«Mentre ci pare di star seduti, come Giovanna, sul sedile posteriore di una scalcagnata Cinquecento che sobbalza tra la polvere delle periferie e l'aria tersa di Posillipo, in una storia che sembra assolutamente privata, Ferrante riesce a raccontare non solo il presente ma anche l’infanzia della protagonista e la giovinezza dei suoi genitori, la fine degli anni Settanta, le ill...(展开全部)

"La Vita Nuova" (1292-94) has many aspects. Dante's libello, or 'little book', is most obviously a book about love. In a sequence of thirty-one poems, the author recounts his love of Beatrice from his first sight of her (when he was nine and she eight), through unrequited love and chance encounters, to his profound grief sixteen years later at her sudden and unexpected death. L...(展开全部)

La Vita Nuova marked a turning point in European literature, introducing personal experience into the strict formalism of medieval love poetry. The sequence of poems tells the story of Dante’s passion for Beatrice, the beautiful sister of one of his closest friends, transformed through his writing into a symbol of love that was both spiritual and romantic. From unrequited ...(展开全部)

Ogni tentativo di ripensare le nostre categorie politiche deve muovere dalla consapevolezza che della distinzione classica fra zoé e bios, tra vita naturale ed esistenza politica (o tra l’uomo come semplice vivente e l’uomo come soggetto politico), non ne sappiamo piú nulla. Nel diritto romano arcaico homo sacer era un uomo che chiunque poteva uccidere senza commettere omicidio...(展开全部)

From:TechCrunch: I’ve been disappointed by modern sci-fi, fantasy and magical realism for years, and thought I’d try my luck with this newly translated novel touted as “Harry Potter meets metaphysics in backwater Russia.” A girl is approached by a mysterious stranger offering entrance to a mysterious school… but instead of magic the students seem to be having their minds system...(展开全部)

阿尔贝托·莫拉维亚(Alberto Moravia，1907—1990)　举世瞩目的意大利二十世纪划时代小说家。他在毕生创作的近十八部长篇小说和十二部短篇小说集中，剖析了人的绝望感和忧虑，探讨了人的社会存在，揭示世界和人生的荒诞，否定理性至上的乐观主义精神，凸现了道德和行为、目的和手段、生存自由和生存条件之间的矛盾冲突，以及人的理想和现实的迥然不同。他认为：“作家的任务就是要揭示现代人怎么变成了被人利用的工具，而不是目的了。”他的小说故事性强，有多部被拍成电影。