Italy – The Modern Novel

Jean-Baptiste Andrea:Veiller sur elle [Watch Over Her]

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Post published:17 November 2023
Post category:France Italy Sculpture The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Jean-Baptiste Andrea's Veiller sur elle [Watch Over Her]/. This novel won the Prix Goncourt in 2023. It tells the story iof Mimo (real…

Carmine Abate: Il ballo tondo (The Round Dance)

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Post published:12 October 2023
Post category:Albania Italy The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Carmine Abate's Il ballo tondo (The Round Dance). Abate comes from the Arbëreshë community, descendants of Albanians who fled the Ottomans between between…

Grazia Deledda: Marianna Sirca (Marianna Sirca)

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Post published:6 September 2023
Post category:Italy Sardinia The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Grazia Deledda's Marianna Sirca. The book is set in Deledda's native Sardinia. The eponymous heroine has worked all her life, obeying orders from…

Fausta Cialente: Ballata Levantina (The Levantines)

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Post published:24 June 2023
Post category:Egypt Italy The Modern Novel website Women World War II
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The latest addition to my website is Fausta Cialente's Ballata Levantina (The Levantines). This novel tells the story of well-to-do European expatriates (primarily but certainly not exclusively Italian) living in…

Daniele Mencarelli: Tutto chiede salvezza (Everything Calls For Salvation)

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Post published:6 January 2023
Post category:Italy Psychiatry The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Daniele Mencarelli's Tutto chiede salvezza (Everything Calls For Salvation). This is an autobiographical novel about seven days Mencarelli spent in a mental institution…

Luca Rastello: Piove all’insù (The Rain’s Falling Up

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Post published:16 December 2022
Post category:Italy Politics The Modern Novel website Turin
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The latest addition to my website is Luca Rastello's Piove all'insù (The Rain’s Falling Up. The book is primarily set in the 1970s-80s in Turin, though told from the perspective…

Marino Magliani: Soggiorno a Zeewijk (A Window to Zeewijk)

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Post published:16 October 2021
Post category:Italy Netherlands The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Marino Magliani's Soggiorno a Zeewijk (A Window to Zeewijk). This is a novel in the tradition of writers such as W G Sebald…

Maurizio Maggiani: Il romanzo della nazione [The Novel of the Nation]

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Post published:11 September 2021
Post category:Father-Son Italy The Modern Novel website World War II
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The latest addition to my website is Maurizio Maggiani's Il romanzo della nazione [The Novel of the Nation]. Despite its somewhat arrogant title, it is, in fact, primarily the story…

Corrado Alvaro: L’uomo è forte (Man Is Strong; later: Fear in the World)

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Post published:22 March 2021
Post category:Italy Russia The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Corrado Alvaro's L’uomo è forte (Man Is Strong; later: Fear in the World). This novel, first published in 1938, tells of an unnamed…

Andrea Bajani: Se consideri le colpe (If You Kept a Record of Sins)

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Post published:19 March 2021
Post category:Italy Romania The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Andrea Bajani's Se consideri le colpe (If You Kept a Record of Sins). Our narrator is Lorenzo who learns of the death of…