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Three Light-Years
Cecilia and Claudio are doctors are the same hospital. They eat lunch together almost every day; they talk, sometimes even share secrets. Each is enmeshed in a complicated, painful relationship that has technically ended but isn't really over: she is newly separated, with two small children; he's stuck in the apartment building where he grew up, where his senile mother, not to mention his ex-wife and her new family, all still live. Cecilia and Claudio are attracted to each other: magnetically, powerfully. But life has taught them to treat that attraction with suspicion. Then a chance encounter between Claudio and Cecilia's sister, Silvia, shifts the precarious balance of the relationship between the two colleagues. Claudio begins to recognize the damage caused by his wary stance toward everything around him. He has hidden a hunger for life and experience beneath a veneer of apathy, a mask that also conceals a deep well of anguish. And just when Cecilia comes to the realization that she loves Claudio and is ready to commit to a genuine relationship, fate steps in once again.
The Natural Disorder of Things
Claudio Fratta is a garden designer; a naturally solitary man, he is nonetheless a playful companion to his nephews. He is at the same time obsessed with the determination to exact vengeance on the loan shark who bankrupted his father and with the pursuit of an enigmatic, alluring woman, one of his clients. Set in an Italian landscape in part unchanged, yet deeply marked by the twentieth century, The Natural Disorder of Things is peopled with an authentic cast of contemporary Italy: wealthy dilettantes, ex-convicts, right-wing secessionists, left-wing conspiracy theorists, and immigrant Moroccan, Chinese, and Sikh workers. Andrea Canobbio's masterful and fluid prose captures not only the character of Claudio-who cannot stop mulling over his past , including the death by drugs of his brother -but the central theme of the book: that his history is a burden, a legacy of guilt, silence, and misunderstanding. Professionally, Claudio imposes order on the landscape, but he cannot lay to rest the tragic past for himself and those he loved
Drei Lichtjahre
Ein schöner italienischer Liebesroman. Ein Mann, der über Gefühle spricht. Der Arzt Claudio Viberti, Anfang vierzig, ist ein Zauderer, wie er in der italienischen Literatur Tradition hat, ganz wunderbar beschrieben wurde von dem Triestiner Autor Italo Svevo. Der Protagonist in Canobbios Roman wohnt im selben Haus wie seine Mutter, reist ungern, ist unfähig, Entscheidungen zu treffen oder gar Wagnisse einzugehen. Da lernt der «schüchterne Internist» die Ärztin Cecilia kennen, verliebt sich in sie und gesteht ihr nach langem Zögern seine Gefühle. Aber Cecilia lebt genauso vorsichtig wie er, und eine Beziehung mit ihr scheint Lichtjahre entfernt. Inzwischen macht sich die lebenstücht...
Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation 1929-2016
Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey's Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.
Mostrarsi
Cos’è uno snark? E come ha segnato le vite di Lewis Carroll, Jack London, e Georges Perec? Come può essere un poemetto, una barca e un mostro marino? E quale mistero si nasconde nella mappa dell’oceano, completamente bianca? Un appassionato lettore, acceso dal sacro fuoco della scrittura, parte tra le pagine alla scoperta del viaggio immaginato da Carroll in La caccia allo Snark, del viaggio reale di London nel Pacifico, del viaggio di Perec per “strappare qualche frammento al vuoto”, e di ciò che tutti, imprevedibilmente, li lega. Perché, come scopre il lettore: “Che la penna possa essere un mostro e la pagina bianca un abisso: che scoperta”. Numero di caratteri: 49.474
La traversata notturna
Mosso dal desiderio di liberarsi dei ricordi che non smettono di tormentarlo, il narratore di questo libro decide di compiere un viaggio nella sua città, trasformata per l’occasione in un grande teatro della memoria. E come in ogni avventura che si rispetti, si dota delle armi magiche necessarie all’impresa: una mappa quadrata di ottantuno caselle, una raccolta di lettere d’amore e alcune vecchie agende fitte di appunti. La città è Torino, la storia è quella di una coppia italiana del dopoguerra, del loro innamorarsi, sposarsi e vivere prima felici e contenti, e poi infelici e scontenti. S’incontrano nel 1943: lui, ufficiale del Genio e futuro ingegnere, è appena tornato dalla R...
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Trois années-lumière
La quarantaine, divorcé et sans enfants, Claudio Viberti est médecin à l'hôpital. C'est là qu'il rencontre Mattia, un jeune garçon soigné pour troubles de l'alimentation, et sa mère, Cecilia Re, médecin urgentiste, dont il tombe éperdument amoureux. Mais Cecilia vient juste de quitter son mari, Luca, elle voit en Viberti un ami et un confident, à la rigueur un amant, certainement pas quelqu'un avec qui refaire sa vie. Un jour où il doit déjeuner avec Cecilia, Viberti fait la connaissance de sa soeur, Silvia, qui l'accompagne. Dans un moment d'égarement, il passe la nuit avec elle, une simple aventure, qui ne sera pas sans conséquences : de leur rencontre naîtra un enfant qui, devenu adulte, racontera l'histoire de ses "trois parents" et, plus largement, d'une grande famille d'aujourd'hui, avec ses joies et ses peines. Placé sous le signe de Nabokov et de Flaubert, Trois années-lumière est le portrait tour à tour comique et tragique d'un triangle amoureux, mené avec une verve formidable et une grande clairvoyance psychologique, confirmant qu'Andrea Canobbio est bien l'un des meilleurs romanciers italiens actuels.
Presentimento
Può accadere, nella vita, che i desideri e le paure più nascoste prendano all’improvviso corpo nel mondo. Hai paura di volare, e la gente che ti sta intorno, con cui era impossibile condividere la pena, di colpo ti capisce fin troppo bene. Il narratore di questa storia è partito un giorno per Londra ed è tornato qualche mese dopo da New York. Tra i due viaggi è arrivato l’11 settembre 2001, e ci sono stati ricordi, lutti, persone e immagini che come oracoli parlavano della sua vita, mentre lui, nel panico, ascoltava. Numero di caratteri: 85.719
The Prince
Prince Ferdinando Licata is a wealthy Sicilian landowner who uses his personal power and charm to placate Sicilian peasants and fight off Mussolini's fascists. As tensions rise in Italy during the 1930s, with increasingly violent consequences, Licata attracts many friends and far more enemies. Eventually implicated in a grisly murder, the prince flees to America, where he ends up navigating a turf war between Irish and Italian gangs of the Lower East Side. Violence explodes in unexpected ways as Licata gains dominance over New York, with the help of a loyal townsman with blood ties to the prince who is forced to abandon his fiancée in Sicily. The two men return to their native land at the height of World War II in an outrageously bold maneuver engineered by Licata and mobster Lucky Luciano. Both the prince and his kinsman assist US naval intelligence during the invasion of Sicily and, once they are back on their native soil, they proceed to settle unfinished business with their enemies and unravel old secrets in a stunning and sinister finale.
