Dumas restored
2 December 2014
The count of montecristo di Dumas corrected and restored in a new translation of Einaudi.
The count of montecristo di Dumas corrected and restored in a new translation of Einaudi.
A perfect novel of anguish brought to the big screen by Clouzot but which Alfred Hitchcock would have liked to have been able to shoot too.
The now 64-year-old Salvo Montalbano is no longer what he used to be. The shots are starting to fail and - let's say - he is getting quite dumb. On the other hand, it has been filling novels and short stories since 1994 and joining Camilleri's historical and political literature. And then, let's face it, when the
A bad writer is someone who expresses himself taking into account an inner context that the reader cannot know. In this way the mediocre author is led to say everything he likes. The great rule, on the other hand, lies in forgetting oneself in part, in favor of a communicable expression. This cannot
Attention to detail, attention to detail, linguistic precision, philology as a whole, far from being legacies of pedantry, are rather the most authentic corollaries of lightness. An ambitious goal, this noun (which is, rather, a lifestyle): it requires commitment and work, perseverance and determination. On the contrary, superficiality, conformity, sloppiness
He was still choosing the color of the leather jacket when, in the throes of a hysterical attack, he decided that it was not really possible that these guys below were doing all this continuous noise! And then, looking in the mirror, how can Christ wear pants like this !? The roars could be heard outside
Traveling by bus is like embarking on a path of thought. I observe the city and look for its constant elements, its layers, its structures. The city is made as if by superimposing glossy sheets on an overhead projector. The drawings of the subsequent sheets hide more or less large parts of those
I find that there are obvious parallels between cultures based on orality and the society that is being created through the widespread and massive use of web 2.0. In the world of orality, the library is memory. Any past event that deserves to be remembered is accessible only through the memory of
When it is time to march, many do not know that the enemy is marching at their head. The voice that commands them is the voice of their enemy. And whoever speaks of the enemy is himself the enemy. Bertold Brecht, On the wall, in Brecht, Poesie, edited by L. Forte, Einaudi, Turin, 2005.
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