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BOMPIANI
HIGHLIGHTS Arianna Farinelli American Gothic 8
MUNIZIONI
Daphne Caruana Galizia Speak the Truth Even if Your Voice Shakes 9
FICTION
NOIRS Fausto Vitaliano The Half-Moon Bay 12
Cristiano Governa The Clarissine Strategy 13
Silvana La Spina Sister Death 14
FICTION Marta Barone Sunken City 16
Zoya Barontini Chronicles from the Dust 17
Paola Capriolo The Magnificent Eulalia and the The Helmsman 18
Enzo Fileno Carabba The Imagined Lives of Vasari 19
Giulia Contini The Canary Room 20
Paolo Di Stefano Us 21
Fulvio Ervas The Little Book of Prodigious Insects 22
Mario Fortunato South 23
Stefano Jacini The Lady of Rue de Vaugirard 24
Marina Jarre Distant Fathers 25
Melissa Magnani Teodoro 26
Lia Piano Planimetry of a Happy Family 27
Aurelio Picca The Greatest Criminal in Rome 28
Alcide Pierantozzi The Inconvenience of Being Loved 29
Alessandro Raveggi Big Karma. Carlo Coccioli’s Lives 30
Igiaba Scego The Colour Line 31
Francesca Scotti Vital Capacity 32
Antonio Scurati M- Son of the Century 33
Alice Zanotti Every Missed Appointment 34
35
Athos Zontini Beautiful Indifference
MODERN Corrado Alvaro Man in the Maze 38
CLASSICS
Man is Strong 39
Alberto Moravia The Time of Indifference 40
The Leopard Woman 41
Silvio D’Arzo The Others’ House and Other Stories 42
Tonino Guerra Stories from The Year One Thousand 43
Luigi Malerba
P O E T RY Carmelo Bene To You, Melancholy 44
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NON FICTION CHILDREN & YA
PHILOSOPHY Annalisa Ambrosio Plato. How Pain Changes the World 46 Mario Bellini Design Explained to Children 64
Becoming Don Juan Chiara Carminati Out of Focus 65
L I T E R AT U R E Marino Niola 47
New Lexicon of Sentiments Nicola Cinquetti The Giro of 1944 66
Giampiero Mughini 48
Matteo Corradini If the Night Has a Heart 67
REFLECTING Guido Barbujani A Beginners’ Primer of Genetics 49 Carlo Collodi Pinocchio 68
ON OUR TIME & Lorenzo Mattotti
Massimiano Bucchi Me & IT 50
Loredana Lipperini No Country for Elderly Women 51 Paolo Di Paolo The Flying Cow 70
Valentina Pisanty The Guardians of Memory 52 Daddy Gugol 71
Silvia Zanella The Future of Work is Female 53 Luca Doninelli The Detective Wickson Alieni 72
Umberto Eco Three Tales 73
ETHICS Carlo Maria Martini Brothers and Sisters 54 Eugenio Carmi
Alberto Moravia Prehistory Stories 74
AMLETICA Irene Soave Etiquette for Girls of Marriageable Age 55 Wu Ming 4 The Little Kingdom 75
LEGGERA
John Steinbeck-Shout Letter To Thom About Love 76
SEMIOTICS Stefano Bartezzaghi Banality. Commonplaces, Social Networks, 56 Nadia Terranova Homer Was Here 77
Semiotics
Alessandra Valtieri The Silk Princesses 78
Cristina Demaria Gender Theories. Feminisms and Semiotics 57 Silvia Vecchini Before Nightfall 79
with Aura Tiralongo
I L L U S T R AT E D
TITLES
Giancarlo Ascari Bridges, Not Walls 60
Pia Valentinis
Claudio Magris Story of Gali Gali 61
Giuseppe Scaraffia The Other Half of Paris 62
Munizioni Highlights
A new collection
edited by
Roberto Saviano
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HIGHLIGHTS
Arianna Farinelli HIGHLIGHTS
Daphne Caruana Galizia
American Gothic Speak the Truth
GOTICO AMERICANO Even if Your Voice Shakes
DI’ LA VERITÀ ANCHE SE LA TUA VOCE TREMA
A remarkable debut novel. An unflinching with the racist conservatism of the new The book Daphne Caruana Galizia her life for thirty years of investigative
portrait of America today as seen from president or the loneliness that haunts was working on at the time of her journalism in which she exposed the dark
within and from without. A collective and her amid the thousand bright lights of assassination. side of Malta, from political corruption,
intimately personal narrative of migration, Manhattan. She is pregnant by her young the drug trade and money laundering, to
dreams, resentments, of promises, of Afro-American student, Yunus, who, for “There are crooks everywhere you look the influence exerted by the Azerbaijani
betrayals, and love as – perhaps – our only two days now, hasn’t been answering her now, the situation is desperate.” These regime over local politics, Malta’s role
fighting chance. phone calls. Yunus, aged twenty, dedicates are the last words that Daphne Caruana in the Panama Papers scandal and the
a manuscript to her in which he tells his Galizia posted on Running Commentary, sale of Maltese citizenship – accounting
It’s the night of the presidential elections. own story: the tale of a young man of colour at 2.35 pm on 16th October 2017. for 2.5% of the island nation’s GDP.
Bruna, a professor of Political Science to whom life leaves few choices, and who Minutes later, the Peugeot 108 in which Daphne’s last words will remain a painful
in New York, has been on television, therefore makes the most radical possible Daphne was heading away from Dar warning amid the flowers at the site of
commenting on the results. But back at one – one that takes him to Syria, to fight Rihana exploded, and that sentence her makeshift, unofficial memorial.
the apartment she shares with her husband in a war which represents the failure of unwittingly became her final message to
Tom and their children, the wave of nausea centuries of human progress. readers of the blog. Daphne paid with
that overwhelms her has nothing to do
ARIANNA FARINELLI DAPHNE CARUANA GALIZIA
was born in Rome in 1975. She has been living in the a Maltese journalist and blogger, wrote for “Sunday
United States since 2001. In 2009 she was granted a PhD Times of Malta”, for “Malta Independent” and for the
in Political Science and since 2010 she has been a lecturer blog “Running Commentary”, opened in 2008. She was
at Baruch College, City University of New York. This is her murdered in an attack on October 16th, 2017.
first novel.
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FOREWORD BY ROBERTO SAVIANO
INTRODUCTION BY PAUL CARUANA GALIZIA
INTRODUCTIONS TO SECTIONS OF THE BOOK BY
ANDREW, MATTHEW AND PAUL CARUANA GALIZIA.
