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Nonostante tutto
Nonostante tutto è una storia di speranza, di duro lavoro, di affetti e di vita. La tenacia della protagonista, e autrice, si mostra nelle molteplici vicissitudini, episodi che si snodano tra le luminose coste della Calabria e la vivace città di Torino, durante un breve periodo trascorso a Piacenza e nella bella, ma non sempre ospitale, cittadina di Trebisacce. Dopo un primo, tumultuoso matrimonio, accompagnato dall’alternarsi di eventi dolorosi e gioiosi, a seguito di tante fatiche fisiche e morali, Letizia sente di potersi commuovere solo pregando e rivolgendosi alla fede, ma teme di aver perduto per sempre la capacità di lasciarsi andare completamente alla felicità e di emozionarsi....
The Journey into the Unknown
In this autobiographical novel, Orietta Bosch retraces the salient stages of a life, equally marked by good and evil; she was just a teenager when, driven by curiosity, she entered into the back of the shop where she worked and saw a big black book and two dark eyes staring at her. The young Orietta doesn’t know it yet but that evil look will remain on her for years, hindering and depriving her of the dearest loved ones, until she lost her only son. It seems that the evil wants to drag her into the abyss of the hell, but the Light does not abandon her; she feels always close the presence of her beloved Simon who, like a guardian angel, accompanies her, comforts her, convinces her not to gi...
L’amore è tutto
Il titolo di questo volumetto, “L’amore è tutto”, mi è stato suggerito dalla lettura di una frase della romanziera inglese Emily Dickinson, che recita: “Non so tutto dell’amore, ma so che l’amore è tutto”. Questa bella affermazione non mi ha ispirato soltanto il titolo, ma anche il contenuto del libro: una raccolta di alcune poesie di Saffo e di altri illustri poeti, che hanno esaltato il sentimento di amore negli scorsi secoli. Affrontare un tema così difficile è molto presuntuoso. Due, infatti, dovrebbero essere le priorità nella vita: la Res publica, cioè la detestata politica, la Comunità; e la Res privata, cioè i sentimenti. La cucina, il cibo, il vino, lo sport, ...
Blind to see the darkness
What is eros? Eros, a Greek term meaning “Love”, physical love but also the physical and carnal desire to possess the other, but how does all this come about? In Hesiod’s mythological poem, The Theogony, in which the history and genealogy of the Greek Gods are told, we read “So it was Chaos first, and then Gaia with a large chest, a safe home for everyone forever the immortals who hold the peaks of the snowy Olympus, and foggy Tartarus in the recesses of the earth from the wide roads, and then Eros, the most beautiful of the immortal gods, that breaks the limbs, and of all gods and all men tame the heart and wise counsel in the chest. From Chaos were born Erebo and black Nyx. From Ny...
In the American Grain
We are pleased to present to our European readers “In The American Grain”. This anthology is a fine selection of the best contemporary American poets, who have won the most important awards of the American literary critics in recent years. Among the poems collected in this anthology, you will have the chance to read the verses of illustrious authors such as Forrest Gander, Rae Armantrout and Vijay Sheshadri, winners of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. Present as well, several other authors recognised by the critics of the Walt Witman Award, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, Griffin Poetry Prize and the Young People’s Poet Laureate. It is an important opportunity for us to bring the best of American poetry to European readers, something not too well known to the wide readership in Europe. We therefore invite our readers to surprise themselves and discover new verses, through the purest example of an art that is deeply alive in the USA, flowing impetuously through American veins.
The East Wind
The year is 1942, Robert Mann, a brilliant young American physicist of German birth, joins Allied Intelligence. When the assassination of a top Nazi official presents OSS and MI-6 with a rare chance to penetrate the Third Reich, Robert volunteers. His cover survives one nerve-racking encounter after another as he infiltrates Hitler’s atom bomb program. Then comes the ultimate test: entry into the home of Effi Zell—wife of Christoph Zell—the man Robert is impersonating. Tension builds toward a crescendo, then collapses as Christoph and Effi fall in love. Their torrid affair morphs into a man-woman resistance team. Again, the tension builds… Robert and Effi perfect the art of deception...
Testimonies of the history of the earth in central Italy
This text of Alfredo Brofferio –that was presented at a conference during EXPO-2015 in Milan– retraces some fundamental stages of the history and evolution of the territory –and its people– in Central Italy, with particular attention paid to all those elements (cultural, social, gastronomic, artistic) which have contributed to make it a part of the Italian Peninsula among the most interesting to visit. Alfredo Brofferio has worked for 35 years in IBM and has lived in 7 different cities of Europe for work reasons. Once retired, he has gone back to live in Gubbio, native town of his mother.
2017
Futurism Studies in its canonical form has followed in the steps of Marinetti's concept of Futurisme mondial, according to which Futurism had its centre in Italy and a large number of satellites around Europe and the rest of the globe. Consequently, authors of textbook histories of Futurism focus their attention on Italy, add a chapter or two on Russia and dedicate next to no attention to developments in other parts of the world. Futurism Studies tends to sees in Marinetti's movement the font and mother of all subsequent avant-gardes and deprecates the non-European variants as mere 'derivatives'. Vol. 7 of the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies will focus on one of these regions outs...
Extracts From: The Pitch Of Dreams
Seeing life through the eyes of a child is always touching. It brings us back in time, making us caress unforgotten memories and taste special experiences. It is a sweet start that moves us, giving us the perception of what growing up right really means. Far from exasperations, the playful aspect of the game must be the cornerstone of a gradual and gratifying process, characterised by morality and good manners. This book touches hearts with pleasing lightness, because it talks about children and sport, specifically football; two extraordinary things that, together, can light up the darkest sky, giving hope and smiles.” From the Foreword by Giovanni Malagò
Images of Europe
This book deals with the fundamental semantics of images of Europe, which consist of valences, mirror beliefs and affectivities. This is why it relaunches the importance of the European discourse in its symbolic dimension. As such, it explores the many images of Europe, or rather the many images through which European discourse is actually constituted in daily life, in search of their enunciative responsibility in today’s world for determining the current “State of the Union”. The identity of the European continent is based on a millenary tension between universalism and particularism: images of Europe have in fact been alternately inspired, over the centuries, by a model of homogeneit...
