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  • Judges

    Incorporating distinct traditions and styles of crime writing, the three novellas in Judges are united by a theme of idealistic judges in an often futile struggle against crime and corruption.Andrea Camilleri's novella recounts the charming Judge Surra. Leaving his family behind, Surra arrives in the 19th-century Sicilian town of Montelusa from Turin and is given quirky gifts from the locals, but ... Leer más

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  • Short Sicilian Novels

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    'Lawrence's translations of Verga's Sicilian short stories are classics in their genre, perfectly capturing their cunning fusion of artlessness, austere detachment and skilfully engineered spontaneity as well as retaining something of that lofty style for which Verga's Italian contemporaries so admired him. For seekers after the truth at the heart of Sicily's enigma, this is required reading.' The ... Leer más

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  • The Wedding Mass

    The sculptor Lodovico Bertini turns up on a mysterious errand at the school where a friend of his is teaching Greek. He has come, it turns out, to witness the arrival of a passenger liner, aboard which is a man whose imminent return to Italy is throwing Bertini's life into turmoil.Translated from Italian (2012) by Juan LePuenGenre: novelLength: 40,000 words ... Leer más

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  • Catarina the Wise and Other Wondrous Sicilian Folk & Fairy Tales

    Well, gentlemen, here's a tale that people have told time and again . . . .So begins the title story in this collection of fifty Sicilian folk and fairy tales edited and translated by noted folklore scholar Jack Zipes. But while some of the stories may sound as if they've been told time and again—such as variations on Cinderella and Puss in Boots—many will enchant English-language readers and ... Leer más

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  • The Making and Unmaking of Mediterranean Landscape in Italian Literature

    The Case of Liguria

    de Tullio Pagano ...
    The book focuses on literary representations of the northern Italian region of Liguria, whose landscape has been portrayed by internationally-known Italian poets and novelists, from Eugenio Montale to Italo Calvino. The author argues that the most perceptive authors situate themselves on a metaphorical ridge dividing the “dark side” of Mediterranean landscape, with its harsh and mountainous ... Leer más

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  • Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing

    Rethinking Subjectivity, History, and the Power of Art

    Elsa Morante’s Politics of Writing is a collected volume of twenty-one essays written by Morante specialists and international scholars. Essays gather attention on four broad critical topics, namely the relationship Morante entertained with the arts, cinema, theatre, and the visual arts; new critical approaches to her four novels; treatment of body and sexual politics; and Morante’s prophetic ... Leer más

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  • Alvimar, The Story Of A Woman

    de Dario Tesser ...
    Alvimar by Dario TesserThe story of an ordinary girl who becomes an entrepreneurWe meet the protagonist when she is fifteen, while going to the city for the first time. We follow her in her search for fulfillment through the work outside the family, beyond the usual expectations of a girl at the time when to be something different than a mother was difficult, if not impossible.We live through her ... Leer más

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  • Idea of a New General History of North America

    An Account of Colonial Native Mexico

    Traducido por Stafford Poole ...
    A Spaniard originally from Italy, the polymath Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci (1702–1753), known as Boturini, traveled to New Spain in 1736. Becoming fascinated by the Mesoamerican cultures of the New World, he collected and copied native writings—and learned Nahuatl, the language in which most of these documents were written. Boturini’s incomparable collection—confiscated, neglected, and dispersed ... Leer más

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