Daphne Caruana Galizia had the courage
and resilience to write despite the threats she
faced. [...] To secure [justice] it is essential that
there is a public inquiry to determine who
commissioned her killing – and, crucially,
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FIRST PRINT RUN: 25,000 COPIES Margaret Atwood
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NOIRS
MODERN CLASSICS
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FICTION
NOIR Fausto Vitaliano FICTION
NOIR Cristiano Governa
The Half-Moon Bay. The Clarissine Strategy
Gori Mistico’s Last Investigations LA STRATEGIA DELLA CLARISSA
LA MEZZALUNA DI SABBIA. LE ULTIME INDAGINI DI GORI MISTICÒ
An inspector torn between the his friend Nicola Strangio, an oncologist An unusal detective story set between but a very unusual one: she likes bikinis,
temptation to let evil triumph and the working in Milan. Gori has cancer, Bologna and the Riviera Romagnola and dirty talk and his brother’s cooking.
love for his beautiful land, Calabria. probably incurable. He travels to the played by a landlocked detective and his One day Paola finds out that someone
north of Italy for medication, but without nun sister. is praying St. Catherine to make some
Gregorio Misticò, known as Gori, is much conviction. people die. At the same time Carlo has
chief inspector of the Carabinieri on Gori Misticò doesn’t want to be bothered Carlo Vento is a police inspector in to find a 15 y.o. girl who disappeared. A
leave. Forty years old, he has a twenty- in this crucuial time of his life. But a Bologna: he loves old songs and good dead body is found in Romagna, by the
centimetre scar over his heart. After heinous murder followed by another very cooking, hates the sea and those fake TV sea, and Carlo must set off and try to
working with the Anti-Terrorism Unit elegant but no less suspicious death will detectives. His sister Paola, beautiful and solve the case. Paola will be his helper.
in Milan he returns to San Telesforo disrupt San Telesforo. The Vice Brigadier restless, has become a Clarissine nun,
Jonico, his hometown in the South, and Federico Costantino asks for his help.
goes on leave. No one knows why, except Gori refuses, but...
FAUSTO VITALIANO CRISTIANO GOVERNA
was born in Calabria, but has been living in Milan for most of Together with Serra he wrote the monologue (1970) lives and works in Bologna. He is a journalist, a writer
his life. He is a screenwriter for Disney Italia and has written Tutti i santi giorni (produced by Teatro dei Filodrammatici and writes for the cinema and the theatre. He published the
comic storylines for Sergio Bonelli, for Edizioni BD/Corriere in Milan). Among his books, the novels Era solo una novels Il catechista and the collection of short stories Le
della Sera, and the French publisher BD Music. He has also promessa, Lorenzo Segreto and La grammatica della corsa, lettere cattive and Baranowski.
worked in radio, TV and newspapers, has translated books, and the children’s non-fiction books La Repubblica a piccoli
and edited anthologies by Beppe Grillo and Michele Serra. passi and La musica a piccoli passi.
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A portrait of Calabria caught between Bologna in summer is the perfect place
degradation and splendour. A classic to disappear. And to kill.
investigation with a contemporary pace. A caustic noir full of poetry.
THE FIRST NOVEL OF AN INTRIGUING SERIES.
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NOIR Silvana La Spina
Sister Death
SORELLA MORTE
A detective nun, a female police officer and the aristocratic Pennisi di Floristella
a case in the shadows of a cloister family: Sister Benedetta’s cousin, Marilù,
a forty-year-old whose ex-husband lives
Catania. The convent of San Benedetto. in America and whose career to-date has
The nuns pray and teach. Their boarding- been somewhat erratic.
school pupils study, gossip and daydream, While Marilù does her best to
like all teenage girls. Until the convent’s disentangle a web of guilty silence with
gatekeeper, Sister Germana, enters the aid of a strange old man who talks
classroom B and finds Sister Barbara to a ghost, the young Sister Benedetta
stripped of her veil and lying in a pool is assisted by Maria, a simple soul and a
of blood. The Mother Superior instructs fine cook: a modern-day Sancho Panza in
Sister Benedetta to begin making holy orders who knows all too well that
enquiries into the murder. Meanwhile, when evil flourishes no one should be
the police officer investigating the crime terribly surprised.
just happens to be another member of
S I LV A N A L A S P I N A
is the author of a book of short stories entitled Scirocco (1997), Penelope (1998), La creata Antonia (winner of Premio
(1992, winner of Premio Chiara), and of several Vittorini), La continentale (2014) and L’uomo che veniva
novels, such as Morte a Palermo (1987, winner of da Messina (2015). She also the author of a series of three
Premio Mondello), L’ultimo treno da Catania (Bompiani novels featuring Inspector Maria Laura Gangemi: Uno sbirro
1992), Quando Marte è in Capricorno (Bompiani 1994), Un femmina (2007), La bambina pericolosa (2008) and Un
inganno dei sensi malizioso (1995), L’amante del paradiso cadavere eccellente (2011).
A black comedy powered by women
against the backdrop of a Sicily full of
mystery.
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Marta Barone FICTION
Zoya Barontini
Sunken City Chronicles from the Dust
C I TT À S OM M E RS A CR O N ACH E D ALLA PO LVER E
A semi-unknown father and his past to an armed band? And why did he never A ghost tale from the Italian past. the Arbegnoch resistance fighters,
be discovered. Terrorism in 1970s Turin. want to tell his daughter about those A mosaic novel about Fascist destruction, massacres and the use of
years? Lawyers, old far-left-winged colonialism’s heart of darkness. chemical weapons. This mosaic novel
A young woman, lonely and in love militants, archives and trial accounts recalls the horror of that war and of that
with literature, writes the chronicle of are voices that slowly make up the 1936: The Italian Army conquers the era, which the local inhabitants have
her fight with her father’s death: the portrait of a complex and contradictory capital city of the Ethiopian Empire, never forgotten, and takes us on a journey
two had shared a happy relationship man, a witness and a protagonist of a Addis Ababa. One of the blackest into a time and a place peopled with
during her happy childhood, a hard one complex and contradictory time. On the pages in Italian history begins: the war drums, dust and wind, Ethiopian
during her teenage years. But now that background, Turin, city of rage, pain occupation of the Abyssinian Territories, guerrillas, Italian soldiers and mysterious
the man is dead too many questions lay and hope, backdrop of violence that the reprisals, the defiant struggle of ghostly presences.
unanswered: who was the young doctor- generated just deception and ruins.
worker who always sided with the poor, The novel of a man, of his families, of
who always had someone to save, who his choices, retold with love and rage.
was sentenced to jail for taking part in
MARTA BARONE ZOYA BARONTINI
was born in Turin in 1987. She is a translator and wrote is the collective name that a group of Italian writers have Lubreto (1973), Gaia Manzini (1974), Michela Monferrini
three children’s books: Miriam delle cose perdute, I giardini chosen for themselves as the authors of this mosaic novel, (1986), Davide Morosinotto (1980), Davide Orecchio (1969),
degli altri and I 7 colori per 7 pittori. This is her first novel curated by Jadel Andreetto and illustrated by Alberto Guglielmo Pispisa (1971), Igiaba Scego (1974), Aldo Soliani
for adults. Merlin. The authors who have taken part in the project are (1971) and Nicoletta Vallorani (1959).
