Download or read book Dalla prigionia nello Spielberg al ritorno alla vita written by Cristina Contilli and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-12 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basato sulle lettere di S. Pellico, l'autrice ci regala un ritratto inedito di questo personaggio che è conosciuto, quasi sempre, solo per le poche notizie scolastiche legate alla sua figura. Un'attenta ricostruzione dei fatti, un linguaggio perfettamente consono all'epoca in cui tutto si svolge e lo stile narrativo proprio della Contilli, lineare e semplice, danno vita ad una biografia romanzata che, probabilmente, di romanzato ha davvero poco, vista la grande cura impiegata nella ricerca e nella verifica delle fonti storiche da parte dell'autrice stessa. Il libro parla anche di altri personaggi detenuti nelle medesime prigioni, come A. Andriane, F. Confalonieri e P. Maroncelli, allargando la narrazione a coloro che ne condivisero la sorte, alle donne che soffrirono con loro e ne attesero la liberazione, ma è soprattutto su Pellico che il romanzo è incentrato. (DALLA RECENSIONE DI MARIA GUIDI) EDIZIONE CON LE ILLUSTRAZIONI IN BIANCO E NERO

Download or read book Dalla prigionia nello Spielberg al ritorno alla vita Una biografia romanzata di Silvio Pellico e degli altri patrioti del Risorgimento detenuti nel carcere dello Spielberg written by Cristina Contilli and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piccolo importante commovente libro, inatteso anche, certamente buono per tutti quanti, come il sottoscritto, guardano alla storia non come una sorta di passerella monumentale, dove spiccano eroi e condottieri e grandi letterati, ma come una trama di vita vissuta, di vita vera, animata da uomini e donne che sono anche corpi, desideri, sentimenti, passioni, aneliti, paure... E allora ecco qui, Silvio Pellico e gli altri patrioti, la Milano e la Torino dell'Ottocento che noi abbiamo inscatolato e messo via sotto la dizione "Risorgimento", eccoli nelle loro esistenze reali, quotidiane, non meno importanti delle loro tracce che si sono sedimentate sui libri di storia... Cristina Contilli qui riesce in un difficile equilibrio, che peraltro credo che sia l'unico che possa restituirci il bisogno del nostro passato come cosa viva. Ci offre nelle stesse pagine la competenza di chi ha studiato a fondo la nostra storia per restituircelo con la forza della narrazione da romanzo.(DALLA RECENSIONE DI PAOLO CIAMPI)

Download or read book Dalla prigionia nello Spielberg al ritorno alla vita Nuova Edizione written by Cristina Contilli and published by . This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La rievocazione che Cristina Contilli ci presenta in questo romanzo breve, della triste vita nel carcere dello Spielberg dei patrioti italiani e di quella successiva alla loro liberazione, con nell’animo e nel corpo i segni della feroce prigionia, è documentata dalle lettere scritte da Silvio Pellico, riportate, in alcuni loro passaggi, all’inizio dei capitoli, insieme ai versi più significativi, dello stesso autore, tratti dalle sue opere. L’autrice, più che usare il linguaggio passionale, che pure utilizza, seppure in maniera molto limitata, e a cui ci ha abituato nei suoi romanzi, ci parla attraverso un lessico fatto di tenerezza, di comprensione reciproca, di affettuosa vicinanza, di cure, di preoccupazioni per la salute, ma anche per i compagni patrioti, travolti da alterne vicende ed anche di racconti duri, da parte di Silvio a Cristina, sulle vessazioni subite durante la prigionia, di cui lei ignorava la vera portata.(Dall'introd. di Mariateresa Biasion Martinelli)

Download or read book Past Im Perfect Continuous written by Alice Balestrino and published by Sapienza Università Editrice. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past (Im)perfect Continuous. Trans-Cultural Articulations of the Postmemory of WWII presents an international and interdisciplinary approach to the comprehension of the postmemory of WWII, accounting for a number of different intellectual trajectories that investigate WWII and the Holocaust as paradigms for other traumas within a global and multidirectional context. Indeed, by exceeding the geographical boundaries of nations and states and overcoming contextual specificities, postmemory foregrounds continuous, active, connective, transcultural, and always imperfect representations of violence that engage with the alterity of other histories and other subjects. 75 years after the end of WWII, this volume is primarily concerned with the convergence between postmemory and underexamined aspects of the history and aftermath of WWII, as well as with several sociopolitical anxieties and representational preoccupations. Drawing from different disciplines, the critical and visual works gathered in this volume interrogate the referential power of postmemory, considering its transcultural interplay with various forms, media, frames of reference, conceptual registers, and narrative structures.

Download or read book The Double Bond written by Carole Angier and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the most important writer to emerge from the death camps, Primo Levi is known for "Survival in Auschwitz, The Reawakening, " and the classic "The Periodic Table." Angier has spent nearly ten years writing this meticulously researched, vivid, and moving biography.

Download or read book The Voice of Memory written by Primo Levi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of more than twenty-five years, Primo Levi gave more than two hundred newspaper, journal, radio and television interviews speaking with such varied authors as Philip Roth and Germaine Greer. Marco Belpoliti and Robert Gordon have selected and translated thirty-six of the most important of these interviews for The Voice of Memory.

