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Sicilian Tragedee
Balding, forty-something Mister Alfio Turrisi, an up-and-coming mafioso in Catania, has the deep pockets that London's financial world loves. He, in turn, loves Betty, the spoiled young daughter of Turi Pirrotta, a rival Catanian mobster. Alfio and Betty would seem to be the Romeo and Juliet of this poison-pen valentine to Ottavio Cappellani's native Sicily. That is, until we meet another pair of star-crossed lovers: gay theater director Tino Cagnotto and his bored and sexy young amore, Bobo. Because the way Tino sees it, the real heat in Shakespeare's tragedy is between Romeo and Mercutio, not Romeo and Juliet . . . Set in a twenty-first-century Sicily rife with moody aristocrats, vain politicians, inept gangsters, shabby theater actors, and high-tech killers, Cappellani's hilarious second novel—part Tarantino-style operetta, part soap opera—is also a surprising tribute to the Bard.
Who is Lou Sciortino?
Lou Sciortino’s life in Sicily is not quite what his New York granddad had in mind. In metropolitan Catania there’s more to risk at a neighbourhood barbecue than in a dark street – especially when Uncle Sal Scali is involved. The Don decides he doesn’t like the way things are shaping up for his grandson, and decides it’s time he paid one last visit to the old country. That’s when the bullets really start to fly.
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Sicilian Tragedy
Quand l'adjoint à la Culture est assassiné dans l'amphithéâtre de San Giovanni La Punta pendant la première de Roméo et Juliette, la nouvelle enflamme immédiatement l'île. Mais lorsque son homologue trouve la mort un peu plus tard dans le théâtre grec de Palazzolo Acreide, certains esprits malins ouvrent les paris : cette sinistre fatalité se répétera-t-elle sur la scène baroque de Noto ?. L'affaire prend de telles proportions que le Daily Mirror titre même: " A Sicilian Tragedy". Pareille situation est loin d'amuser le metteur en scène d'avant-garde Tino Cagnotto. Par amour pour le jeune Bobo, il s'est tourné vers les textes classiques, proposant le chef-d'œuvre shakespear...
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.
La Sicilia spiegata agli eschimesi
Sinossi Vi siete mai accorti che la Sicilia e il Giappone hanno molto in comune? Sono entrambe isole dominate da un vulcano, ad esempio. Siciliani e giapponesi adorano il pesce crudo, le lame, siano katana o serramanico, i rituali religiosi o familiari. Qui e là il senso dell’onore e il vincolo dell’amicizia sono sacri. E poi, se fate caso, il sushi non è forse un arancino di design? Questa e molte altre osservazioni sono contenute nell’ultimo, sorprendente libro di Ottavio Cappellani, autore tra i più brillanti e caustici della nostra letteratura. Una “guida” irriverente sulla Sicilia, isola magnifica e “incomprensibile”, ma anche l’atto d’amore di un grande scrittore per la sua terra.
Sicilian Comedi
Lou Sciortino, erede di una dinastia di italoamericani che hanno fatto fortuna riciclando i soldi della mafia a Hollywood, è costretto a rintanarsi in Sicilia. A Los Angeles è scoppiata una guerra tra famiglie e suo nonno, che ha la fissazione di fare di Lou “una personcina per bene”, non lo vuole tra i piedi. Con lui c’è Leonard Trent, il regista, sceneggiatore e produttore della Starship Movies, i cui film sono sempre più deliranti (“I miei film non devono incassare, servono per riciclare i soldi, che – se ci pensi – è l’unica maniera di fare Vera Arte, caro mio”). A guardare le spalle a Lou e a Leo c’è Pippino, un tipo silenzioso con due grandi amori: il coltello e...
Deliver Us
Originally published in 1963, and today considered a landmark in twentieth century Italian literature, Luigi Meneghello’s Deliver Us is the memoir, not of an extraordinary childhood, but of the very ordinary one the author shared with most of his generation, when Italy was a rural country under the twin authorities of Church and Fascism. His boyhood begins in 1922, the year of Mussolini’s March on Rome, and ends when Meneghello, 21, goes up into the hills to join the partisans. Called a romanzo—a story, although not a novel, as that term usually suggests—the book is a genre all of its own that mixes personal and collective memory, amateur ethnography, and reflections on language. Meneghello’s sharp insights and narrative skill come together in an original meditation on how words, people, places, and things shape thought itself. Only loosely chronological, Deliver Us proceeds by themes—childhood games, Fascist symbols, religious precepts, and the rites of poverty, of death, of eros, and of love. Meneghello’s ironic musings and profoundly honest recollections make an utterly unsentimental human comedy of that was the whole world to his dawning consciousness.
I Am God
Diabolically funny and subversively philosophical, Italian novelist Giacomo Sartori’s I Am God is the diary of the Almighty’s existential crisis that erupts when he falls in love with a human. I am God. Have been forever, will be forever. Forever, mind you, with the razor-sharp glint of a diamond, and without any counterpart in the languages of men. So begins God’s diary of the existential crisis that ensues when, inexplicably, he falls in love with a human. And not just any human, but a geneticist and fanatical atheist who’s certain she can improve upon the magnificent creation she doesn’t even give him the credit for. It’s frustrating, for a god. God has infinitely bigger thing...
Bug
With the wicked humor and imagination that made readers fall in love with his novel I Am God, Giacomo Sartori brings us a madcap story of family dysfunction, (dis)ability, intelligent robots, bees, and a family of misfit savants living outside the bounds. In the singular world of the young, deaf narrator of Bug, there are just a handful of people who try to understand him when he gets into trouble at school. His father, a data analyst for Nutella whose real job is to pinpoint terrorists, is clueless about humans in real life. His brilliant brother, called IQ in public and Robin Hood in the hackersphere, has his back but is ever busier training his robot. His grandfather, a retired anarchist-...
