Milan Kundera, the Czech author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", whose provocative novels have delved into the enigma of the human condition, has died in Paris at the age of 94. This was reported on Wednesday by a spokeswoman for the Milan Kundera Library in his city…
In her first novel "Walk lightly" the former Bolognese psychoanalyst travels a liberating path, judging and judging herself, in an examination without discounts for herself and for others. And full of "heresies"
Caterina Edwards presents her new novel “Rediscovering my mother. A daughter in search of the past" by Les Flaneurs Edizioni
A novel to rediscover. The Piccolo Teatro and Intesa Sanpaolo celebrate the bicentenary of the anniversary with the first complete reading of the work in the form of a podcast and with thematic insights on video
Novecento opere The protagonist of the 29th episode of the series of best-selling Italian authors is a narrator of extremely high narrative prolificacy. It is the Neapolitan writer Francesco Mastriani, very close, even narratively, to his city and to Southern Italy. From many…
The FIRST Arte column dedicated to the best-selling novels in the history of world literature and their incipits, which we propose here again, reaches its third episode.
The second episode of the FIRST Arte column on the incipits of the most read books in history offers those between 60 and 85 million copies sold.
FIRST Arte offers you a mini column in two episodes, publishing the incipits of the best-selling books in history: we start with super bestsellers such as Cervantes, Dickens, Rowling and Tolkien.
Here we are at the 18th installment of our series on the bestselling writers of Italian literature from the unification of Italy to the Republic. It is the turn of a lady whose importance in Italian cultural history goes beyond mere literature to assume a…
The beautiful Amorous Angel, who hasn't received so much love after all, hangs upside down on a stage, with his hopes shattered and his pride eaten by the "stray dogs" . In the show of…
The existence of a quiet pensioner, "a modest man [...] but not a poor man", divided between faithful memories of "his Lucia" and a tender crush on a young doctor, enlivened by shopping at the supermarket "twice a week » and the usual «four…
Hanging from a ledge of a high-rise, luxurious hotel that is reflected on Lake Maggiore, a man converses with the Heavenly Father, so "loving" that he has given him a life full of misfortunes. But he's not going to…
Is there a meeting point between logic and irrationality? Can science sublimate the human soul like an art form?
After the parentheses of Oriana Fallaci and Umberto Eco, two contemporaries, we return to dealing with history with Edmondo De Amicis who is the protagonist of the 16th episode of our series on bestselling authors of the past. The Ligurian writer was…
Some might turn up their noses when reading this new episode of our series on best-selling authors, seeing the one, who has been our most prestigious intellectual for decades, inserted in the same cauldron as Pitigrilli, Da Verona…
Fernand Léger, La Lecture, 1924, Pompidou Center, Paris. In the painting Leger, which explores the man-environment relationship in the mechanized and automated landscape, depicts two monumental female figures, one naked and the other dressed, holding books without resting their eyes which…
Here we are with a new episode of our series of bestsellers of the past. It is the turn, after Liala, again of a woman, but not of the past, but totally contemporary. We are talking about Sveva Casati Modignani, a refined and…
The book, published by Prospettiva Editrice, tells the story of Lilli, a "forty-year-old girl" who, like most women of her generation, experiences the difficulty of growing old on her own skin, in an implacable society that does not allow it. .
The author's new book entitled Behind the scenes - Writings and reviews was presented during the national fair of small and medium-sized publishing at the La Nuvola congress center in Rome
