Patrizia Poli
Bio
Patrizia Poli was born in Livorno in 1961. Writer of fiction and blogger, she published seven novels.
Stories (266/0)
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde confused life and work, trying to manage his own existence artistically. He was a very prominent character, the main exponent of English Decadentism, as Baudelaire was for France and d’Annunzio for Italy; indeed, we can say that Wilde was English aestheticism.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Humans
Grazia Deledda, "Cenere"
Grazia Deledda (1871–1936) did not study but accumulated disparate readings ranging from Dumas to Balzac, from Scott to Invernizio. She was especially passionate about Eugene Sue who she defined “fit to move the soul of an ardent girl.” As Vittorio Spinazzola states in the preface to the Mondadori edition of “Cenere” in 73, her vocation feeds on a “disordered ultra-romanticism” prone to emphasis and melodrama.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Humans
Calvino and Fantasy
In 1982 Italo Calvino received the World Fantasy Award. The interest in the fantastic, and the fairy tale in particular, runs through all his literary production, proving that, he was commissioned to collect the fairy tales of popular tradition in a book. In fact, his “Italian fairy tales” contains 200 stories of folklore from all regions of Italy.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Humans
Moreno Montanari, "La filosofia come cura"
The Tracce Mursia series favors a descending approach to philosophy, a descent of speculation towards the individual, helping him in his daily life. Moreno Montanari’s essay, “Philosophy as a cure”, is an excursus on philosophical thought, with particular attention to philosophers of psychoanalytic content and to oriental philosophies, in a sort of “fusion”, between Hegel, Nietzsche and the practices of meditation, all integrated in a holistic sense. The text is placed within today’s anti-negative orientation, overturning it.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Humans
Come eravamo, "I Quindici"
The salesman of Childcraft rang the door, well dressed and with a briefcase. It was the early sixties, the serial instalments invaded the houses, a sign of an emancipation within everyone’s reach, of a tangible social progress made up of concrete things, such as cars, holidays, the bottled wine, the refrigerator, the kids’ TV. Intimidated housewives and grandparents made him sit in the good living room, offering coffee and spirits. With dignity and refinement, he opened his briefcase and showed new samples of books that would mark an entire generation, stimulating curiosity and imagination, forging the taste of many of us.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Education
Suzanne Collins, "The Hunger Games"
What creates a publishing phenomenon is the novelty of the subject. The same goes for Eco’s murderous monks, for Meyer’s “vegetarian” vampires, for Dan Brown’s sangreal lineage, or for James’s sadomasochistic bondage. Everything that comes after, is in the trail, is an imitation of the original.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Fiction
Mario Vargas Llosa, "Adventures of the Bad Girl"
The first part does not take off, it proceeds by accumulation and not by development, Adventures of the bad girl by Mario Vargas Llosa, halfway between the picaresque and the love story. Only in the second part are we passionate about the events of Lily, femme fatale with an iridescent name, as her disguises (but not her character) are iridescent and of Ricardo, an anonymous Peruvian interpreter.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Humans
Giana Anguissola, "Violetta la timida"
Giana Anguissola (Travo, Piacenza 1906 — Milan 1966) began writing at the age of sixteen, collaborating with the “Corriere dei Piccoli” in which she published novels and short stories. Her most famous novel is “Violetta la Timida” from 1963, which won the Bancarellino award.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Education
Piero Angela, "A cosa serve la politica"
The title is created along the lines of the anti-caste books that have enjoyed such success in recent years, but Piero Angela’s essay “What is politics for?” goes beyond the purely institutional discourse, or of politics understood in an immediate, literal and superficial way.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in Potent