Marilú Oliva

"The rhetorical figure found in the oxymoronic title Un’Odissea minuta [A minute Odyssey] by Daniel Di Schüler immediately calls our attention to what we will find inside its pages: the discrepancy between an all-embracing existence, and an obsessive attention to detail. It is both metaphorical voyage and immobility in a space that is only apparently circumscribed. The…Read more Marilú Oliva

Maria Luisa Spaziani

"Papa, essence and light, take me again by the hand..." https://paralleltexts.blog/2017/02/18/papa-essence-and-light-take-me-by-the-hand-by-maria-luisa-spaziani/ https://paralleltexts.blog/tag/maria-luisa-spaziani/

Maria Messina: solo-pane / abitofbread

"Abitofbread was the laughingstock of the town: children threw stones at his legs or prickly-pear skins at his naked feet; and women, who, especially in summer, spent their time sitting on their doorsteps, winked slyly at each other the minute they saw him turn the corner..." https://paralleltexts.blog/2016/07/03/solo-paneabitofbread-by-maria-messina/ https://paralleltexts.blog/tag/maria-messina/  

Sibilla Aleramo

"I look at my eyes, sunken shadows, and at the thin furrows in my brow, I look, and is it you, my poor tired reflection, that is so weather beaten?" https://paralleltexts.blog/2014/11/06/guardo-i-miei-occhii-look-at-my-eyes-by-sibilla-aleramo/