Un racconto vero-verissimo

essay, divagazioni a volo d’uccello

Speciale: Omaggio a Vicente Huidobro – effe

Short Stories: l’arte del racconto e le sue lingue

Mary Shelley: The Mortal Immortal

MARY SHELLEY – July 16, 1833. This is a memorable anniversary for me; on it I complete my three hundred and twenty-third year! The Wandering Jew? – certainly not. More than eighteen centuries have passed […]

Giovanni Verga / Lawrence: Malaria

GIOVANNI VERGA / (Lawrence) – And you feel you could touch it with your hand—as if it smoked up from the fat earth, there, everywhere, round about the mountains that shut it in, from Agnone to […]

James Joyce: After the Race

JAMES JOYCE – The cars came scudding in towards Dublin, running evenly like pellets in the groove of the Naas Road. At the crest of the hill at Inchicore sightseers had gathered in clumps to […]

Edith Wharton: Xingu

EDITH WHARTON – I. Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet alone. To this end she had founded the Lunch Club, an association composed […]