of Western literature, such as that of romantic love. (From the afterword by Paolo Bertinetti)
Samuel Beckett: Murphy
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Samuel Beckett: Murphy
2 oct 17
- The plot revolves around the eponymous “depressed solipsist” Murphy who, urged by his lover Celia Kelly to find a job, starts working as a nurse at the Magdalen Mental Mercyseat and discovers that the madness of the patients is an alluring alternative to conscious existence.
- Murphy is an example of Beckett's great interest in the artistic and metaphorical possibilities of chess.
- Among the thinkers who influence Murphy's mind-body debate are Spinoza, Descartes... (cit. wiki)
Sándor Márai: La recita di Bolzano
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Sándor Márai: La recita di Bolzano
22 sep 17
"A gentleman from Venice!": this is how he introduces himself at the Cervo Inn, with his clothes tattered and stained with blood, having nothing with him but his dagger and his arrogance, that infamous adventurer whom readers will instantly recognize as Giacomo Casanova.
But why, now that after his daring escape from the Piombi he could resume his libertine existence wandering the courts of Europe, where the powerful are ready to open the doors of their palaces to him and the most beautiful women welcome him into their alcoves, why does Giacomo linger so long in Bolzano, in this city so "serious and virtuous," "orderly and full of common sense," and therefore "damnedly foreign" to him? (from Adelphi)
Sándor Márai: L’eredità di Eszter
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Sándor Márai: L’eredità di Eszter
22 sep 17
- "In life, there is a kind of invisible rule that whatever you start one day, sooner or later, you must bring to an end."

- Only Márai can compete with himself – and here, once again, he tells us a story that grips our minds in a vise until the last word is spoken. (cit. Adelphi)
Sándor Márai: Le braci
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Sándor Márai: Le Braci
22 sep 17
After forty-one years, two men, who were inseparable in their youth (one of those male friendships no less intense than the bond between identical twins), come together once more in a castle at the foot of the Carpathians. One has spent those decades in the Far East, while the other has not left his estate. But both have lived in anticipation of that moment. Nothing else mattered to them. Why? Because they share a secret that possesses a singular power: "a power that burns the fabric of life like malignant radiation, yet at the same time gives warmth to life and keeps it in tension." Everything converges towards a "duel without swords" – and one far more cruel. (from Adelphi)
Sandrone Dazieri: La cura del gorilla
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Sandrone Dazieri: La cura del gorilla
12 oct 17
Always standing tall like a Bruce Willis from Lower Lombardy, Sandrone Dazieri known as Gorilla finds himself, out of sheer chivalry and stubbornness, giving and taking blows in a dizzying whirlwind of slaughtered Albanians, murderous thugs, fantastic pseudo-publishers a bit shady and threatened with death, wicked dark ladies from the East, post-autonomous Torinese in full action, and charitable monsignors. (einaudi.it)
Sandrone Dazieri: Attenti al gorilla
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Sandrone Dazieri: Attenti al gorilla
12 oct 17
Sandrone Dazieri, former leoncavallino and ex-private investigator, has been hired to handle security at a party. Apparently, a simple and miserable job as usual, easy money with no effort. Too bad that in the middle of the reception, the host's daughter runs away and is found, shortly after, brutally killed.
Santana: Abraxas
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Santana: Abraxas
8 sep 17
A mix of salsa, blues, rock and roll, jazz and other influences that made it a classic. (quote from wiki)

The title of the album comes from this quote from the book "Demian" by Herman Hesse:

We were facing him and began to freeze inside from the effort.

We interrogated the painting, we berated it, made love with it, prayed: we called it mother, we called it whore and slut, we called it our beloved, we called it Abraxas...
  • Ilmoralista
    8 sep 17
    Now you're also listening to Satan's records, boy repent while you still have time, remember "The Devil is Public Enemy Number One, he is the ultimate tempter."
  • Stanlio
    8 sep 17
    It will be done, dear dad, or who knows what will happen, time will tell.

    As for the exorcism, revisit this "The Exorciccio"
Santana: Supernatural
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Santana: Supernatural
8 sep 17
The album marked the commercial comeback of guitarist Carlos Santana and is the best-selling record of all time by a Hispanic artist.
Santana: Caravanserai
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Santana: Caravanserai
8 sep 17
This album diverges significantly from the primal rhythm of Santana, which blended salsa, rock, and jazz, and is characterized by numerous instrumental passages that prevail over the sung tracks.

