Patrizia Poli
Bio
Patrizia Poli was born in Livorno in 1961. Writer of fiction and blogger, she published five novels.
Stories (83/0)
Accept, Limit, Concentrate
Accept yourself, nothing and no one will make you change. You are avoidant, you suffer from social phobia and this will accompany you throughout your life, therefore, the sooner you make up your mind and act accordingly, not opposing what happens to you but waiting for the crisis to pass and bypassing obstacles, the better. Avoid blaming yourself: you can’t do anything about it and, in any case, you don’t hurt anyone.
By Patrizia Poliabout 21 hours ago in Confessions
Lillo Favia, "Come meta il viaggio"
Everything can be said about Lillo Favia’s “As a destination the journey”, except that it is not original. Not for the content — which is still a male story of sex, drugs and rock and roll — but rather for the style. Usually texts of this kind, in the wake of the various Kerouack, Bukowski, Carver etc, which rage in today’s fiction produced by males aged twenty and over, are written in a “postmodern” language full of vulgarity, now standardized to the point of becoming anonymous. Lillo Favia’s novel, on the other hand, plays with words and carries out in-depth research, not for nothing he defines himself as a “language mechanic”. The narration makes use of a prose that flows into poetry, often alternating with it. Favia leaves nothing to chance and the stylistic analysis becomes existential.
By Patrizia Poli7 days ago in Fiction
L'uomo del sorriso
This is a glimpse from chapter 9 of my “The Man with a Smile”. After traversing back roads and paths all day, Maria de Migdal settled down to spend a restless night outside her tent. She had refused the company of the other women, she had crouched next to the portly Astaroth, to absorb the warmth.
By Patrizia Poli18 days ago in Fiction
Grant Allen, "The British Barbarians"
“The British Barbarians “, by Grant Allen, published by Marchetti, opens the” Dodo d’oro “series, consisting of works of literature in English which, for various reasons, have disappeared from cultural memory and never been translated, at least into Italian, before.
By Patrizia Poli19 days ago in Fiction
Gauguin's Flowers
Sara took off her glasses and rubbed her eyes, tired from the light of halogen lamps. In her short-sighted world, the butcher’s shop merged into a liquid shadow with the pharmacy next door. She put the glasses back on in time to see the dust at the passage of a truck, strangled in the narrow and dark street. Together, a strong smell of gunpowder irritated her nostrils.
By Patrizia Poli28 days ago in Fiction
Marco Saverio Loperfido, "Claude Glass"
“The landscape architect places himself behind what he wants to portray and thanks to the convex mirror he sees it all enclosed in front of him. Don’t you find that there are similarities with your way of looking at Italy, that is, through the lens of my gaze, placed behind you over time?”
By Patrizia Poliabout a month ago in Fiction
George MacDonald, "Lilith's Saga"
I have already talked about “At the back of the North Wind”, by the Scottish George MacDonald, written in 1871, which has Death as its protagonist. The saga of Lilith, composed around 1895 and declined in the three novels “Beyond the Mirror”, “Lilith” and “The House of Regret”, takes up the figure of the female demon associated with the wind. The protagonist of the trilogy is Lilith, from the Akkadian Lil-itu, lady of the air, a creature connected to the storm and the cat. In Mesopotamian culture, Lilith was a demon, whom the Jews borrowed during the Babylonian captivity and turned into Adam’s first wife, repudiated for refusing to obey her husband. It has always had negative characteristics, of a nocturnal, witchy, adulterous and lustful feminine. In the nineteenth century, however, with female emancipation, it comes to represent the strong woman who no longer submits to man, and it is reevaluated by modern neo-pagan cults and assimilated to the Great Mother.
By Patrizia Poliabout a month ago in Horror
