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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Amedeo Modigliani: Art in Human Hands
Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) was born in Livorno, from Sephardic Jews. His father is an impoverished money changer, there are cases of depression in the family, a brother is imprisoned. Mined by the tbc since he was a child, he is stubborn, independent, very good at drawing, he becomes a pupil of Guglielmo Micheli and knows Giovanni Fattori and Silvestro Lega.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Mario Grasso, "Latte di cammella"
The mistake of Mario Grasso’s “Latte di Cammella” is to give in to the temptation of narrative, wanting to give a captivating look to what should only be reportage, a brutal denunciation. The beginning of the novel, with the journalist Vanni Ossarg who has a premonitory dream and then meets disturbing characters in a ruined, misty and timeless village, seems to plunge the reader into a paranormal thriller, to then immediately catch him by the hair and throw him into matter of investigative journalism. Vanni Ossarg will go to Somalia and then to Sierra Leone, narrating what he sees in his own way. Beyond the completely different content, the way of exposing is that of “The Celestine prophecy”, in a mix between essay and narrative, in an accumulation of dialogues, meetings, illuminations and indoctrination of the reader.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Ignazio Silone, "Pane e vino"
“Wine and Bread” by Ignazio Silone, aka Secondo Tranquilli (1900- 1978), published in the final Mondadori edition in 1955, is part of the southern narrative of the 1930s, very different from the realist one of the end of the 19th century, that is, that of Verga, Capuana and de Roberto.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Giuseppe Benassi, "Omicidio a Calafuria e altri putiferi"
He deliberately risks the intolerance of the reader, Giuseppe Benassi, in this “Murder in Calafuria and other rucksus”, a destructured crime story, without investigations and without logical deductions, set in a Livorno where only streets and monuments are real, populated by an undergrowth of erotomaniac characters who practice orgies and couple swapping.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Mark Haddon, "Lo strano caso del cane ucciso a mezzanotte"
Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is one of those unputdownble narratives that keep both the inveterate and the occasional reader glued to the book, in spite of those who curl their lips and raise their eyebrows in front of a novel which is read all in one breath. What catches and affects the stomach is the point of view. The story is told by Christopher, a boy suffering from Asperger’s syndrome, a form of savant autism. Christopher has the intelligence of a computer, he can do very complicated calculations in his mind but he is completely unprepared, naive and defenseless, in front of life. With his few means, highly developed intellect and extremely fragile emotion, he will have to solve a mystery, the incomprehensible killing of Wellington, the neighbour’s dog. He will dive into the investigation with the same rational and analytical spirit of his beloved Sherlock Holmes, but the investigation will take an unexpected turn, it will force him to dig even in his own life, in the relations between his father and his mother, to come to terms with the absence of the maternal figure, to face risks and descend into the metropolitan underworld and then go back to the light of the stars.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Vikings
Very well constructed series, signed by Michael Hirst, Vikings, even if too modern in the visual system, in the hairstyles and make-up. The protagonists look more like rock stars, for their movements and expressions, rather than ancient Norse. But the reconstructions of the environment are meticulous and effective, the characters many and well designed: the blind soothsayer, Ragnar’s five children, the crazy visionary Floki, the strong-willed Lagertha, the wicked Aslaug, the just and strong Ragnar Lothbrok and a myriad of others.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Geeks
Giuseppe Benassi, "Occhi senza pupille"
The “Eyes without pupils” in the title are those portrayed by Amedeo Modigliani, eyes that do not look outward but inward. This is what the lawyer Leopoldo Borrani does, who works in the city where Modì was born, Livorno, hating and loving it at the same time. Borrani moves between an office in Via Borra and a café in Piazza Cavour. Too bad only for those protagonists who, rather than Livornian, speak Florentine. Giuseppe Benassi, the author of the novel, is in fact from Livorno only by adoption and linguistic mimesis is not entirely successful.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Giuseppe Benassi, "Lomicidio Serpenti o l'enigma del bosco sacro"
As always in Benassi, crime story is a pretext to talk about esoteric culture, about alchemical paths, which he approaches not as an adept but as a scholar, fascinated even if disenchanted. In this novel — the second of a series starring the irreverent lawyer Borrani — more than in the other two, the characters remain in the background, they are colorless like the story around which the plot revolves, i.e. the murder of the handsome Rosario Serpenti, a goldsmith and former butcher, who, already from his name, is more than what appears. And everything is really played on the contrast between what lies behind things and the appearance, between the dreamlike and the real.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
I versi livornesi di Giorgio Caproni
“Livorno, when she passed by, she smelled of air and boats “ Giorgio Caproni (1912–1990) was born in Livorno and there he set his most beautiful poems, those dedicated to his mother, Anna Picchi, Annina, called “Versi Livornesi”, in the collection “The seed of crying” of 1959.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Folco Terzani, "A piedi nudi sulla terra"
“Values depend on the point of view. For example, for the mass media, for the public, a sahdu is ruined, he is a poor fellow because he renounces attachments, houses, things. Whereas a sahdu, a fakir, thinks that those who remain in samsara are ruined. They are the ones who give up knowledge, the dimension of greatness that can be god, to get lost in material histories in illusion”.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Renato Fucini Opere, a cura di Davide Puccini
Davide Puccini, essayist, fine scholar, but above all passionate about Italian literature has edited this edition of the works of Renato Fucini. The operation, he explains, derives from the need to re-propose a now forgotten author, whose works can no longer be found.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Virginia Woolf, "Walter Sickert: a Conversation"
Just leaf through the Damocle editions catalog to understand that Pierpaolo Pregnolato belongs to quality micro-publishing: he directs a series of paperbacks and the latest bet was the publication of an unpublished essay by Virginia Woolf “Walter Sickert: a Conversation”.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
