A Comedy without Laughs
Fragmentary stories explore Sicily as closed moral system, invisible power, and enduring critical lucidity.
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Italian literature
Loose Pages
The Others in Ceronetti’s Eye (II)
A sort of dictionary of famous lives, written with the ink of one of the most unique contemporary Italian writers.
Loose Pages
The Others in Ceronetti’s Eye (I)
A sort of dictionary of famous lives, written with the ink of one of the most unique contemporary Italian writers.
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‘The Leopard’ or a Certain Predilection
Despite initial rejection, this is a novel that endures as a masterful elegy to a lost world, whose narrative force continues to withstand the test of time and misreadings.
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‘Hilarotragoedia’: Rhetoric of Descent
A book that marked the radical debut of Manganelli, who turned an allegorical descent into an exploration of language, with self-referential and philosophical prose that subverted traditional narrative.