Download or read book Chilly Scenes of Winter written by Ann Beattie and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a love-smitten Charles; his friend Sam, the Phi Beta Kappa and former coat salesman; and Charles' mother, who spends a lot of time in the bathtub feeling depressed.

Download or read book The Conservatory of Santa Teresa written by Bilenchi, Romano and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first translation of Romano Bilenchi’s 1940 masterpiece to appear in English. This is surprising since The Conservatory of Santa Teresa is much more than an invaluable historical document of life in provincial Tuscany around the time of the First World War. It is truly one of the most important works of fiction published in Italy under Fascism. In telling of the pre-adolescent Sergio’s encounter with the larger world of sex, politics, and the violence and cruelty of adult life, Bilenchi succeeds in representing a universal paradigm, that of the clash of innocence with experience. But what makes Sergio’s trajectory unique is that he goes through it in the company of three extraordinary women who are at once femmes fatales and benevolent guides: his mother, his aunt, and his tutor, all almost unbearably beautiful, as least in Sergio’s eyes. These women, plus the dazzling landscape of the Sienese countryside as captured by Bilenchi, make Sergio’s journey an enviable even if sometimes painful and bewildering experience.

Download or read book Beyond the Suffering of Being Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett written by Roberta Cauchi-Santoro and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi’s and Samuel Beckett’s pessimism and nihilism. Such approaches stem from the quotation of Leopardi in Beckett’s monograph Proust, as part of a discussion about the removal of desire. Nonetheless, in contrast to ataraxia as a form of ablation of desire, the desire of and for the Other is here presented as central in the two authors’ oeuvres. Desire in Leopardi and Beckett is read as lying at the cusp between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Emmanuel Levinas, a desire that splits as much as it moulds the subject when called to address the Other (inspiring what Levinas terms ‘infinity’ as opposed to ‘totality,’ an infinity pitted against the nothingness crucial to pessimist and nihilist readings).

Download or read book On Modern Poetry written by Guido Mazzoni and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guido Mazzoni tells the story of poetry's revolution in the modern age. The chief transformation was the rise of the lyric as it is now conceived: a genre in which a first-person speaker talks about itself. Mazzoni argues that modern poetry embodies the age of the individual and has wrought profound changes in the expectations of readers.

Download or read book The Art of Reading Poetry written by Harold Bloom and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paperback original, Bloom's stand–alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language. A notable feature of Harold Bloom's poetry anthology The Best Poems English Language is his lengthy introductory essay, here reprinted as a separate book. For the first time Bloom gives his readers an elegant guide to reading poetry––a master critic's distillation of a lifetime of teaching and criticism. He tackles such subjects as poetic voice, the nature of metaphor and allusion, and the nature of poetic value itself. Bloom writes "the work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists of ourselves." This essay is an invaluable guide to poetry. This edition will also include a recommended reading list of poems.

Download or read book The Ocean and the Boy written by Giuseppe Conte and published by Small Press United. This book was released on 1997 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Imperia in 1945, Giuseppe Conte is one of the most important and powerful voices in Italian literature today. A talented and versatile writer, he has published numerous books of poetry, novels, criticism, essays, and plays. He has received major literary prizes (including the Premio Montale) and has translated into Italian the works of Shelley, D.H. Lawrence and Walt Whitman. He has traveled extensively, has visited the United States to present his poetry, and now lives in Imperia, Italy, and in Nice, France. The Ocean and the Boy, Conte's first full-length book of poetry, is written in an intensely personal style, fusing myth and everyday reality. In this dual-language edition, the first English translation of a complete poetry book by Conte, the editor-translator, Italian-born poet Laura Stortoni, has included a translator's note, biographical and bibliographical data, endnotes and an introduction by Italo Calvino.

Download or read book Man of Smoke written by Aldo Palazzeschi and published by Italica Pr. This book was released on 1911 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book L universo nel terzo millennio written by Margherita Hack and published by Bur. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Potremo mai rispondere agli interrogativi che ci siamo posti sul futuro e sull'origine dell'universo? Sul perché l'universo è quello che è, e perché le leggi fisiche sono quelle che faticosamente andiamo scoprendo attraverso i secoli?" Fin dagli albori della civiltà, il genere umano si è sempre interrogato sulle stelle, il cielo e la loro natura. E negli ultimi secoli, da quando Galileo rivoluzionò l'astronomia con le sue concezioni scientifiche basate sull'osservazione e l'esperimento, i progressi nello studio del cosmo si sono fatti sempre più rapidi e profondi. Fino a oggi, in cui grazie agli incredibili sviluppi della tecnologia si cerca di ricostruire quello che era alle origini l'universo e di comprendere in che direzione evolverà. Figura simbolo dell'astrofisica italiana e divulgatrice amatissima, Margherita Hack accompagna il lettore in un viaggio e un'avventura nello spazio e nel tempo: dalle stelle a noi vicine alle più lontane galassie, dall'uniformità dell'universo primordiale alla struttura complessa di oggi, dalle domande sulla possibilità di mondi extraterrestri all'esplorazione dei buchi neri e del "vuoto intergalattico". Un racconto ricco di passione scientifica e intellettuale, che partendo dal cosmo arriva a porre gli interrogativi fondamentali per l'uomo, perché "i tentativi di spiegare l'universo danno avvio a discussioni e domande che escono dal ristretto ambito della fisica per toccare problemi filosofici e religiosi".