“In 1917 [Tozzi] timidly came out with a book, Bestie, which was a sort of album of preparatory sketches. The title and the subject matter misled some hasty analogists who went so far as to find hints of Tristan Bernard. That lucid and dismayed way of seeing human suffering transposed into nature was, instead, all…Read more Federigo Tozzi: Il maggiolino / The may bug (from the collection Bestie)
Prose
Alessandro Cinquegrani: Cacciatori di frodo / Poachers
I have always read so much. Then, when I started translating in 2001, reading became difficult; I became tired of words, of trying to perfectly understand each and every word in one language to find the best solutions in another language, which soon started to happen even when I wasn’t actually translating (translators will understand…Read more Alessandro Cinquegrani: Cacciatori di frodo / Poachers
Cesare Pavese: Il fuggiasco / The fugitive
"From the square up above, you could see other hills, azure almost. I leaned against the church in the sun. In that warmth and silence, I felt an inkling of hope. What was happening seemed impossible to me. Life would go on one day, safe and sound, like now. I had forgotten this for too…Read more Cesare Pavese: Il fuggiasco / The fugitive
Natalia Ginzburg: Gli Ebrei / The Jews (1972)
“I am now convinced that the role of Israel as the unifying centre of Judaism – and I underline ‘now’ – is in an eclipse phase. It is imperative, therefore, that the focal point of Judaism be inverted, returning outside Israel, returning to us, the Jews of the Diaspora who have the task of reminding…Read more Natalia Ginzburg: Gli Ebrei / The Jews (1972)
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