Patrizia Poli
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Patrizia Poli was born in Livorno in 1961. Writer of fiction and blogger, she published seven novels.
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Il trascendentalismo di Louisa May Alcott
The region around Boston was simple and genuine countryside. “There,” says Cunliff, “the aspiring writer could live with very little, cultivating a piece of land to get what he needed for his livelihood […] and doing occasionally a trip to Boston to borrow books, or to meet with a publisher. […] it was in that circle of cultured and intimately connected communities, near Boston, that the phenomenon of transcendentalism appeared, an imprecise term and difficult to attribute to any among the most important figures of the time.”
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
"A mille ce n'è..." Le fiabe dei fratelli Fabbri
Not long before Christmas 1966, the Fratelli Fabbri editori distributed a promotional record of “Le Fiabe Sonore”, with “The Three Little Pigs”, free of charge on newsstands. The following week, the first official issue was released, “Puss in Boots” by Charles Perrault, accompanied by a large format book (27x35) with splendid romantic and yet ironic, alluring, however modern illustrations.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Education
Wuthering Heights
At three years old Emily Brontë had already lost her mother and was growing in memory of the two missing sisters, Maria and Elisabeth. Her aunt raised her, Charlotte, Anne and Patrick (called Branwell from the maternal surname) with the Wesleyan method, in family reunions a usual theme was the report of edifying deaths. The father was Irish, the mother of Cornwall, more than English, they were Celts, and this legacy of myths and folklore, combined with the wild nature in which they grew up, exalted the imagination of the brothers.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Michael Viewegh, "Fuori gioco"
Atmosphere Libri is not an Eap but actually penalizes Italians. They have chosen, in particular with the “Biblioteca dell’Acqua” series, to make foreign novels known, especially from Eastern Europe. They translate authors united by what is universal in the human being: feelings, development, growth, the sense of failure or fulfilment. So it is for the Czech Michael Viewegh, considered by many to be the new Kundera.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Liala
After 1950 contempt the bourgeois novel fell, the same that now aspires to be part of literature. But first, in the fascist period and beyond, there is a clear division between mass literature and entertainment, with large-scale novelists (Zuccoli, D’Ambra, Pitigrilli, Da Verona) and novels written by intellectuals for other intellectuals (Gadda, Landolfi, Bilenchi, Vittorini, Bersani).
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
En Francais
Anyone who has a grandmother with an apron as armor and a ladle brandished like a sword may have noticed that the legendary Artusi has now been replaced in the kitchen by the books of “La prova del cuoco”, under the Eri Rai brand. Eri is the publishing brand under which Rai publishes books, magazines and multimedia products associated with its programming, churning out an average of fifty texts a year and defines itself as “Rai to be read”.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Education
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde confused life and work, trying to manage his own existence artistically. He was a very prominent character, the main exponent of English Decadentism, as Baudelaire was for France and d’Annunzio for Italy; indeed, we can say that Wilde was English aestheticism.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Grazia Deledda, "Cenere"
Grazia Deledda (1871–1936) did not study but accumulated disparate readings ranging from Dumas to Balzac, from Scott to Invernizio. She was especially passionate about Eugene Sue who she defined “fit to move the soul of an ardent girl.” As Vittorio Spinazzola states in the preface to the Mondadori edition of “Cenere” in 73, her vocation feeds on a “disordered ultra-romanticism” prone to emphasis and melodrama.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Calvino and Fantasy
In 1982 Italo Calvino received the World Fantasy Award. The interest in the fantastic, and the fairy tale in particular, runs through all his literary production, proving that, he was commissioned to collect the fairy tales of popular tradition in a book. In fact, his “Italian fairy tales” contains 200 stories of folklore from all regions of Italy.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Moreno Montanari, "La filosofia come cura"
The Tracce Mursia series favors a descending approach to philosophy, a descent of speculation towards the individual, helping him in his daily life. Moreno Montanari’s essay, “Philosophy as a cure”, is an excursus on philosophical thought, with particular attention to philosophers of psychoanalytic content and to oriental philosophies, in a sort of “fusion”, between Hegel, Nietzsche and the practices of meditation, all integrated in a holistic sense. The text is placed within today’s anti-negative orientation, overturning it.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
