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Ultravox: Rage in Eden
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Ultravox: Rage in Eden
9 sep 17
“Rage In Eden” often takes on the density of a religious chant, stripped of arches and columns, light and incense scents.

The light that filters through is that of day, at any hour, but never with a direct beam of sunlight.

The filter is the gray color of glass.

The physical place is the cold stone of the cemetery.

The four musicians choose fierce moments to chew on despair.

Their skill is as icy as the memory of Lennon or Marilyn's death (“I Remember - Death In The Afternoon”).

And everything is systematically filtered through the cold use of keyboards and electronic percussion.

There is more meditation and less improvisation; the album's recording took three months.

Billy Currie increasingly feels his classical influences, between Tchaikovsky and Béla Bartók, and the warmth of his viola.
(cit. P. De Bernardin)
Ultravox: Quartet
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Ultravox: Quartet
9 sep 17
The artistic production is curated by George Martin, former producer of the Beatles from '63 to '70.

It is certainly very difficult to stay afloat in England, where trends and rhythms follow one after another without pause.

However, "Quartet" succeeds fully, tapping into what others have overlooked: simplicity.

The lyrics of the songs and their attire have changed.

Perhaps part of the credit goes to the measured production by George Martin; the fact is that the sound has undergone a significant improvement (it must have definitely been those "visions in blue").

Ultravox shakes off the burden of age with a single gesture: "Quartet."

One last thing to note: the recording, like the album, is excellent.

It's digital.

(quote G. Jandelli)
Ultravox: Ultravox!
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Ultravox: Ultravox!
9 sep 17
I M P E R D I B I L E

is the first album by the English group released in 1976 and features none other than Mr. Brian Eno as the producer.
Ultravox: Vienna
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Ultravox: Vienna
9 sep 17
In this album, Midge Ure takes over from John Foxx, who leaves the band to pursue a solo career.
Ultravox: Lament
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Ultravox: Lament
9 sep 17
Of this album, there is an excellent review written by Indio for DeBasio on July 11, 2008, around noon.
Umberto Eco: Sei passeggiate nei boschi narrativi
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Umberto Eco: Sei passeggiate nei boschi narrativi
12 oct 17
Born as six lectures of the "Charles Eliot Norton Lectures" at Harvard University, it deals with the rhetoric of narrative processes with examples drawn from Italo Calvino, Achille Campanile, Carolina Invernizio, Gustave Flaubert, Ian Fleming, Roger Schank's theories on artificial intelligence, Gérard de Nerval, the act of reading according to Wolfgang Iser, Mickey Spillane, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexandre Dumas and the Parisian topography, Alessandro Manzoni, as well as some Hollywood films, the concepts of possible worlds and open works, the false and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and the general problem of the credibility of narrative texts and the ways and expectations with which novels are read as if they were traversing a forest ("The forest is a metaphor for the narrative text; not only for fairy tale texts but for every narrative text").
cit. wikipedia
Umberto Eco: La bustina di minerva
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Umberto Eco: La bustina di minerva
12 oct 17
"La bustina di Minerva" is a column that began on the last page of "Espresso" in March 1985 and continued weekly until March 1998, when it became bi-weekly. The "Bustine" have been selected and collected in this book.

The topics range from reflections on the contemporary world, Italian society, the press, the fate of books in the Internet era, to some cautious predictions about the third millennium and a series of "divertimenti" or short stories.

The collection gives meaning to the column, which, as the title suggests, aimed to gather those occasional and often extravagant notes that are sometimes scribbled on the inside of those matchbook covers known as Minerva.
Umberto Eco: Sulla letteratura
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Umberto Eco: Sulla letteratura
12 oct 17
The 2002 book contains 18 essays, most of the texts were written between 1990 and 2002; with the exception of "Le sporcizie della forma," originally written in 1954, and "Il mito americano di tre generazioni antiamericane" from 1980:
1. On some functions of literature
2. Reading Paradise
3. On the style of the Manifesto
4. The mists of Valois
5. Wilde. Paradox and aphorism
6. A portrait of the artist as a bachelor
7. Between La Mancha and Babel
8. Borges and my anguish of influence
9. On Camporesi: blood body, life
10. On the symbol
11. On style
12. Les sémaphores sous la pluie
13. Le sporcizie della forma
14. Intertextual irony and levels of reading
15. Poetics and us
16. The American myth of three anti-American generations
17. The strength of the false
18. How I write
Umberto Eco: Il pendolo di Foucault
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Umberto Eco: Il pendolo di Foucault
12 oct 17
- ... is divided into ten segments that represent the ten Sephirot. The novel is rich in esoteric references to the Kabbalah, alchemy, and conspiracy theory, so much so that literary critic and novelist Anthony Burgess suggested that an index would be useful.

- ... the narrating "I" is initially a student and then a young professional in publishing in Milan. Through a series of events, he finds in the myth of the Knights Templar his true cultural and professional raison d'être. However, from this myth branch out a series of threads that correspond to the more hidden or the more rejected parts of so-called Western civilization. Through the discovery of these threads, we meet the other characters in the novel, some good, others less so, but all interested in something. (wikipedia)
Umberto Eco: L'isola del giorno prima
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Umberto Eco: L'isola del giorno prima
12 oct 17
In the summer of 1643, a young man from Piedmont finds himself shipwrecked in the southern seas on a deserted ship.
Before him lies an island he cannot reach.
Around him, an apparently welcoming environment.
Alone, on an unknown sea, Roberto de la Grive sees for the first time in his life skies, waters, birds, plants, fish, and corals that he cannot name.
He writes love letters, through which his story is hinted at: a slow and traumatic initiation into the seventeenth-century world of new science, state reason, and a cosmos in which the Earth is no longer at the center of the universe. (ibs.it)

- The entire book depicts psychological situations, philosophical theories, and worldviews in dialectical contrast, and Eco concludes that his narrative does not have a worthy ending to be told. (wikipedia)
Umberto Eco: Il Nome Della Rosa
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Umberto Eco: Il Nome Della Rosa
12 oct 17
- Umberto Eco, with a considerable number of essays behind him, had the idea of writing a novel in '78 when a publisher told him he wanted to curate the publication of a series of short crime novels.
- Eco claimed that if he ever wrote a crime novel, it would be a book of 500 pages featuring medieval monks as protagonists.
- What seemed like a joke took shape in the author's mind when he envisioned a poisoned monk in a library while reading.
- The novel was adapted into a film of the same name directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud in 1986, featuring Sean Connery and Christian Slater.
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