L Arte Perduta Di Scrivere Le Lettere Il Fascino Della Posta Nell Era Di Internet
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L Arte Perduta Di Scrivere Le Lettere Il Fascino Della Posta Nell Era Di Internet
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Author : Simon Garfield
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
L Arte Perduta Di Scrivere Le Lettere Il Fascino Della Posta Nell Era Di Internet written by Simon Garfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
L Arte Perduta Di Scrivere Le Lettere
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Author : Simon Garfield
language : it
Publisher: Ponte alle Grazie
Release Date : 2013-11-07T00:00:00+01:00
L Arte Perduta Di Scrivere Le Lettere written by Simon Garfield and has been published by Ponte alle Grazie this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07T00:00:00+01:00 with Cooking categories.
Perché le lettere continuano a suscitare tanto fascino pur nell’epoca del trionfo di Internet e della posta elettronica? Leggerle per ricostruire i retroscena della vita di un grande personaggio storico o di uno scrittore è una forma di voyeurismo intellettuale o un modo per coglierne la vita personale e interiore pur senza violarne l’intimità? Per millenni le lettere hanno plasmato la storia e l’esistenza degli individui: la digitalizzazione della comunicazione e l’avvento delle e-mail hanno cancellato la vitalità e l’autenticità di un semplice foglio infilato in una busta affrancata. Simon Garfield non intende certo lanciarsi in una crociata contro il progresso informatico; piuttosto, vuole riaffermare «il romanticismo della posta», in epoche in cui gli scambi epistolari fornivano «il tramite silenzioso di ciò che era importante e accessorio», «descrivevano le gioie e le sofferenze più intense dell’amore». L’autore prefigura un mondo senza lettere e francobolli, e al tempo stesso celebra un aspetto centrale del nostro passato, una modalità di scambio basata sulla riflessione e il rispetto. Storia, aneddotica, curiosità si intrecciano in un racconto venato di erudizione e ironia, dalle tavolette anonime della Britannia romana fino ai nostri giorni: i capolavori di Cicerone e Seneca, le passioni che infuocavano Anna Bolena e Napoleone, l’anonima vita quotidiana di Jane Austen, l’incontenibile esuberanza epistolare di Madame de Sévigné. Il feticismo collezionistico di Garfield non è altro che una dichiarazione d’amore per le lettere, per il semplice «fruscio di una busta», per la loro intimità e intrinseca completezza: «Un mondo senza lettere sarebbe sicuramente stato un mondo senza ossigeno».
In Miniatura
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Author : Simon Garfield
language : it
Publisher: Johan & Levi Editore
Release Date : 2020-01-14T00:00:00+01:00
In Miniatura written by Simon Garfield and has been published by Johan & Levi Editore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-14T00:00:00+01:00 with Art categories.
È più probabile farsi un’idea dell’universo creando oggetti infinitesimali che nel rifare il cielo intero. A metterla su questo piano è lo scultore Alberto Giacometti che, per afferrare la verità e darle forma tangibile, finiva spesso per ridurre in scala l’esistente. D'altronde gli oggetti rimpiccioliti hanno qualità profondamente rivelatrici: fin da bambini maneggiamo macchinine, omini, mattoncini, dando vita a imperi in miniatura da poter dominare, mettendoci alla pari di un adulto, forse perfino di un gigante. Un’aspirazione che non sempre si estingue una volta cresciuti, e che talvolta si trasforma in dedizione totale alle imprese più eccentriche. Come è accaduto negli anni venti a Edwin Lutyens, che progettò con minuziosa maniacalità la casa delle bambole per la regina Maria, dotandola di oggetti piccoli, piccolissimi, tutti perfettamente funzionanti e realizzati dai più famosi artisti e artigiani dell’epoca. Simon Garfield si muove nel tempo e nello spazio alla scoperta di un microcosmo popolato di collezionisti, modellisti e appassionati irriducibili. Ne celebra il puntiglio e l’ossessione, indaga l’origine di questa scintilla e riesce a scovare universi insospettati nelle crune degli aghi: incontreremo allora abilissime pulci circensi, microscopici abitanti di città lillipuziane, una signora di Chicago che ricostruisce scene del crimine delle dimensioni di un guscio di noce, l’esercito di migliaia di minuscoli Hitler dei fratelli Chapman. Perché la miniatura ha molto a che fare con l’arte: amplia la percezione di ciò che la nostra mente crede già di conoscere, donandoci spunti profondi e illuminanti sul mondo, in scala reale, che ci circonda. Edizione con immagini.