Massimo Gardella (1973), Lorenza Ghinelli (1981), Sirio
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FOR READERS WHO LOVED:
La straniera by Claudia Durastanti
Addio fantasmi by Nadia Terranova
What a fulminating debut!
Enrico Deaglio
Città sommersa is an indispensable book.
Giovanni Pacchiano
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Paola Capriolo FICTION
Enzo Fileno Carabba
The Magnificent Eulalia The Imagined Lives of Vasari
and The Helmsman VITE SO G N ATE D EL VASAR I
L A G RA NDE E UL A L I A E I L NOC C HI E RO
“There is a visionary faculty in Capriolo’s second is the story of a master sculptor Fra Filippo Lippi and his gift for being biographies he has found the seeds of
writing which is truly remarkable.” and his rebellious apprentice. The final forgiven. Verrocchio and the dangers of what develops into utterly fanciful (or
Maria Corti two tales, for which the setting is a studying too hard. Andrea del Castagno entirely plausible) episodes via which he
prison, are linked by the theme of music. and the bearing of grudges. Leon Battista reintroduces us to the greatest artists of
The Magnificent Eulalia is the collection At an undefined point in the past the Alberti and his nostalgia,,, the Renaissance from a compelling new
of four short stories with which the protagonist of Capriolo’s novel The angle. Each tale explores explores a state
author made her debut in 1988, winning Helmsman finds himself irresistibly Vasari’s The Lives of the Artists is an of mind or a state of grace. These are
the Premio Berto. The first of the stories attracted to a woman’s arm which is extraordinary document recounting the stories from the past, but the emotions
is the tale of Eulalia and her career, in adorned with a bracelet in the shape of stories of the founding figures of Western they portray are utterly contemporary.
the course of which she enters the world a serpent, and the sight of which draws art, but for many reasons it is also far From Leonardo da Vinci to Titian to
of touring theatre, becomes a famous him into a strange, dark series of events. from accessible for most contemporary Cimabue and Michelangelo, the history
singer and falls in love with the reflection readers. Inspired by Vasari’s Lives, of art becomes an endless source of
of a man she has seen in a mirror. The Carabba has embarked upon a piece of images and feelings that enrich lives.
narrative archaeology: in each of Vasari’s
PAOLA CAPRIOLO ENZO FILENO CARABBA
was born in Milan in 1962. Her novels include Il doppio Marie e il signor Mahler (2019). She is also an essayist, an is the author of novels short stories, radio plays, children’s Con un poco di zucchero and La zia subacquea e altri abissi
regno, Vissi d’amore, Una di loro, Qualcosa nella notte, Una author of children’s books, and a translator specializing in books and opera librettos. In 1990 he won the Premio famigliari, as well as the middle-grade fantasy saga Fuga da
luce nerissima, Il pianista muto, Caino, Mi ricordo and, with the German classics, including Goethe, Kafka, Kleist and Calvino with the novel Jakob Pesciolini (1992), the first Magopoli and Battaglia a Magopoli. He writes for “Il Corriere
Bompiani, Avventure di un gatto viaggiatore (2017) and Thomas Mann. volume of a fantasy trilogy which also includes La regola Fiorentino” and “Corriere della Sera”. His novels have been
del silenzio (1994) and La Foresta finale (1997). His translated into several languages.
subsequent books have included Pessimi Segnali, Attila,
An unforgettable gallery of exquisite little FEATURED ARTISTS: LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI GIOVANNI BELLINI
PAOLO UCCELLO ANTONELLO DA MESSINA
tales and stories vast in sweep. CIMABUE ANDREA DEL CASTAGNO LEONARDO
GIOTTO BEATO ANGELICO GIORGIONE
ARNOLFO DI CAMBIO BENOZZO GOZZOLI CORREGGIO
BUFFALMACCO PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA BRAMANTE
NICOLA E GIOVANI PISANI FILIPPO LIPPI RAFFAELLO
DUCCIO DI BUONINSEGNA BOTTICELLI ANDREA DEL SARTO
SIMONE MARTINI FILIPPINO LIPPI PONTORMO
PIETRO E AMBROGIO LORENZETTI POLLAIOLO ROSSO FIORENTINO
TADDEO GADDI VERROCCHIO BRONZINO
ANDREA PISANO PERUGINO TIZIANO
ANDREA ORCAGNA DOMENICO GHIRLANDAIO PLAUTILLA
BRUNELLESCHI PIERO DI COSIMO MICHELANGELO
DONATELLO BARTOLOMEO DELLA GATTA VASARI
MASACCIO LUCA SIGNORELLI. NUCCIO DA SORRETTOLE
GHIBERTI MANTEGNA PROPERZIA DE’ ROSSI
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Giulia Contini FICTION
Paolo Di Stefano
The Canary Room Us
L A S TA NZ A DE I C A NA RI NI NOI
An intense, painful and brilliant story unhappiness overcomes her. An The story of a family and the roots of starts a journey towards the future which
about what it takes to find ourselves encounter with Adele, a high school their unhappiness, the flashes of joy that has been denied to his brother Claudio.
through someone else. teacher who “inhabits space like morning leave spotted marks on their paths. It is also a journey the narrator conducts
light peering through blinds”, will change into the past, with the feeling of someone
A girl’s path in her efforts to accept everything. It will bring the real Giulia One day in April 1967. It’s raining, breathing behind him, a feeble voice
her own identity and to be accepted. back to life, with all the courage needed Italian singer Patty Pravo celebrates insinuating itself among his thoughts,
The story of a difficult love. Giulia was to keep a bond that her provincial world her nineteenth birthday, football player unwilling to be ignored. Di Stefano
the perfect child: intelligent and good considers wrong. Adele can but surrender Burgnich scores his second goal for Inter gathers and preserves traces of an entire
at everything. Her parents considered herself to Giulia’s invincible passion, at San Siro against Bologna, and the life universe of non-prominent though very
her strong and independent, so much and all her resistance fails in the face of a family changes forever. One of the relevant lives, gathering them around,
as to place her bedroom in the most of this immense love, which can only children playing in the living room is the finding the strength to evoke and say
remote part of the house: upstairs, be freed once high school is over for author of this story. In the next room, his goodbye for ever to his little brother, at
where everything creaked, and where Giulia. And then Giulia and Adele will younger brother is dying of leukaemia, a once loved, envied, tormented and lost.
