Titoli in Italiana

In old Bari, everyone knows Maria De Santis as “Malacarne,” the bad seed. Nicknamed for her dark features, volcanic temperament, and resistance to rules, the headstrong girl can only imagine the possibilities that lie outside her poverty-stricken neighborhood. Growing up with her mother, two brothers, and a tyrannical father, Maria must abide. She does - amid the squalid life to which she was born, the cruelties of her small-minded neighbors, and violence in a constant threat of eruption. 

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936): Nacido en Agrigento, Italia, en 1867. Hijo de un rico comerciante, estudió en las universidades de Palermo, Roma y Bonn. Tras graduarse en ésta última en 1891, regresó a Italia. En 1894, una vez hubo concluido su primera novela, Lesclusa, contrajo matrimonio y publicó su primer libro de relatos, Amores sin amor.

Since the death of his father by a drunk driver, Giulio Rodari has touched alcohol only twice—and the second time was the night his ex-girlfriend, Patrizia, was murdered. The morning after, the celebrated children’s author awoke to a black hole in his memory—and to accusations of the crime. He had been known to stalk her. He had confronted her in an intoxicated rage on her last night alive. Beyond that, Giulio doesn’t remember a thing.

Alice was a hopeful young graduate student when, on a beautiful August night, her body was found in the woods. She'll always remember the night she was murdered. And she still suffers the grief and rage that destroyed her family. But what Alice regrets most is the last fight she had with her boyfriend, Enrico - and the fact that she never had the chance to tell him something that would have changed everything. A decade later, Enrico has returned to the provincial town where Alice lived and died, to sell his family home.

Joyce, Sartre, D.H. Lawrence, Miller, Kerouac, Pasolini, Moravia, Testori, Bianciardi, Ginsberg, Tondelli, Busi: la lista degli scrittori che dal dopoguerra a oggi sono stati processati in Italia per “pubblicazioni oscene” comprende alcuni tra i più grandi nomi della letteratura italiana e mondiale dell’ultimo secolo.