Caravanserai is the first in a series of Santana albums known for their increasingly complex musicality and marks the transition from the rock of the first three albums to a sound that leans much more towards jazz.
Santana: Oye como va / Samba pa ti
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Santana: Oye como va / Samba pa ti
8 sep 17
By now useless, I have worn it out...
Sigmund Freud: L'interpretazione dei sogni
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Sigmund Freud: L'interpretazione dei sogni
21 sep 17
The entire opening of "Traumdeutung," the title by which the work is often cited, aims to document how the desire to grasp the mysterious meaning of dreams is not a novelty for which psychoanalysis can take credit, but rather that this need is inherent to the species once it reaches a certain level of civilization. In fact, the inclination to elucidate the obscure meaning of dreams has roots in the most distant antiquity (beginning with the activities of dream interpreters in the Temples of Asclepius in archaic Greece, and of oniromancers throughout the ancient Near East, as also reported in the Bible - cf. the episode of Joseph and the "Dream of Pharaoh"; and from the work of the 2nd century A.D. by Artemidorus of Daldis "Interpretation of Dreams"). -cit. Wikipedia-
Sigmund Freud: Psicopatologia della vita quotidiana
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Sigmund Freud: Psicopatologia della vita quotidiana
21 sep 17
- The work analyzes and describes missed acts and the so-called symptomatic and random actions, which differ from missed acts due to the absence of the pretext constituted by a conscious intention, comparing them with the symptoms and typical manifestations of subjects affected by neurosis.
- Freud dedicates the last chapter of the work to the belief in chance and superstition, stating that at their core lies a mechanism of projection directed towards a specific event in the external world. The author expresses an analogy between superstitious behavior and paranoid behavior. (from wiki)
Sigmund Freud: Totem e tabù
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Sigmund Freud: Totem e tabù
21 sep 17
"Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Life of Savages and Neurotics" is a book published in 1913. It is a collection of four essays originally published in the journal Imago (1912-13) utilizing the application of psychoanalysis in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion.

The four essays are titled:
- The Horror of Incest
- Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence
- Animism, Magic, and the Omnipotence of Thoughts
- The Return of Totemism in Children
(from wiki)
Silvia Ballestra: La guerra degli Antò
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Silvia Ballestra: La guerra degli Antò
27 sep 17
Montesilvano, province of Pescara, October 1990.
Four young punks are trying to fight against the monotony of provincial life.
Antò, known as Lu Purk, wants to escape and decides to go study in Bologna, but the lectures do not excite him, so he heads for Amsterdam.
He will be joined by Antò Lu Zorru, who, upon receiving his military draft notice for Iraq, where the Gulf War is underway, decides to desert.
In Amsterdam, they manage to get themselves into all sorts of trouble until the police send them back to Italy. (Einaudi)
Silvia Ballestra: Compleanno dell'Iguana
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Silvia Ballestra: Compleanno dell'Iguana
27 sep 17
The book consists of a long story (or short novel) "La via per Berlino" and five other stories. The first three stories share the same environment and the same references. The protagonists are young people from the province of Pescara, misfits in a small-bourgeois provincial reality, closed and devoid of stimuli, where feeling on the margins becomes a virtue of a different moral code. A code that arises spontaneously from an instinct of opposition and destruction, rooted in the English punk of the '70s. (cit. italialibri.net)
Silvia Ballestra: Gli Orsi
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Silvia Ballestra: Gli Orsi
27 sep 17
A collection of stories about youth subculture, between provincial punks and rebellious college students.
(Feltrinelli)
Silvia Ballestra: Nina
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Silvia Ballestra: Nina
27 sep 17
A simple love story.
Nina and Bruno meet by chance in a record store.
She is 20 years old and attends university in Bologna, while he is a journalist at the editorial office of a daily newspaper in the same city.
A week later, their life together begins.
Moments of serenity are accompanied by those where existence suddenly seems to force the two young people into complicated choices, into abrupt changes of direction... (Rizzoli)
Silvia Ballestra: Il Compagno di mezzanotte
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Silvia Ballestra: Il Compagno di mezzanotte
27 sep 17
The novel unfolds over the course of a single night and is the final act of the triptych that includes "La giovinezza della signorina N.N." and "Nina." It is now late when Nina, sitting in a bar in her small town, encounters an old friend to whom she entrusts the story of a three-way friendship that concludes in the brief span of a summer at the end of high school. This novel is a dynamic, vivid reinterpretation of the themes of adolescence and friendship, in this case a female friendship among Nina, Nora, and Sonia. (from ibs.it)
Soma Morgenstern: Fuga e fine di Joseph Roth
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Soma Morgenstern: Fuga e fine di Joseph Roth
22 sep 17
We see evoked Roth's childhood and adolescence, his loves and female acquaintances, the discussions in the café with Stefan Zweig, Kesten, Musil, the apprenticeship as an alcoholic, the idiosyncrasy towards psychiatrists and psychologists, the dissolute and destructive years in Paris, the irruption of delirium and mental disconnections.
(cit. Adelphi)
Søren Kierkegaard: Aut - Aut
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Søren Kierkegaard: Aut - Aut
21 sep 17
Enten - Eller (in Danish) describes two stages of the life journey, one hedonistic, focused on worldly life, pleasure, and indifference to moral principles and values, the other based on ethical duty and responsibility, resulting in the renunciation of material goods to pursue a religious path (in the sense of the Latin expression "religare"), that is, to reunite the fragments of existence.
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