Patrizia Poli
Bio
Patrizia Poli was born in Livorno in 1961. Writer of fiction and blogger, she published seven novels.
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GiuseppeBenassi's "Una Favolosa Eredità"
A ride into disgust, more and more explicit, less and less mitigated by the sublime of the art or the lyricism of the landscape, this latest effort by Giuseppe Benassi. In “A Fabulous Inheritance” we find the ever-present Labronian lawyer Borrani dealing with a case full of legal as well as criminal quibbles, a huge inheritance disputed between four people, with as many wills now in favor of one, now of the other. Someone dies, as is predicted by the first victim in the incipit of the novel, indeed, there are two people killed, and it is not easy to disentangle the various characters, who all have more or less a reason for crime. The environment in which we move is no longer Livorno but Fauglia, sweet and perverse Tuscan countryside, made of art, old dusty villas, unspeakable hatreds and resentments. Inherits are disputed, people die in mysterious circumstances, lawyers fight each other, there is even an authentic Michelangelo involved, art in the end wins over everything and blessed is he who can enjoy it fully, even redeeming the evil committed in a sort of Parnassus.
By Patrizia Poli15 days ago in BookClub
Doc nelle tue mani
I have reached the end of the third season of “Doc in Your Hands”, an amazing medical drama — there will probably be a fourth, given its success — but the last episode left me very dissatisfied. After a great “episode” like the sixth, the one about the earthquake so to speak, worthy of the best American series and of the progenitor E. R., I was disappointed by the ending.
By Patrizia Poli21 days ago in Fiction
Emma Fenu's "In Cerca di Te"
The (large and hidden) part of me that monthly flooded the menstrual Red Sea with silent tears, that feared envying other people’s pregnancies, then ended up loving the products of those pregnancies gutlessly, considering them compensation and a belated gift, that part, I was saying, recognizes the suffering of Emma Fenu in her “In Search of You”.
By Patrizia Poli4 months ago in BookClub
Bennet and Darcy
More than two hundred years have passed since the publication of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, a novel that was never associated with the author’s name during her lifetime; for all, Austen was, and remained, the writer of Sense and Sensibility.
By Patrizia Poli10 months ago in Humans
Luca Raimondi's "Se avessi previsto tutto questo"
This genre of novels arouses interest not for the plot nor for the style which, although correct, is original only in the alternation between colloquial and scholastic. If anything, as a mirror, more than of a generation — “If I had foreseen all this”, by Luca Raimondi, is set in the nineties, to tell us about it there are many small details and the musical soundtrack — rather of a climate, of an atmosphere, attributable to today’s, of young people immersed in a precariousness that is not only work but extends to all aspects of life, from study, to ethics, to feelings. It is a moral precariat of values, interests, culture, passions. A generation that goes from the nineties to 2016, which includes eighteen and forty-year-olds and is characterized by an absence of center, of references, of real involvement. A generation that floats in the void, with a creeping depression and a total absence of purpose or direction.
By Patrizia Poli10 months ago in Humans
Old Friends and New Lovesa
Since 2009, the literary agency Jo March has been involved in “bringing to light distant fiction, in time or space, wrongly forgotten or never translated into Italian”. The translation and reprint of “Old Friends and New Fancies”, by Sybil G. Brinton, defined as “the ancestor of all sequels”, of all Austenian spin-offs and derivatives, written a hundred years after “Pride and Prejudice” (1813) and translated in Italian one hundred years after its publication (1913), satisfies precisely this criterion.
By Patrizia Poli10 months ago in Humans
The Photo Novels
In the beginning it was the feuilleton of nineteenth-century newspapers, a popular novel in installments, destined to increase newspaper sales. Then, in 1947, a certain Stefano Reda goes around the publishing houses proposing the crazy and innovative idea of a comic that has photos instead of drawings. Only the small Novissima publishing house, affiliated with Rizzoli, accepts. Sogno, a sixteen-page newspaper, comes out. The subjects are by Reda and Luciana Peverelli, writer of romance novels. Shortly after, Arnoldo Mondadori also publishes a book of photo novels entitled Bolero (film). To these two must be added the previous Grand Hotel, whose novels, however, were only drawn.
By Patrizia Poli11 months ago in Humans
Who Comes Before Wilbur Smith?
We all know that Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) is fully regarded, thanks to the Ayesha cycle — most notably the best seller “She”, but also adventurous gothic tales such as “The Lady of Blossome” — the forerunner of fantasy and literary imagination, like Lovecraft, Poe, Verne and Stevenson.
By Patrizia Poli11 months ago in Humans
Roberto Cortelli's"Scusate se usa e consuma"
This essay has no title, it is recognized through an isbn code. It is the final part of a trilogy, which also includes “My Continuous Becoming” and “The Omniverse”, which the author himself defines as “a trilogy of thoughts, considerations, opinions, comparisons, hopes, opportunities”.
By Patrizia Poli11 months ago in Humans
Neither Psycologism nor Naturalism
Lecturer not in the history of art, but in the history of philosophy at the University of Bergamo, Giuseppe Fornari proposes in this essay, “La verità di Caravaggio”, a personal interpretation of the work of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
By Patrizia Poli11 months ago in Art