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

Olive Schreiner: A Dream of Wild Bees

OLIVE SCHREINER – A mother sat alone at an open window. Through it came the voices of the children as they played under the acacia-trees, and the breath of the hot afternoon air. In and […]

Benjamin De Casseres: Arcvad the Terrible

BENJAMIN DE CASSERES — Arcvad ascended to the top of his observatory and looking through his giant telescope he had, in a moment, the planet earth under his microscopic eye. Arcvad was one hundred and fifty […]

Ivan Turgenev: The Rendezvous

IVAN TURGENEV – I was sitting in a birch grove in autumn, near the middle of September. It had been drizzling ever since morning; occasionally the sun shone warmly;—the weather was changeable. Now the sky […]

Giovanni Verga: The She-Wolf, la Lupa

GIOVANNI VERGA – She was tall and lean; but she had a firm, full bust, and yet she was no longer young; her complexion was brunette, but pallid as if she had always suffered from […]