The Prince And Letters
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Author : Vittorio Alfieri
language : en
Publisher: [Toronto ; Buffalo] : University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1972
The Prince And Letters written by Vittorio Alfieri and has been published by [Toronto ; Buffalo] : University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Alfieri's second treatise, The Prince and Letters, is as timely today as when first published in 1788. Vehemently rejecting Voltaire's contention that the greatest periods of literature and art are all associated with the name of some reigning patron, such as Augustus or Louis XIV, he maintains that only in perfect freedom can supreme poetry be born. His fundamental principles still apply, for the relation between the writer and the state has become increasingly complex. This is the first version in english. The translation keeps close to the original text, but renders it in smooth, clear English. The scholarship is of the highest quality, showing an intimate knowledge of Alfieri's life and of the political trends and culture currents of his age.
Letters From Prison
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Author : Antonio Gramsci
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Letters From Prison written by Antonio Gramsci and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Communists categories.
Hailed by Terry Eagleton in the Guardian as "definitive," this is the only complete and authoritative edition of Antonio Gramsci's deeply personal and vivid prison letters.
The Missing Head Of Damasceno Monteiro
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Author : Antonio Tabucchi
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2005-01-17
The Missing Head Of Damasceno Monteiro written by Antonio Tabucchi and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-17 with Fiction categories.
A literary thriller of heroin rings and headless bodies uncovers social ills and corruption in modern day Portugal, whileas in all of Tabucchi's workblurring genre boundaries. Antonio Tabucchi, Italy's premier writer and a best-selling author throughout Europe, draws together Manolo the gypsy, Firmino, a young tabloid journalist with a weakness for Lukacs and Vittorini, and Don Fernando, an overweight lawyer with a professed resemblance to the actor Charles Laughton, to solve a murder that leads far up and down Portugal's social ladder. As the investigation leads deeper into Portugal's power structure, the novel defies expectations, departing from the formulaic twists of a suspense story to consider the moral weight of power and its abuse.
Zibaldone
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Author : Giacomo Leopardi
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2013-07-16
Zibaldone written by Giacomo Leopardi and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-16 with Poetry categories.
A groundbreaking translation of the epic work of one of the great minds of the nineteenth century Giacomo Leopardi was the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century and was recognized by readers from Nietzsche to Beckett as one of the towering literary figures in Italian history. To many, he is the finest Italian poet after Dante. (Jonathan Galassi's translation of Leopardi's Canti was published by FSG in 2010.) He was also a prodigious scholar of classical literature and philosophy, and a voracious reader in numerous ancient and modern languages. For most of his writing career, he kept an immense notebook, known as the Zibaldone, or "hodge-podge," as Harold Bloom has called it, in which Leopardi put down his original, wide-ranging, radically modern responses to his reading. His comments about religion, philosophy, language, history, anthropology, astronomy, literature, poetry, and love are unprecedented in their brilliance and suggestiveness, and the Zibaldone, which was only published at the turn of the twentieth century, has been recognized as one of the foundational books of modern culture. Its 4,500-plus pages have never been fully translated into English until now, when a team under the auspices of Michael Caesar and Franco D'Intino of the Leopardi Centre in Birmingham, England, have spent years producing a lively, accurate version. This essential book will change our understanding of nineteenth-century culture. This is an extraordinary, epochal publication.
I Prelibri
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Author : Bruno Munari
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
I Prelibri written by Bruno Munari and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
The Leopard
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Author : Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
language : en
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Release Date : 1991-10-15
The Leopard written by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa and has been published by Everyman's Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-10-15 with Fiction categories.
SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES • “A majestic, melancholy, and beautiful novel” (The New Yorker), THE LEOPARD is one of the best-selling Italian novels of the twentieth century and an acclaimed masterpiece of world literature. This beautiful hardcover edition, translated by Archibald Colquhoun, also includes two short stories and a brief memoir of the author’s childhood. Set in Sicily in the 1860s, during the tumult of Italian unification, THE LEOPARD tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, fading aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of revolution and democracy. Its author, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, who was the last in a line of Sicilian princes, wrote the novel in the 1950s, inspired by the decline of his own family. Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina, remains skeptical and stoic as he finds himself beset by civil war, social change, and his family’s loss of wealth and status. While his beloved nephew, Tancredi, more practical and flexible than he, joins the nationalist rebels and marries the ambitious daughter of a newly rich upstart, Don Fabrizio takes refuge in his love of astronomy, gazing at the unchanging stars while the world as he has known it crumbles around him. The dramatic sweep and richness of Lampedusa’s observation, his seamless intertwining of public and private worlds, and his sure grasp of human frailty imbue THE LEOPARD with its melancholy beauty and power. “No novel in Italian literature has aroused so much passion or caused so much argument… The book is more than the memorable invocation of a certain place in a certain epoch. It is a work of art that will survive, long after the last sad palaces of Palermo have gone, because it deals with the central problems of the human experience.” —from the Introduction by David Gilmour "The genius of its author and the thrill it gives the reader are probably for all time."—The New York Times Book Review "A masterwork . . . A superb novel in the great tradition and the grand manner."—Newsweek Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
Heretical Empiricism
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Author : Pier Paolo Pasolini
language : en
Publisher: New Academia Publishing/ The Spring
Release Date : 2005
Heretical Empiricism written by Pier Paolo Pasolini and has been published by New Academia Publishing/ The Spring this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is an expanded edition of Pier Paolo Pasolini's long out-of-print Heretical Empiricism. It includes a new Introduction by Ben Lawton that discusses the relevance of the book on the 30th anniversary of the author's death. It also features the first approved translation of "Repu- diation of the 'Trilogy of Life'," one of Pasolini's most con- troversial final essays.While Pasolini is best known in the U.S. as a revolutionary film director, in Italy he was even better known as poet, novelist, playwright, political gadfly, and scholar of the semiotics of film. "New Academic Publishing should be commended for making this expanded version of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Hermetic Empiricism once again available to the English-speaking public, especially in the light of the fact that the important essay, "Repudiation of the Trilology of Life," has been added to its contents. Thirty years after Pasolini's violent death on 2 November 1975, the appearance of this excellent translation and edition of his major writings on Italian film, literature, and language is most welcome. No figure has emerged in Italy since the writer/director's death that has aroused such passionate opinions from all sides of the political and cultural spectrum. The translations by Ben Lawton and Louise Barnett render Pasolini's sometimes complex prose accurately with ample explanatory notes to guide the reader without a firm grasp of the original essays in Italian. This book represents an important work to have in every library devoted to cultural criticism, cinema, and literary theory." -- Peter Bondanella, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian, Indiana University "One of the greatest cultural figures of postwar Europe, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is already widely known as a revolutionary filmmaker, was an equally important writer and poet. Pasolini's numerous works are published in some 50 volumes, which include poetry, novels, critical and theoretical essays, verse tragedies, screenplays, political journalism, and translations. With this successful and complete translation of Empirismo eretico (a collection of Pasolini's interventions on language, literature, and film written between 1964 and 1971), editors Barnett and Lawton have made a wide sample of Pasolini's most significant theoretical work available to the English-speaking reader. Essays on the screenplay, on the commercial and the art cinema, and on film semiotics make the collection of special interest to American film scholars and students. This volume is further enriched by an excellent introduction, carefully edited notes, a useful biographical glossary, and a thorough index. Given the contemporary interest in studying film, together with other cultural forms, within a broad social and historical context, Pasolini's "extravagantly interdisciplinary" writings beckon as a promising source of insight. A potentially seminal text that could contribute to the further evolution of interdisciplinary humanistic studies, Heretical Empiricism is highly recommended for university and college libraries." -- J. Welle, University of Notre Dame, CHOICE (1989)