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Through these stories, Moravia explores themes of social inequality, the struggle for survival, and human frailty, portraying them with a mix of humor, irony, and realistic observation.
In the Decameron, ten young people fleeing the plague tell stories about love, fate and ingenuity. The adapted version of Ljerka Car Matutinović brings selected novellas, adapted to school, with an emphasis on humor, morality and Renaissance spirit.
The novel is a kaleidoscopic, polyphonic account of the life of Gerda Taro (née Gerda Pohorylle, 1910–1937), the first female war photographer to die on the battlefield. A must-read for fans of historical fiction about strong women and anti-fascism.
Adriana, a beautiful Roman girl from a poor background, wants a normal life, but her mother pushes her into posing for painters and prostitution. Her love affairs lead her through betrayal, violence and corruption to her final resignation.
The Biscounted Viscount is a novel by Italo Calvino published in 1952. It is the first part of the Our Ancestors trilogy, which also includes the short novels The Baron in the Trees from 1957 and The Nonexistent Knight from 1959.
In any case, I'm here, because I wrote poems, an absolutely useless product, but almost never harmful, and in that lies some of its nobility," said the Italian Nobel laureate Montale at the award ceremony.