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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Come eravamo, "I Quindici"
The salesman of Childcraft rang the door, well dressed and with a briefcase. It was the early sixties, the serial instalments invaded the houses, a sign of an emancipation within everyone’s reach, of a tangible social progress made up of concrete things, such as cars, holidays, the bottled wine, the refrigerator, the kids’ TV. Intimidated housewives and grandparents made him sit in the good living room, offering coffee and spirits. With dignity and refinement, he opened his briefcase and showed new samples of books that would mark an entire generation, stimulating curiosity and imagination, forging the taste of many of us.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Education
Suzanne Collins, "The Hunger Games"
What creates a publishing phenomenon is the novelty of the subject. The same goes for Eco’s murderous monks, for Meyer’s “vegetarian” vampires, for Dan Brown’s sangreal lineage, or for James’s sadomasochistic bondage. Everything that comes after, is in the trail, is an imitation of the original.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Fiction
Mario Vargas Llosa, "Adventures of the Bad Girl"
The first part does not take off, it proceeds by accumulation and not by development, Adventures of the bad girl by Mario Vargas Llosa, halfway between the picaresque and the love story. Only in the second part are we passionate about the events of Lily, femme fatale with an iridescent name, as her disguises (but not her character) are iridescent and of Ricardo, an anonymous Peruvian interpreter.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Giana Anguissola, "Violetta la timida"
Giana Anguissola (Travo, Piacenza 1906 — Milan 1966) began writing at the age of sixteen, collaborating with the “Corriere dei Piccoli” in which she published novels and short stories. Her most famous novel is “Violetta la Timida” from 1963, which won the Bancarellino award.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Education
Piero Angela, "A cosa serve la politica"
The title is created along the lines of the anti-caste books that have enjoyed such success in recent years, but Piero Angela’s essay “What is politics for?” goes beyond the purely institutional discourse, or of politics understood in an immediate, literal and superficial way.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Potent
Carlo Collodi, "Le avventure di Pinocchio"
The Florentine Carlo Lorenzini (1826–1890), better known to the public of young and old with the name of Collodi, borrowed from his mother’s country, was a patriot of the wars of Independence but also a bookseller, reviewer, publisher. He translated French fairy tales, including Perrault’s most famous ones.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
The Novel: Ebbs and Flows
I have repeatedly argued for the lack of a purely Italian narrative, understood as a great wide-ranging novelistic tradition. This depends on the delay with which this genre established itself here, due to the slow development of the middle class, i.e. “those citizens” (like me) placed by fortune between the idiot and the man of letters” (Foscolo).
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Edmondo De Amicis, "Cuore"
“Today first day of school. Those three months of vacation in the countryside passed like a dream! My mother took me to the Baretti section this morning to get me enrolled for the third grade: I thought about the countryside, and I was reluctant. All the streets were teeming with boys; the two bookseller shops were crowded with fathers and mothers who bought backpacks, folders and notebooks, and in front of the school there were so many people, that the janitor and the civic guard struggled to keep the door clear. “
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