the canaries were once kept. But have to confront the passing of time, the disease for which the following year there
when Giulia is in that room, a gloomy changes. will be a cure. On this day the narrator
GIULIA CONTINI PAOLO DI STEFANO
is the pen name of a writer from the Marche Region, Italy. was born in Avola, Sicily; he is a correspondent for “Corriere (with Massimo Siragusa, 2018). Under the nom de plume
This is her debut novel. della Sera”. He has published poems, short stories, Nino Motta he has published La parrucchiera di Pizzuta
investigation reports, and novels such as La catastròfa. (Bompiani, 2017). He has won several literary awards, such
Marcinelle 8 agosto 1956 (2011), Giallo d’Avola (2013), as Grinzane Cavour, SuperFlaiano, SuperVittorini, Campiello,
I pesci devono nuotare (2015) and Respirano i muri Volponi, Lo Straniero, and Viareggio-Rèpaci.
A MUST READ BECAUSE:
This is a love story.
The story of a forbidden love, judged
and surrounded by eyes as sharp as thorns.
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Fulvio Ervas FICTION
Mario Fortunato
The Little Book South
of Prodigious Insects SU D
P I C COL O L I BRO DI E NT OM OL OGI A F A N TASTICA
A gang of children fascinated by insects Melchior, Mr Flood, Madame Lamarr A tale of love and loss set in Calabria, stopped in their travels and happily settled,
and disappointed in adults. A villa filled and Greenway, the time doctor, are the where the Greeks stopped and settled. a land now full of ruins and sun, the novel
with pensioners and butterflies. villa’s not-so-youthful residents, and each The story of a middle class family in takes us back at the time when notaries
one of them is there for a precise and southern Italy throughout the last century. and lawyers were undiscussed authorities
Daisy, Red, Imre, Ebony and Saul: out-of- secret reason. This is the story of the in small towns. Meet the Notaio, his lover
the-ordinary names for out-of-the-ordinary extraordinary things that happen when the The story of a middle class family in Magda, a Polish countess and a spy, and
children. Children who feel stifled in their melancholy patience of old age encounters Calabria from the beginning of the XX delve into their love story in Naples; meet
grey home town with its distant and rather the hopeful, hungry urgency of youth. In century to our times told from the point the Farmacista, owner of the first chemist’s
hopeless adults. Only the strange describing the tiniest of nature’s creatures, of view of Valentino, set to leave southern shop in town, his wife Lea and their
exoskeletons and preposterous iridescence this is a book that talks about us – because Italy in the Seventies as a young man in children; follow the paths where these lives
of insects arouse the gang’s enthusiasm. life’s tough carapace can and does crack order to find a better life elsewhere, and cross, and Tamara, Mara for short, marries
In the search for new specimens to add to open, revealing wings ready for the miracle then bound in his middle age to rake into the Notaio’s family; get to know
their collection, the kids set off towards of flight. through and rebuild memories of old like charming Uncle Giorgio, an extravagant
the villa in which, it is said, a huge all of us do when looking for roots. Set loner, owner of two small Gauguins, and
butterfly house is to be found. Emily, in Magna Grecia, the land where Greeks Gioacchino, the house ghost...
F U LV I O E RV A S M A R I O F O R T U N AT O
is a science teacher and a writer. In 1999 he was joint and much-translated Se ti abbraccio non aver paura [Don’t has published the following books with Bompiani: Luoghi the Mondello and Super Mondello- Città di Palermo Prizes),
winner of the Premio Calvino, sharing the prize with Paola Be Afraid if I Hug You] which in 2019 became a film (Volare/ naturali, immigrate (with Salah Methnani), I giorni innocenti Quelli che ami non muoiono, Tre giorni a Parigi, Le voci di
Mastrocola. Since then he has published a host of books, Tutto il mio folle amore) directed by Gabriele Salvatores della guerra (finalist for the 2007 Strega Prize and winner of Berlino, Noi tre and Tutti i nostri errori.
including Tu non tacere, Follia docente, Nonnitudine, the and starring Valeria Golino, Claudio Santamaria and Diego
eight Inspector Stucky novels, from which a film starring Abatantuono.
Giuseppe Battiston was made in 2017, and the much-loved
A novel about the passing of time and the A tale of war and peace, politics and power,
force of nature linking generations. told in an elegant, detached prose.
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Marina Jarre
The Lady of Rue de Vaugirard Distant Fathers
L A DA M A DI RUE DE V A UGI RA RD I PAD R I LO N TAN I
A rug glued to the floor in a Parisian and which Gorbio (who is not entirely An author to rediscover. grandparents, the new family Marina
apartment which is up for sale; a letter unknown to the criminal justice system) creates in Italy – undergo a strict
from Gioacchino Rossini to an over- is set to recover at any cost. Thus begins A story in autobiographic form, that perspective check. The narrative voice
insistent lover; a marriage for money (or a witty detective story teeming with unfurls from the author’s native country, speaks to itself, to the key characters
perhaps not); an unsigned painting... music, culture and figures from the past, Latvia, during the 1920s and 30s to the in the narrator’s life and to the reader,
and in which we encounter the portrait of Waldensian Valleys just outside the facing with courage the passage from
At the Bibliothèque Nationale Camillo a mysterious female traveller from which metropolitan spread of Turin, and in childhood to adolescence and the
Monghidoro is researching Rossini’s the signature has been erased, a mature the city itself in these days, but with a relationship with inaccessible parents.
years in Paris; at the same time he is also noblewoman answering to the name of narration devoid of any nostalgic fluff. This story is the author’s masterpiece, the
in the process of purchasing a flat from Antea, her latest boyfriend Titto Torbole, The family figures and environment – book in which her precise, poetic, and
Bruno Gorbio – the apartment in which and the courteous owner of a crêperie an elusive and very handsome father, a extraordinary writing reaches its peak.
the vendor’s mother spent the last ten located in the building where D’Artagnan cultured and severe mother, a sister, the
years of her life. No one can fail to notice may once have lived...
