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Vortex
"Il titolo dell'opera, Vortex, implica un viatico romantico, simbolico ed evocativo: il nome di un vento che trasporti questi componimenti in fuga, verso altri territori, altre culture, lettori, autori. All'interno di Vortex (quello spostamento, circolare, rapido, e vorticoso del vento, che solleva e porta con sé testimonianze del suo passare, o un rapido fluire di idee, pensieri, stati d'animo, emozioni, versi. Turbine, quella forza travolgente di sentimenti ed eventi) si susseguono, in ordine alfabetico: Simona Castellani con Il mondo in rima non è come prima; Mariuccia Contu con L'opera e l'operato; Arianna Frappini con Del cuore che crede; Carolina Navarro con Saudade; Delia Pagano con Delicate solitudini; Fausta Visconti con Frammenti tra abissi e stelle." (dalla prefazione di Giuseppe Aletti)
Demetrio
Demetrio è un eterno secondo. Ultimo di ventun figli, marito per una notte, magazziniere, è un uomo mite e umile di cuore. Ama profondamente la nipote Marta, che vive in città. Lui si è ritirato nel paesino di Belsito, in un bizzarro ospizio chiamato Casa Lora e gestito da un direttore severo ed enigmatico. Ma un mistero grava su quel luogo: uno a uno, tutti i suoi ospiti stanno scomparendo. Marta convive con quotidiane frustrazioni, fra un marito assorbito dal lavoro, assente e distratto, e i figli che stanno crescendo e hanno sempre meno bisogno di lei. Il ruvido ispettore Dominici è incaricato di gestire l’inchiesta sulla sparizione degli anziani. Fra Marta e Dominici nasce una pas...
My Life as a Rat
“A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?” --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a Rat Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one’s family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalle...
The Path of Minor Planets
It's 1965, on a small island in the South Pacific, a group of astronomers gather to witness the passing of a comet, but when a young boy dies during a meteor shower, the lives of the scientists and their loved ones change in subtle yet profound ways. Andrew Sean Greer's remarkable and sweeping novel is an exploration into chances taken and lost, of love found and broken, and of time's gravitational pull on the lives of everyday and extraordinary people.
La hermandad de los asesinos. El último secreto de la Iglesia Un apasionante viaje al siglo XV
EL ÚLTIMO SECRETO DE LA IGLESIA ESTÁ A PUNTO DE SER REVELADO Un thriller histórico de extraordinaria potencia narrativa Roma, 1408. Isidoro y su enigmática hija, Nour, llegan a la Ciudad Eterna tras abandonar Damasco. La esperanza de Isidoro es servir en una de las ricas cortes italianas donde pueda ser de utilidad su sabiduría, pero, sobre todo, la de Nour: la niña está dotada de una inteligencia y una memoria fuera de lo común. Pero, en una Roma repleta de tensiones políticas y religiosas, las altas capacidades de la joven llaman demasiado la atención. Cuando secuestran a Nour, Isidoro, con la esperanza de encontrarla, se pone al servicio del papa. Tras años de búsqueda, padre ...
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
Three tales intertwine around a photo of three young men on the brink of WWI in this literary debut by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory. In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers’s brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold. The young narrator becomes obsessed with the photo, while Peter Mays, a computer writer in Boston, discovers he has a personal link with it. The three stories connect in ...
The Virus in the Age of Madness
A trenchant look at how the coronavirus reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world. In this sharp essay, world-renowned philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy interrogates the many meanings and metaphors we have assigned to the pandemic—and what they tell us about ourselves. Drawing on the philosophical tradition from Plato and Aristotle to Lacan and Foucault, Lévy asks uncomfortable questions about reality and mythology: he rejects the idea that the virus is a warning from nature, the inevitable result of global capitalism; he questions the heroic status of doctors, asking us to think critically about the loci of authority and power; he challenges the panicked polarization that dominates online discourse. Lucid, incisive, and always original, Lévy takes a bird’s-eye view of the most consequential historical event of our time and proposes a way to defend human society from threats to our collective future.
Dialogue with Nietzsche
For more than forty years, Gianni Vattimo, one of Europe's most important and influential philosophers, has been a leading participant in the postwar turn that has brought Nietzsche back to the center of philosophical enquiry. In this collection of his essays on the subject, which is a dialogue both with Nietzsche and with the Nietzschean tradition, Vattimo explores the German philosopher's most important works and discusses his views on the Ubermensch, time, history, truth, hermeneutics, ethics, and aesthetics. He also presents a different, more "Italian" Nietzsche, one that diverges from German and French characterizations. Many contemporary French and poststructuralist philosophers offer ...
