A first novel, at once hilarious and tender, about the decades-long rivalry between two publishing lions, and the iconic, alluring writer who has obsessed them both.From the publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux: a first novel, at once hilarious and tend
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical lon
Esta é a primeira edição brasileira integral de Ossos de sépia, obra capital de Eugenio Montale, Prêmio Nobel de 1975. Em Por que ler os clássicos, Calvino escreveu sobre o poeta: "Vou direto ao que interessa: numa época de palavras genéricas e ab
Contents:Life story by John BarthThe seventh trunk by Heinrich BöllHow I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again by Joyce Carol OatesThe coal shoveller by Keith FortPierre Menard, author of Don Quixote by
Per Montale la realtà è segnata da una insanabile frattura fra l'individuo e il mondo, che provoca un senso di frustrazione e di estraneità, un malessere esistenziale. Rispetto a questa visione, la poesia si pone per Montale come espressione profonda e
