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Beyond the Traveller's Gaze
This book offers a stimulating analysis of three non-canonical texts in different genres written by British women who lived in Sicily in the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. These texts cover a series of crucial political events as well as social and cultural changes which affected the history of Sicily during the period in question, all seen through the direct and indirect experiences of the authors. The book offers a historical perspective on the late-Victorian and Edwardian representations of post-Unification Italy. At the same time the author challenges current critical literature on travel writing which tends to analyse travel texts without mak...
Il nipote del Negus
Anni 1929-1932. Il nipote del Negus, il principe Grhane Sollassié Mbassa, si trova a frequentare la Regia Scuola Mineraria di Vigàta. Da questo fatto vero Andrea Camilleri trae spunto per immaginare un «gustoso dossier, cose dette e cose scritte»: le lettere, i documenti, gli articoli di cronaca, in un clima di autentica stupidità generale.