the magnificent Aubusson rug that has
been glued to the drawing room floor
STEFANO JACINI MARINA JARRE
is a writer, editor, journalist and a lover of and an expert was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1925, and lived in Italy from accento straniero, Viaggio a Ninive, Galambra, Ascanio and
in classical music. With Bompiani he has published Dio e 1935 until her death in 2016. The character psychological Margherita, Tre giorni alla fine di luglio , Un altro pezzo di
monsieur Divan, Tu non nascesti audace, L’invidia degli dei analysis, cultural identity and autobiographical themes are mondo, Ti ho aspettato, Simone, Ritorno in Lettonia (winner of
and Mefisto Valzer. the central points of her novels and stories. Here we recall Il 2004 Grinzane Cavour Prize), Il silenzio di Mosca and Fuochi.
tramviere impazzito, Negli occhi di una ragazza, Un leggero
STEFANO JACINI Music, art and irony for an elegant, “I’m never sure about my gestures:
exhilarating detective story which invites there is no accord between me and the
us to acknowledge the humour in human surrounding space! When I move, I have
absurdity. to disentangle myself from thousands
of invisible knots.”
Upon all the things in her life, Jarre casts
the same detached, alienating and slightly
ironic gaze.
Marta Barone
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Melissa Magnani FICTION
Lia Piano
Teodoro Planimetry of a Happy Family
PLAN IMETR IA D I U N A FAMIG LIA FELICE
A debut novel about the sacredness of his existence. His life is a secret buried Are all the families alike? A funny, clever dangerously fond of chemistry; and la
family bonds. in memory. But Teodoro speaks, talks, and a bit magic debut novel. Nana, who tells the story from her 6 y.o.
reveals. He gets closer, touches, comforts point of view. And then there’s the big
Teodoro is a child who has lived for eleven his brothers and parents with love, Father can draw, loves the sea, villa on the hill, where the family has just
days. He now occupies a place suspended tenderness and complicity. The scattered challenges gravity laws and is building moved to put down roots and, finally,
in mid-air. From there he observes life splinters of each existence recompose a sail boat in the basement; Mother is become normal. But in order to do so
happening after him. He retraces his in Teodoro’s whispering voice, in a beautiful, wears high heels and keeps they should shush away the animals of
places, under the bell tower, in the country village where life rhythms follow stacks of books around herself; Mary, the all kind that keep coming to live there;
field where horses are resting, inside the seasons, the rituals of the land, the nurse, speaks in strict Calabrese dialect, to shut the doors and the windows to
his house. He looks again for his place migration of birds. can’t read and her heart is bigger than keep the wind at bay; to stop sleeping
in his mother’s arms, among his father’s A child who is not there, who has been the garden around the house. Then there all together on the floor to enjoy the
words. He pronounces the names of his there when too little, and who follows the are the three children: Marco, struggling moonlight... But what if the planimetry of
brothers: Ero, Gedeone, Ada, Abele, Zaira, lives of his nine brothers born after him with puberty; Gioele, stuttering and a happy family is just that?
Giacinto, Libero, Pellegrino, and Mario. like a devoted small shadow.
Nine, all born after him, all oblivious of
MELISSA MAGNANI LIA PIANO
was born in Correggio in 1992, and when not in Correggio, was born in Genoa in 1972. She has been working with his
she spends her time in Bologna, working in art and fashion. father at the Renzo Piano Foundation since 2004. She lives
This is her debut novel. between Paris, Genoa and any other place in the world.
A debut novel of sensitivity and An original story, fairy and funny,
substance, suffused with the timeless about a childhood and a life, where
immutable stuff of rural life. the only true privilege is happiness.
Il Libraio
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Aurelio Picca FICTION
Alcide Pierantozzi
The Greatest Criminal in Rome The Inconvenience of Being Loved
Was a Friend of Mine L’IN CO N VEN IEN TE D I ESSER E AMATI
I L P I Ù GRA NDE C RI M I NA L E DI ROM A È STATO AMICO MIO
A look straight into the life of a criminal Bianciardi, a man living in a small A young musician who returns to her child in a tiring marriage, and falls
that has never been told before. pensione on Lake Albano. At the age of Abruzzo from Milan, his passion for his in love with her, against all his logical
Fiction is intertwined with testimonies twenty, not even, Alfredo meets Lallo aunt, his desire to love without prejudice, thoughts and predictions. Victim of a
selected from courtroom trial documents. and is stricken by him. He becomes his breaking away from rules. brutal man, Sonia becomes the centre
accomplice, except he has never killed. of a new project for Paride, but he will
Seven homicides, four kidnappings, eleven Today, while recalling his friendship and Paride is 33 years old and dreams of have to leave again to make it work.
sentencings, two successful escapes from almost filial relationship with the ferocious becoming a famous singer, but maybe it’s Around them, Manolo, the beach boy,
prison. Ludovino De Sanctis is a name criminal, Alfredo goes back over his own too late for him. His secret relationship sensitive and intriguing under his bully’s
that made Rome tremble in the Sixties. life. He goes around with a cattle-gun, with an older and powerful man suddenly skin; Gianmaria, the small nephew; and
Called “The Beast” as well as “Lallo and wants to kill or die. In his head ceases. He has no choice but to leave a crowd of marginal characters, like
the Lame”, he took part in robberies there is only one track: the lullaby his Milan and go back to Abruzzo, to live the forgetful ex-teacher and the Korean
with the underworld Marsigliesi clan, daughter Monique used to sing as a child. in his grandparents’ house together acrobatic diver, populating the days and
and was a heinous assassin. Never has Monique, like Lallo’s daughter, who has with his uncle and his uncle’s family. nights of the Riviera.
literature or cinema told his story before. suffered violence, and must be revenged... Here Paride gets to know Sonia, his
The protagonist of this story is Alfredo beautiful and surly aunt, trapped with
AURELIO PICCA ALCIDE PIERANTOZZI
was born in Velletri. He has published, amongst other Bellissima (1999), Sacrocuore (2003), Via Volta della morte was born in 1985 in San Benedetto del Tronto. He published
works, the compendium Per punizione (1990), the collection (2006), Se la fortuna è nostra (2011, Premio Hemingway his first book Uno in diviso in 2006, also as a graphic novel.
of short stories La schiuma (1992), and the novels L’esame and Premio Flaiano). Bompiani has published Addio (2012), This is his first title with Bompiani. He writes for newspapers
di maturità (1995), I mulatti (1996), Tuttestelle (1998, Un giorno di gioia (2014) and the civil poem L’Italia è and magazines.