Download or read book Magic Prague written by Angelo Maria Ripellino and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A superb, haunting, clotted mad masterpiece.'- John Banville, The Observer This unique cultural history attempts to go beyond the tourist clich of Prague as the 'golden city' to bring out all the mystery, ambiguity, gloom, lethargy and hidden fascination of the city on the Vltava. Ripellino slips into the style of melodrama and ghost stories, the anecdotes of the enchanted traveller and the outlandish bad taste of beer-teller tales to bring out the sorcery of the Bohemian capital in a mixture of fact and fiction.

Download or read book Book Was There written by Andrew Piper and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book and a connoisseur of print, but as a card-carrying member of the first digital generation—and the father of two digital natives—he understands that we live in electronic times. Book Was There is Piper’s surprising and always entertaining essay on reading in an e-reader world. Much ink has been spilled lamenting or championing the decline of printed books, but Piper shows that the rich history of reading itself offers unexpected clues to what lies in store for books, print or digital. From medieval manuscript books to today’s playable media and interactive urban fictions, Piper explores the manifold ways that physical media have shaped how we read, while also observing his own children as they face the struggles and triumphs of learning to read. In doing so, he uncovers the intimate connections we develop with our reading materials—how we hold them, look at them, share them, play with them, and even where we read them—and shows how reading is interwoven with our experiences in life. Piper reveals that reading’s many identities, past and present, on page and on screen, are the key to helping us understand the kind of reading we care about and how new technologies will—and will not—change old habits. Contending that our experience of reading belies naive generalizations about the future of books, Book Was There is an elegantly argued and thoroughly up-to-date tribute to the endurance of books in our ever-evolving digital world.

Download or read book The Search for Roots written by Primo Levi and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the last complete book published during Levi's lifetime to be translated into English and offers one final look into the mind of one of the most compelling and tragic witnesses of the twentieth century. In THE SEARCH FOR ROOTS, Levi has selected the thirty pieces of prose and poetry most important to him. In doing so, he considers how many of our 'roots' come from the books we've read, and reveals a great deal about both his own tastes and his intellectual preoccupations. Levi's many fans will be fascinated by the pieces he has chosen - with authors selected ranging from Homer, Swift and Melville to Darwin, Marco Polo and a scientist on Black Holes.

Download or read book Rough Animals written by Rae DelBianco and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 25 Best Thriller Books of the Summer—New York Post Best New Books Coming Out Summer 2018 —Southern Living 46 Great Books to Read This Summer—Nylon Dazzling Debuts"—WYPR, "The Weekly Reader" Summer Thrillers That Will Have You at the Edge of Your Chaise Lounge—Refinery29 8 New Books You Should Read This June—vulture.com What We Read, Watched, and Listened to in May—Outside “Furious and electric . . . a fever dream."—Publishers Weekly, *Starred Review!* Breaking Bad meets No Country for Old Men... Ever since their father's untimely death five years before, Wyatt Smith and his inseparably close twin sister, Lucy, have scraped by alone on their family's isolated ranch in Box Elder County, Utah. That is until one morning when, just after spotting one of their steers lying dead in the field, Wyatt is hit in the arm by a hail of gunfire that takes four more cattle with it. The shooter: a fever-eyed, fearsome girl-child with a TEC-9 in her left hand and a worn shotgun in her right. They hold the girl captive, but she breaks loose overnight and heads south into the desert. With the dawning realization that the loss of cattle will mean the certain loss of the ranch, Wyatt feels he has no choice but to go after her and somehow find restitution for what's been lost. Wyatt's decision sets him on an epic twelve-day odyssey through a nightmarish underworld he only half understands; a world that pitches him not only against the primordial ways of men and the beautiful yet brutally unforgiving landscape, but also against himself. As he winds his way down from the mountains of Box Elder to the mesas of Monument Valley and back, Wyatt is forced to look for the first time at who he is and what he’s capable of, and how those hard truths set him irrevocably apart from the one person he’s ever really known and loved. Steeped in a mythic, wildly alive language of its own, and gripping from the first gunshot to the last, Rough Animals is a tour de force from a powerful new voice.

Download or read book Dreams of Dreams and the Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa written by Antonio Tabucchi and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa finds the poet on his deathbed, where he is visited by his heteronyms, the poets he invented, whose poetry and voices invented him. Antonio Tabucchi, scholar and Italian translator of Pessoa's work, here pronounces a farewell to a man who was several of the greatest writers of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Dalla prigionia nello Spielberg al ritorno alla vita written by Cristina Contilli and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mirror Maker written by Primo Levi and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mirror Maker is a collection of short stories and essays written by Primo Levi. One of his previous novels, The Truce, is soon to become a major film.

Download or read book With Borges written by Alberto Manguel and published by Telegram Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Buenos Aires, 1964, a blind writer approaches a sixteen-year-old bookstore clerk asking if he would be interested in a part-time job reading aloud." "The writer was Jorge Luis Borges, one of the world's finest literary minds; the boy was Alberto Manguel, who was later to become an internationally acclaimed author and bibliophile." "The young Manguel spent several years reading aloud and transcribing for the enigmatic Borges. Here he recalls this time with integrity and warmth, offering us an intimate and moving portrait of one of the great literary luminaries."--BOOK JACKET.

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Download or read book A Reading Diary written by Alberto Manguel and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While traveling, Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect the social chaos of the world he was living in. He decided to keep a diary of these moments, reading a book a month and recording his observations, which provides an enthralling adventure in literature and life.

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