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Victor Hugo: I miserabili
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Victor Hugo: I Miserabili
11 dec 17
This is a historical/social novel, published in 1862 and divided into 48 books, considered one of the cornerstone novels of 19th-century Europe, it was among the most popular and widely read of its time.
Victor Hugo: L'uomo che ride
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Victor Hugo: L'uomo che ride
11 dec 17
Parts of the novel describe the opulence and parasitism of the nobility, in contrast to the poverty in which the people find themselves. In particular, Hugo emphasizes that English nobles are referred to as lords, which in the English language means not only "master" but also "Lord" in a religious sense, "God." Indeed, subjects in English are also defined as subjects, meaning "submissive," but also broadly "citizens," "people."

The protagonist is himself a nobleman, the son of a noble severely punished for being "democratic" and "republican," thus close to the suffering people. The author brings to the public's attention the struggle that actually occurred between nobles of high moral stature, who were close to the people, and conservative nobles who, during that historical period, oppressed the population to enjoy enormous privileges. (source: wiki)
Vincenzo Cerami: Un borghese piccolo piccolo
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Vincenzo Cerami: Un borghese piccolo piccolo
5 oct 17
The novel tells the story of a government clerk who is nearing retirement. A year later, the eponymous film was made, directed by Mario Monicelli, featuring Alberto Sordi as the protagonist.
Vincenzo Cerami: Ragazzo di vetro
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Vincenzo Cerami: Ragazzo di vetro
5 oct 17
The glass boy is Stefano, a high school student, who the lens of Cerami halts on the threshold of adulthood. He moves amidst the quagmires of conflicting sensations that continuously explode and cancel each other out. His fear of nothingness is similar, but in the opposite direction, to that experienced by Aschenbach in "Death in Venice," the book Stefano opens like a breviary during the lazy days of a summer holiday. He is dominated by an anxiety for the absolute, a frantic need to upend and erase what is pale and mediocre.
Vincenzo Cerami: Johnny Stecchino
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Vincenzo Cerami: Johnny Stecchino
5 oct 17
It is the novel written by Roberto Benigni and Vincenzo Cerami from the screenplay of the eponymous film, directed by Benigni, and released in theaters in 1991 just before the publication of the book.
Vincenzo Cerami: Consigli a un giovane scrittore
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Vincenzo Cerami: Consigli a un giovane scrittore
5 oct 17
Vincenzo Cerami is a storyteller, screenwriter, librettist, and playwright: who better than him to open the doors of the writer's creative workshop to readers and unveil its mechanisms, tricks, and devices?
In these pages, already a great success, the author explains the hidden laws that produce the naturalness of the narrative, the techniques for constructing convincing dialogues, and the effects that can be achieved by choosing to narrate in the first or third person, etc.
In addition to the already published chapters on how to write novels, short stories, and film scripts… (cit. ibs.it)
Vincenzo Cerami: Fantasmi
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Vincenzo Cerami: Fantasmi
5 oct 17
“It’s a book that encourages you to leaf through the pages backward rather than forward. You don’t quickly flip through the pages to find out how it ends, but revisit those you’ve just read, because there isn’t just one story but many stories… Only at the end do you discover that there is one single story, with the rhythms of a sonata in four movements.”

- Umberto Eco -
Vladimir Nabokov: La difesa di Lužin
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Vladimir Nabokov: La difesa di Lužin
22 sep 17
The Defense of Lužin, Nabokov's first masterpiece, is the story of an irreconcilable conflict between genius and normality, will and predestination, reasonable daily existence and the laws of Fate, jealous of the prerogatives that belong to it. And it is also – as the title suggests, alluding to an imaginary move invented by the protagonist – a story about chess. (from Adelphi)
Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin
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Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin
22 sep 17
In the nearly empty carriage of a train speeding through the countryside sits a man with a large bald head, strong in torso but with a pair of thin little legs on which sag the loose socks of scarlet wool with lilac diamonds. The solitary passenger is none other than Professor Timofej Pavlovic Pnin, an exile in the United States and the holder of a Russian language course at Waindell University, on his way to give a lecture at the women's club in another locality of the vast American province. (from Adelphi)
Vladimir Nabokov: Re, donna, fante
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Vladimir Nabokov: Re, donna, fante
22 sep 17
Nabokov dissects and summarizes three figures and three levels of consciousness, three stages of self-perception and perception of others: from deep and numbing discomfort to petty vulgarity with its primitive lexicon, up to a more nuanced intertwining of expectations and disappointments. (from Adelphi)
Vladimir Nabokov: Intransigenze
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Vladimir Nabokov: Intransigenze
22 sep 17
Nabokov abhorred interviews. Yet, especially when he became a celebrity, he had to endure a few. But the work of those unfortunate journalists turned into a mere pretext for a spectacular reinvention, with which he aimed above all to erase "any trace of spontaneity, any semblance of actual conversation." (from Adelphi)
Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
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Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
22 sep 17
...such is the habit of the foolish rule that what makes noise is inevitably devoid of lasting literary quality, so great was the ignorance of Nabokov's work at the time that only a few understood what is today an obvious truth before everyone's eyes: Lolita is not only a wonderful novel, but one of the great texts of passion that traverse our history... (cit. Adelphi)
Vladimir Nabokov: Il dono
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Vladimir Nabokov: Il dono
22 sep 17
... it is the novel of Russian literature, a narrative score where, through allusions, distortions, hybridizations, every sort of verse, stylistic features, echoes of those authors who contributed to compose the varied substance of Nabokov's style resound; and it is also the story of a search for a father... (cit. Adelphi)
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