Premio Alberto Moravia, Superpremio Grinzane Cavour), morta, io sono l’Italia (2011).
Marvellous and wicked: Picca’s Rome, as A disarming and painful story, that tells
it has always been. us how complex it is to understand what
Corrado Augias attracts us and to which extent we can
fight to love and be loved.
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Alessandro Raveggi FICTION
Igiaba Scego
Big Karma. T h e Colour Line. Lafanu Brown’s
Carlo Coccioli’s Lives Grand Tour
G R A N DE KA RM A . V I T E DI C A RL O C OC CIOLI LA LIN EA D EL CO LO R E. IL G R AN D TO U R D I LAFAN U B R O WN
An on-the-road novel on the footsteps chases his traces around the world. Coccioli Italy, the last years of 19th century. the indignation bursts out. In that very
of one of the most enigmatic Italian was a very original author who wrote in Italian, A black American woman painter. moment an American woman, a painter,
writers, Carlo Coccioli, on his 100th birth Spanish and French, a partisan, an animal Italy, 2019. An Italian woman writer Lafanu Brown, which has been living in
anniversary. rights guru, the first one to openly speak about of Ethiopian origins, an expert in Rome for years, is strolling around the
the challenges facing homosexuals in colonialism. An intense historical novel city. She is black and the rage of the
Following the great success of Piccolo Karma Catholic Italy. Close to Malaparte and Cocteau, that looks at our past out of love for our crowd takes it out on her, but a man
will we finally get to read the mysterious he was a finalist at Premio Campiello. Perhaps it future. sees it all and saves her. His name is
Grande Karma? Author and critic Walter Siti was the multifaceted nature of his genius Ulisse, and Lafanu tells her story: her
wrote: “One of the most striking elements in which caused his fall into oblivion. Travelling December 26th, 1887: at Dogali, birth in a Chippewa tribe, abolitionism
Coccioli’s narration is the genuine authenticity between Mexico, Paris and Florence, and Eritrea, five hundred Italian soldiers are and violence, the big choice that took her
with which he refuses the idea of a literature above all, on the fine line between reality killed during a fight against Ethiopian onboard a ship to England and Italy, far
independent from life.” In such a spirit Raveggi and fiction, this book uses the instruments troops. When the news get to Rome from love but possibly closer to freedom.
has chosen to tell us about the writer through of art to explore the enigma of one of
the story of his own life, recounting the the most menacing and fascinating
adventures of a young researcher who intellectuals of the twentieth century.
A L E S S A N D R O R AV E G G I IGIABA SCEGO
(1980) lives in Florence and teaches Literature at New York He also edited the anthology of short stories Panamericana was born in Rome in 1974. She writes for “Internazionale”,
University. He founded and directed the literary magazine (2016). He writes about books and culture for national “Lo straniero”, “La Repubblica”. Among her books: Pecore
‘The FLR’. He wrote the novel Nella vasca dei terribili and international magazines, amongst which “Wired” nere, Oltre Babilonia, La mia casa è dove sono (2011
piranha (2012); a collection of short stories Il grande regno and “Esquire”. He is foreign fiction editor at LiberAria Mondello Prize), Roma negata.
dell’emergenza (2016), four collections of poems, a book on publishing house.
Italo Calvino, and an introduction to David Foster Wallace.
Make yourself evanescent, be more SCEG O ’S FIR ST N O VEL,
elusive than a cloud. B EYO N D B AB YLO N , H AS B EEN PU B LISH ED
Jean Cocteau to Carlo Coccioli B Y TWO LIN ES PR ESS WITH A FO R EWO R D
B Y J H U MPA LAH IR I.
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Francesca Scotti FICTION
Antonio Scurati
Vital Capacity M – Son of the Century
C A P AC I T À V I T A L E M. IL FIG LIO D EL SECO LO
A piercing novel about the struggle to with Damiano, Nora, Enrico, Nora’s 15 A grand, ambitious work that leads us newspaper. A character of a novel? Yes, were
find a centre for oneself. y.o. daughter Zoe, and Matteo. They to revive the twenty years that changed he not the man who, more than any other,
go diving together, as usual, but Nora Italian history forever. A journey through marked Italian history in the last 100 years.
An underwater incident, a girl alone, a doesn’t resurface and the holidays ends Fascism to refound our consciences Many essays and papers have been written
young lawyer bored with her job. The tale in a tragic way. Some months later, Zoe beyond any ideology. about every aspect of his figure, but nobody
of a woman stuck between vocation and shows up at Adele’s doorstep and the ever investigated his life as if it were a novel,
moral, selfishness and generosity. young woman decides to welcome the He is like a beast. He feels the time is coming. a novel in which nothing is fiction. Nor its
lonely girl. Her new relationships with He smells it. He can smell a tired country, characters, from Mussolini to D’Annunzio,
Adele is a young lawyer who never Zoe and Matteo compels her to face tired of its politicians, moderate and from Margherita Sarfatti to Matteotti, nor
pauses or relaxes apart from when scuba responsibilities and rooting, something reasonable. He is smart and strong, although the dialogues and the words you are going to
diving with some fellows. During one she’s always fled. syphilitic, sensual and brave, deeply ambitious find in these pages. By narrating Fascism as
of these short holidays she meets again – this way he was described by a Public a novel, although a documentary one, and
Security report in 1919. He is Benito Mussolini, for the first time from the inside, without
former socialist leader thrown out of his party, any political or ideological lens, Scurati
political agitator, head of a little opposition reveals a long forgotten reality.
F R A N C E S C A S C O TT I A N T O N I O S C U R AT I
was born in Milan. After her law degree she started writing was born in 1969 in Naples and teaches Comparative Among his many books, translated into many languages: Il
short stories and novels and now lives between Italy and Literatures at the IULM university in Milan, where is head of bambino che sognava la fine del mondo (2009, shortlisted
Japan. Bompiani also published Ellissi (2017). the Master in Storytelling. He also works for “La Stampa” for the Strega Prize), La seconda mezzanotte (2011), Il
and is author of many essays. He’s been writing novels since padre infedele (2013, shortlisted for the Strega Prize) and Il
2002. Il sopravvissuto was awarded the 2005 Campiello tempo migliore della nostra vita (2015, Viareggio Prize and
Prize and Una storia romantica the 2008 Mondello Prize. Selezione Campiello Prize).
Francesca Scotti’s strength lies WINNER OF THE 2019
in her penetrating descriptive ability, STREGA PRIZE
in her fine instinct to find the biological
matter the life is made of, A novel Italy had been awaiting for for
in her subtle earing keen to find decades. A true masterpiece.
in a handful of sounds the meaning Roberto Saviano
of a story.
