November 13, 2024 11:32 pm

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THE ENCHANTED MOUNTAIN, THOMAS MANN: The colors of the disease, death and sexuality

The Magic Mountain is a complex portrait of western civilization, during the first decades of the twentieth century. In his narrative, the mix of prose and poetry, makes this novel like a fresco, not of color, but of words, those written in 1924 Thomas Mann. That novel – born since 1912 as a short story – from a brief stay …

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TIMELESS BOOKS, THE DEAR CREATURE: A novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Imagine a man. Imagine that in addition to the man – lying on a table – there is the limp body of a woman (his wife commits suicide, falling down from a window). Obviously, since it just happened, that man could not make sense of the incident. But is talking to himself, he finds explanations. Dostoevsky, the author of this …

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TIMELESS BOOKS: The Courtesan by Pietro Aretino

………………………………… (Maestro Andrea) Ben is found Your Lordship. (Messer Maco) Good evening and Happy New Year. I believed to have lost you as and my familiar. (Maestro Andrea) The is better to miss that smarirme. Or here and book; go inside I will read you a little lesson sweet dessert for the first time. (Messer Maco) Ah, master, let me …

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TIMELESS BOOKS: MADAME BOVARY, BY GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

They did not have anything else to say? Their eyes, however, were full of words the most serious. While they struggled to find trivial phrases, they felt filled both by the same languor. It was like a whisper of the soul, deep, continuous, who had won the item. Amazed by this new, soft feeling, not thinking even to explain their …

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TIMELESS BOOKS: ITALIAN JOURNEY BY GOETHE

……………………………………………..Castrogiovanni, Sunday, April 29, 1787. The old Enna he reserved the harshest of welcome: a room with brick, with taxes but no windows, so we had to choose between staying seated us in the dark or expose ourselves again to the squalls we had just escaped. Devoured some remains of our provisions and, after having a bad night, solemnly we …

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LOST LOVE: A novel by Lucio Luterotti

LOST LOVE A narrative, where feelings and emotions bring gradually the reader close to the character, a man who lives at the end of a love affair. A short story, written in the form of a letter, and this letter expresses a State of soul, where the hope is always present. A love that will never be forgotten. A beloved …

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TIMELESS BOOKS: Ernst Junger, The powder clock

http://www.amazon.com/libro-dellorologio-polvere-Ernst-J%C3%BCnger/dp/8845910997 Imagine capturing time, leaving scroll inside a clock to dust all the events and emotions. Imagine that this scan has a time dimension that you decided, and that within that space you have the chance to see sediment invisibility of what life had denied you. In the pages of the book, like a starry sky made of paper, observe …

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TIMELESS BOOKS: Marital peace, by Honore de Balzac

A nice sketch, a tip given to the wives to be lenient towards their husbands. The story develops in the space of an hour, turning around four characters. In Paris, during a dance in the Napoleonic era, the intrigue comes from the curiosity of a young and frivolous legal adviser, to a pretty unknown. She is sitting alone in a …

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BLESSED BE: Petrarch’s poem

BENEDETTO SIA  – “Benedetto sia il giorno e il mese e lo anno e la stagione e il tempo e la ora e il punto e il bel paese e il luogo dove io fui raggiunto dai due begli occhi che legato mi hanno; e benedetto il primo dolce affanno che io ebbi ad essere con amor congiunto, e lo …

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THE TIMELESS BOOKS: Nana, by Emile Zola

A resounding success that comes from far away. The tale of an era and its players. Emile Zola had this published his novel in 1880, but that book – then judged extremely outrageous – still remains extremely readable, almost current, in its social and existential. “…… A set individually mixed, made of all kinds of smart people, devastated by all …

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