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The Legacy of Primo Leviby Stansilao G. Pugliese
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 81.00This collection represents some of the latest research on Primo Levi, the famous Auschwitz survivor Italian author. There are four essays ib Levi's complex and fertile theory of the 'Gray Zone' and further essays on the myriad aspects of this thought. This is an excellent collection with new perspectives on Levi's life and work. more...
The Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereniby Vittorio Sereni; Marcus Perryman; Peter Robinson
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 30.00The Beach (La Spiaggia) They’ve all gone away — the voice was blathering down the receiver Then, knowingly: — They’ll not return —. But today on this stretch of beach never visited before those sunlight patches . . . Signals of theirs, who hadn't left at all? And when you turn they’re quiet, as if nothing. What’s being wasted from day to day is not the dead, but it’s those patches of the nonexistent, lime or ashes ready to become light and movement. ... more...
New Essays on Umberto Ecoby Peter Bondanella
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 82.00An introduction to Eco's contributions to a wide range of academic disciplines, as well as to his literary works. more...
Twice Bornby Margaret Mazzantini; Ann Gagliardi
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 18.99This international bestseller is a sweeping portrait of motherhood, loss, and redemption in war-torn Sarajevo. Filled with memories of the four-year siege of Sarajevo, Gemma reluctantly boards a flight from her native Rome to that war-scarred city with her sixteen-year-old son, Pietro. She hopes to teach her son about the city of his birth and about Diego, the father he never knew. Once there Gemma is caught between the present and the past, reliving her love affair with Diego, their determination to start a family, and their deep connection to Sarajevo even as the threat of war loomed. In this haunting and sophisticated novel, Mazzantini masterfully probes the startling emotional territory of what makes a family-particularly what... more...
Primo Levi's Universeby Sam Magavern; Jonathan Rosen; Risa Sodi
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 11.99Primo Levi is best known as a memoirist of Auschwitz, but he was also a scientist, fiction writer, and poet: in short, a Renaissance man. Primo Levi’s Universe offers a multi-faceted portrait of the heroic man who turned the concentration camp experience into beautiful yet terrifying literature. Over time, Levi developed an original world-view which he conveyed in his writing. Through careful readings of Levi’s works, Sam Magavern finally does justice to his calm rationality, dark poetry, essential beliefs and wit. Levi's art and life are inextricably intertwined, and this book presents them together, allowing each to shed light on the other. more...
Trilogy of Resistanceby Antonio Negri; Timothy S. Murphy; Barbara Nicolier
University of Minnesota Press 2011; US$ 75.00With Trilogy of Resistance, the political philosopher Antonio Negri extends his intervention in contemporary politics and culture into a new medium: drama. The three plays collected for the first time in this volume dramatize the central concepts of the innovative and influential thought he has articulated in his best-selling books Empire and Multitude, coauthored with Michael Hardt. In the tradition of Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Mnller, NegriÆs political dramas are designed to provoke debate around the fundamental questions they raise about resistance, violence, and tyranny. In Swarm, the protagonist searches for an effective mode of activism; with the help of a Greek-style chorus, she tries on different roles, from the suicide bomber... more...
The Flower of Youthby Mary di Michele
ECW Press 2011; US$ 12.95Written as a kind of historical narrative in verse, the poems in this collection depict the coming of age and sexual awareness of the great Italian writer and film director, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The time of this story is World War II; the place is German-occupied northern Italy. Unlike his younger brother, Guido, who took up arms to fight in the resistance, Pasolini chose to help his mother set up a school for the boys too young to fight or be conscripted. The situation ignited an internal war for the young Pasolini that nearly eclipsed the historical moment: a battle within between his desire for boys and his Catholic faith and culture. In addition to the poems that juxtapose Pasolini’s struggle against the backdrop of political... more...
Body of Stateby Marco Baliani; Nicoletta Marini-Maio; Ellen Nerenberg; Thomas Simpson
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2011; US$ 64.99Body of State offers a comprehensive critical perspective on the Moro Affair and on Marco Baliani’s work. With contributions from scholars, theater practitioners, teachers, and students, it constitutes a unique resource for terrorism studies, Italian Studies, Theater Studies, History, Political Science, and other discipline that train on the intersection of art and politics. The relevance of the topic raise the interest of the general audience as well. more...
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