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Alice Zanotti FICTION
Athos Zontini
Every Missed Appointment. Beautiful Indifference
An Imaginary Portrait of Amelia Rosselli LA B ELLA IN D IFFER EN ZA
T U TTI GL I A P P UNT A M E NT I M A NC AT I . UN R ITRATTO IMMAG IN ARIO
D I A M E L I A ROS S E L L I
One of the most relevant and mysterious participation of a young woman in love, The story of a man who sees all the faces showing them in their whole inexpressive
Italian intellectuals of 20th century comes who brightens every minimal detail and around him disappear. A book about the nakedness. Gradually his loneliness grows,
to life in these pages. freely imagines what history does not solitude of those who inhabit the world for and he becomes more and more ferocious,
tell. She recalls the tearing relationship too long, about isolation and mal de vivre. thorny, unaffected by daily life and rituals.
Amelia Rosselli was the daughter of with Rosselli’s mother and father, the Indifferent to the political climate getting
anti-fascist activist and martyr Carlo many languages heard and spoken, the One day Ettore Corbo finds out he can no tenser around him, Ettore closes himself off
Rosselli and Alberto Moravia’s cousin; houses, the meetings, the books, and the longer see people’s faces. They have been the rest of the world while another possible
she was a musician and an absolutely voices. Everything disassembles and re- replaced by a void, an oval void stretched life seems to disclose, as absurd as the life
unique poetess. Plenty has been assembles as if in an undertow, delivering over their faces like the one of mannequins. of a flat-faced mannequin can be. A tense
written about her, but this book is a page after page the heart-breaking and Medical tests do not give measurable and terrifying book, cruel and merciless,
work through her. Alice Zanotti has impossible portrait of a woman with a results, and for Ettore, a tired accountant reflecting in the deformed story of an
decided to tell her biography not as painful life, but with an extraordinary and working in the family business and trapped individual the indifferent drifting of an
a biographer, but with the visionary inimitable voice. in a joyless marriage, there is no way to entire world.
escape this partial blindness, a blindness
concealing others from him; or perhaps
A L I C E Z A N O TT I AT H O S Z O N T I N I
was born in Bologna in 1985, and currently lives in lives in Naples and works as a screenwriter for the TV series
Turin, where she works at “Circolo dei lettori”. Tutti gli Un posto al sole. Bompiani has also published his book
appuntamenti mancati is her first book. Orfanzia (2016).
“I came back, because I know something B Y TH E AU TH O R O F O R FAN ZIA
well only when I lose it, in the exact
moment I arrive late, and miss the A dense story, measured by the seasons
appointment.” and by a lean writing.
Internazionale
A work with an admirable ability to
transcribe what is incommunicable.
Zest
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MODERN CLASSICS Corrado Alvaro FICTION
MODERN CLASSICS Corrado Alvaro
Man in the Maze Man Is Strong
L’ U O M O NE L L A BI RI NT O L’U O MO È FO RTE
The first novel by Corrado Alvaro. frustrating alternation of hopes and A suprising novel. Alvaro’s most visionary By pretending to promote a fair and
delusions. Alvaro portraits an Italian and less known work. strong society, the regime controls every
This book, Alvaro’s first, depicts the “without qualities”, son of the moral part of private lives, instilling fear and
meeting between Sebastiano Babe, crumbling of the post-war years that This dystopic novel, published in 1938, guilt. Even love is considered dangerous
a young veteran southerner, and all prelude the Fascist regime. was censored beacause of its description because it draws away from collective
his women and his few friends, in a of a totalitarian society way darker good. But it will be his love for Barbara,
and scarier than the one depicted by daughter of a couple of “people’s enemy”,
Orwell some years later in 1984. After that will bring Dale on the verge of death,
a civil war between “partisans” and after being suspected, persecuted and
“gangs”, engeneer Dale witnesses the convicted.
establishment of a brutal dictatorship.
C O R R A D O A LV A R O
(San Luca, Calabria, 1895 – Rome, 1956) was a writer,
journalist and poet and, above all, an intellectual of strong
civic, ethic and cultural sensitivity, which made him able,
in the Thirties, to denounce the evil that was spreading
throughout Europe.
ENGLISH SAMPLE TRANSLATION AVAILABLE The importance of a novel such as
Corrado Alvaro’s Man Is Strong,
Alvaro is an author only seemingly forgotten. arguably the most intriguing dystopia of
In fact his works – novels and articles – are Italian 20th century, can be detected by
the placenta our nation selfawareness has considering the year of its publication
fed upon. only: 1938, seven years before Animal
Roberto Saviano Farm and nine before 1984.
Massimo Onofri, “Avvenire”
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MODERN CLASSICS Alberto Moravia FICTION
MODERN CLASSICS Alberto Moravia
The Time of Indifference The Leopard Woman
G L I I NDI F F E RE NT I LA D O N N A LEO PAR D O
In 1929, the fifth year of the Fascist mother, Mariagrazia, desperately clings Emilio Cecchi considered The Leopard wild setting in Africa, the typical Roman
era and the twenty-first year of Alberto to her bored lover, Leo; his sister has no Woman “the best Moravia of all”. bourgeoisie, the morbid atmospheres and
Moravia’s life, the Italian literary world hope of marriage or career and bleakly the main theme, an unresolved emotional
was stunned by the appearance of his prepares to give herself to Leo as well. This book stands among Moravia’s short condition. A love triangle: a journalist
first novel, The Time of Indifference. A frequent visitor is Leo’s former lover, novels and was published postumously. leaves for Gabon to make a reportage; on
Lisa, ostensibly Mariagrazia’s friend, a It’s the story of a love treason, of a his African trip he is accompanied by his
It is a deceptively simple story – five woman who feels she is in the final late voyeuristic passion and of a suffering wife and the newspaper editor, for whom
characters, the events of a few days, bloom before age destroys beauty. She inability of understanding and is the woman feels a declared attraction.
the intrigues of families and lovers. The longs to make Michele her lover, but he considered one of the highest point of The resulting clandestine relationship
place is Rome. The central figure is is bored and disgusted by her pretenses, Moravia’s existential meditation: we tests the psychological and moral human
Michele, a young man in confused but her vanity, her desperation. A pitiless don’t know life and life doesn’t know limitations of all the characters.
furious rebellion against the emptiness novel about the obsessions and loneliness itself. A very “Moravian” novel for the
of bourgeois life. His father is dead; his of modern life.
