Ian McEwan’s The Children Act, whose title in Italian is La ballata di Adam Henry, is a book to be read, definitely. A title that in both the languages seems to capture essential points of the narration: the children act because children play their game somewhat better than adults and sometimes with more coherence; the ballad of Adam Henry not only for its reference to S. B. Yeats’ ballad, Là nei … Continua a leggere Ian McEwan: The Children Act
Today, 6th February, I feel as a duty my words against the Female Genital Mutilation. It is a day when, wherever in the world, people speak about Zero Tolerance Against the Female Genital Mutilation. It is a day which should be every day because many are the reasons to stop these mutilations and they belong to different aspects of our daily life: religion, society, medicine, … Continua a leggere Donne Cucite di Sabrina Avakian
Unworthily but humbly I set myself to speak about this short, but infinite essay written by Zygmunt Bauman. Once more I feel I miss his words and thoughts though they have become eternal after his death and continue to grow and suggest a sense for a possible society, despite his research and observation of human beings has been somewhat interrupted. I know it continues in … Continua a leggere Zygmunt Bauman: Alone Again. Ethics After Certainty
The Ivory Tower is a novel written by Vincenza d’Esculapio who, with a language simple and direct however pertinent and refined, tells the story of Eveline and her husband who surrender to the seduction of the Geova witnesses renouncing, at first, to accept their own reality. The ivory tower is, as a matter of fact, the metaphor of those who close themselves in something which can give … Continua a leggere Vincenza d’Esculapio: La torre d’avorio
The Leisure Seeker written by Michael Zadoorian has been for me a pleasant but also a confusing reading. It has been really like a mixture of irrational and rational feelings in a comprehensible though sometimes impossible to face nostalgia for what we have been and we are no more. A return to the past whose end will never be a return to the present, however present is … Continua a leggere ‘The Leisure Seeker’: the story of a rational nostalgia
Reading a novel written by Toni Morrison has always been for me a precious gift. A gift not a present, because reading her stories I have perceived the feeling of life, of real life, the different feelings which animate the writer, but also her research to understand and make us understand what we refuse to know and accept: our fears of the difference closes us … Continua a leggere Toni Morrison: The Origin of the Others
Il saggio di Giuseppe Serra, Pasolini. Critico della società e del costume, edito da Nulla Die, propone un’interessante lettura contestualizzata degli scritti e del pensiero della complessa personalità di Pier Paolo Pasolini. L’analisi politica e sociale di Pasolini è ben sottolineata dall’autore che non si astiene dal presentare e anche spiegare le ragioni per cui un autore così poliedrico e profondo sia stato spesso contrastato non … Continua a leggere Giuseppe Serra: “Pasolini, critico della società e del costume” (ed. Nulla Die)
Escher’s world has still once conquered my whole being. I know nothing about Maths and Physics, or really a little, but Escher has always attracted my attention because of his vision of nature and man and life altogether. This morning my feeling and attraction have been confirmed and, if possible, even increased. I have gone to visit the Exhibition dedicated to his works at PAN, … Continua a leggere M. C. Escher: Paradoxes and Points of View
Colette Braeckman is a journalist from Belgium who has become an expert about the African history and condition; Denis Mukwege is a doctor who received many prizes and acknowledgments because of his action next to the women victims of war-raping, the last prize is the Nobel Prize for Peace 2018. This book is the result of the meeting between these two very honorable people who … Continua a leggere “Muganga, la guerra del dottor Mukwege” and our guilty silence.
A book we MUST read to know, understand, act. This is not a story which can leave the reader indifferent and not only because it is the true story of the writer, Nadia Murad, now activist for the defense of human rights, but because it tells and explains the absurdity of terrorism and its mechanisms. Nadia Murad, Prize Nobel for Peace 2018, tells her story … Continua a leggere Nadia Murad: The last girl
