Enrico Palandri

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La via del ritorno

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Boccalone

Scritto come un romanzo filosofico, questo saggio ci trascina verso i grandi orizzonti che Leopardi ha aperto intorno a sé e per tutti noi. Duecento anni dopo la sua stesura, L’infinito amplia ancora lo sguardo. Nell’agile ricognizione di alcuni ambiti biografici e filosofici in cui il ventunenne Leopardi concepisce questi versi, questo libro fa emergere domande attualissime: cosa sia la politica, l’essere stranieri, il nostro senso di noi stessi, come ci condizionino i conflitti umani privati e pubblici, le profonde trasformazioni che discendono da un’amicizia.

Verso l'infinito

Doug Thompson

Paris, June 1998, the day of the World Cup semi-final between France and Italy. The city is smouldering with hatred. The fear in the air is palpable. Skinheads and Neo-Nazis are on the rampage. The backdrop against which Giacomo Flores, a reporter for a prominent Italian daily paper, is only moments away from meeting his grown-up, pregnant daughter, Francesca, and his wayward son, Gianni, and a little later, Louis his divorced wife’s third child, and most important of all for him, Pauline herself, though not until the evening, which is still hours away.But these arrangements begin to unravel before any meeting can take place. There is a stabbing. Giacomo witnesses it and becomes involved with the police. Gianni sees his father being driven off with them. Francesca and Gianni do meet but, as violence erupts all around them, he hustles her away into a shop. He leaves her there, ostensibly to go and look for young Louis, but is drawn by the presumed revolutionary potential of the developing situation. He joins a small group of Kurds who are fleeing from both the skinheads and the police. For several hours, each member of the family lives out their individual responses to the turmoil all around them, yet in their thoughts they keep coming back to what should have been happening, and to the family’s broken history, and to whether or not any kind of reconciliation can be brought about, even now, after their thirteen-years’ estrangement.

The Other Evening

Gianfranco Bettin

Elisabetta Baldisserotto

Annalisa Bruni

Michele Catozzi

Cristiano Dorigo

Roberto Ferrucci

Ginevra Lamberti

Samantha Lenarda

Marilia Mazzeo

An inspector rages against the announcement that police HQ is to relocate – the way so many of the city’s residents already have – to the mainland... An aspiring author struggles with the inexorable creep of rentalisation that has forced him to share his apartment, and life, with ‘global pilgrims’... An ageing painter rails against the liberties taken by tourists, but finds his anger undermined by his own childhood memories of the place... The Venice presented in these stories is a far cry from the ‘impossibly beautiful’, frozen-in-time city so familiar to the thousands who flock there every year – a city about which, Henry James once wrote, ‘there is nothing new to be said.’ Instead, they represent the other Venice, the one tourists rarely see: the real, everyday city that Venetians have to live and work in. Rather than a city in stasis, we see it at a crossroads, fighting to regain its radical, working-class soul, regretting the policies that have seen it turn slowly into a theme park, and taking the pandemic as an opportunity to rethink what kind of city it wants to be.

A City in Short Fiction

The Book of Venice

“L’azione del libro si situa a ridosso del marzo del 1977, dei mesi della rivolta creativa, dei carri armati inviati a presidiare la cittadella universitaria. Ma Boccalone è soprattutto una storia d’amore, prima ancora che di crisi politica, la storia di come un innamoramento possa far scoppiare i propri equilibri, creare intensità nuove. È un libro che testimonia di una crescita, del suo autore, innanzitutto, del suo personaggio, del giro di amici. Gli scatti di questo processo di crescita sono descritti con estrema freschezza, scrupolosamente annotati senza alcuna compiacenza, senza narcisismo.” Tratto da Un weekend postmoderno di Pier Vittorio Tondelli

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