A L B E RT O M O R AV I A
pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle (Rome 1907-1990), was a writer, Racconti romani and La noia. In 1952 he was awarded the
a journalist, an essayist, a travel reporter and a playwright. He Strega Prize for his short stories, blacklisted by the Church.
is one of the most important Italian novelists of the 20th century. Many of his novels have been made into films, including La
He contributed to newspapers such as “La Stampa”, “Il Corriere ciociara by Vittorio De Sica, Il disprezzo by Jean-Luc Godard and
della Sera” and “L’Espresso”. Among his most famous books Il conformista by Bernardo Bertolucci.
translated worldwide: Gli indifferenti, La ciociara, La romana,
After 1964 famous film adaptation,
Moravia’s masterpiece will be again the
subject of a film to be presented in Cannes
in spring 2020.
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MODERN CLASSICS Tonino Guerra Luigi Malerba
The Others’ House Stories from the
and Other Stories Year One Thousand
C A S A D’A LT RI E A LT RI RA C C ONT I STO R IE D ELL’AN N O MILLE
A new edition celebrating 100 years by a crucial question about life, difficult “Whose idea was it to get inside here?” miracles, encounters with undisciplined
since the author’s birth. to articulate and with no comforting “It was the only way to save our lives.” soldiers and crooks. Waiting for better
answers. As with other stories in this “And what are we going to do with our times, Millemosche (Thousandflies),
Described by Eugenio Montale as “a collection, Silvio D’Arzo finds, in lives if we can’t make it out of this well?” Pannocchia (Corncob) and Carestia
perfect story”, The Others’ House the continuous oscillation between “This is better than nothing.” (Famine) try to survive with the wisdom
takes us deep into the harsh Apennine Arcadia and chronicle, the solution to of those who are used to defending
scenery, from which two figures a problem common to all authors of his Millemosche, knight without mount, themselves against the abuse of those
emerge: a poor old woman leading the generation: writing about the society of is a mercenary deserter who goes bush who are stronger. A masterpiece of
miserable existence of a laundress, and their time without impoverishing it and with his two companions Pannocchia humour and anti-rhetoric; a narrative
a mountain priest. Both are tormented impoverishing themselves. and Carestia, in a Medieval time where game created by the fervid imagination
the alternatives are dying in war or of two great writers. On the occasion
dying of hunger. Animated by an epic of the centennial anniversary of Tonino
and at the same time comical spirit, Guerra’s birth, this book celebrates his
these three knights are up to all sorts of inventive power.
things: battles, endless starvation, false
S I LV I O D ’ A R Z O TONINO GUERRA LUIGI MALERBA
(1920-1952), real name Ezio Comparoni, was an atypical and Corsiero. His work contains echoes of his beloved English (1920-2012) was a screenwriter of over 90 movies, including (1927-2008), writer and screenwriter, he was part of the
solitary figure in the Italian literary panorama of the 1900s, masters like Conrad, Stevenson and Chesterton. Bompiani Matrimonio all’italiana (Vittorio De Sica), Blow-up and neo-avant-garde experimentalism of Gruppo 63. Amongst his
and an author whose work was not abundant but of extremely has published Essi pensano ad altro, also edited by Roberto Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni), Amarcord (Federico most famous novels: La scoperta dell’alfabeto, Il serpente,
high quality, in particular the novel All’insegna del Buon Carnero. Fellini), and Nostalghia (Andrej Tarkovskij). He won the David Salto mortale, Dopo il pescecane, Testa d’argento, Il fuoco
di Donatello Award for best screenplay three times. Bompiani greco, Le pietre volanti and Itaca per sempre. He wrote
has also published his Polvere di sole and L’infanzia del a number of children’s stories with Tonino Guerra.
mondo. Opere 1946-2012.
E DI T E D BY ROB ERTO CARN ER O
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POETRY Carmelo Bene
To You, Melancholy
A T E , M A L I NC ONI A
A collection of rediscovered poems measuring himself with words, form and
written by a young Carmelo Bene. sound; experimenting with their effect.
A precious unpublished work This work is also a private diary, where
love, solitude, a desire to escape and for
Written between 1954 and 1958, these independence blend into a story about
poems were found amid the family
papers by his nephew Stefano De
Mattia, and represent an important
phase in the literary life of Carmelo
observing what is around; the outer
landscape reverberating and reflecting
into the inner world.
As always, reading Carmelo Bene’s
NonFiction
Bene: his enthusiasm as a young artist words conveys deep emotion. PHILOSOPHY
L I T E R AT U R E
REFLECTING ON OUR TIME
CARMELO BENE ETHICS
(1937-2002), was an actor, a film director, a playwright,
and one the most admired and discussed writers in Italy.
Bompiani has published a collection of all his works, Opere, AMLETICA LEGGERA
in the Classici Bompiani series.
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PHILOSOPHY Annalisa Ambrosio NON FICTION
LITERATURE Marino Niola
Plato. How Pain Changes Becoming Don Juan
the World D IVEN TAR E D O N G IO VAN N I
P L AT ONE . S T ORI A DI UN DOL ORE C HE CAMBIA IL MON D O
Plato’s life told as novel and an essay at listening to myths and music. As a child The lady’s man par excellance is a true bigger category is the one of those who
the same time, to discover or re-discover he never smiled, but experienced his myth in European literature and theatre. would have loved to be Don Juan but
one of the greatest figures of humankind, first true pain at the age of 28, the day of couldn’t. Who is Don Juan and why
whose ideas still have a deep influence Socrates’ death. Aristocles was one of his “There are three kinds of men: those is this mythical figure so strong in our
on all of us. pupils and from his master’s teaching he who believe they are Don Juan; those imagination? We know he was a seducer
set off his path of thought and created a who believe the were Don Juan; and but this is just one face of his character,
Aristocles, later known as Plato, was whole philosophical universe. Annalisa those who believe they might have been which Marino Niola investigates
born out of the union of two of the most Ambrosio tells us the life of Plato by Don Juan but never wanted to” – Ortega throughout all Europe.
important families in Athens. He grew up making it similar to our ordinary ones. y Gasset used to say. But maybe the
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attended the Holden School and edited together with is an anthropologist and teaches at Suor Orsola Benincasa foreign newspapers. Bompiani also published Miti d’oggi,
Alessandro Baricco the high school anthology La seconda Univerisity in Naples. He writes for “ll Venerdì” di “La Hashtag. Cronache da un paese connesso and Il presente in
luna. Repubblica”, “L’Espresso”, “D. La Repubblica” and other poche parole.
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