Francesco Guccini
Francesco Guccini is an Italian singer-songwriter, considered one of the most important Cantautori. During the five decades of his music career he has recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live albums. He is also a writer, having published autobiographic and noir novels, and a comics artist. Guccini also worked as actor, soundtrack composer, lexicographer and dialectologist.
Guccini moved to Pàvana during World War II, then returned to Modena where he spent his teenage years and established his musical career. His debut album, Folk beat n. 1, was released in 1967, but the first success was in 1972 with the album Radici. He was harshly criticised after releasing Stanze di vita quotidiana, and answered to his critics with the song "
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Voltaire
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Serbian: Donato Karizi
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Eshkol Nevo
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Italo Calvino
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His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simpl -
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In 1980 he made his debut with the collection of generational-themed stories Other Libertines, which achieved good success with critics and the public. The explicit content also earned him the attention of the judicial authorities, followed by a trial at the end of which the author and publisher were exonerated.
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He worked also a theatre impresario, actor and playwright.
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The works of Fenoglio have two main themes: the rural world of the Langhe and the partisan war; equally, the writer has two styles: the chronicle and the epos. His first work was in the neorealist style: La paga del sabato (this was published posthumously too in 1969).
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After studying in Nice he became a teacher. He began to write for children and then wrote his book series "La Saga Malaussène", that tells the story of Benjamin Malaussène, a scapegoat, and his family in Belleville, Paris.
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Giorgio Faletti
Artista poliedrico non ha mai smesso di dare prova della sua capacità di spaziare da un campo artistico all’altro. Come comico ha lasciato una forte impronta nel panorama della comicità creando una serie di personaggi indimenticabili protagonisti di alcune fortunate serie televisive come Drive In, Emilio e Fantastico 90.
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Anche come musicista Giorgio Faletti ha ottenuto negli anni numerosi consensi. Ha cominciato pubblicando in proprio diversi album di successo.
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Sempre con Celati, ha curato Storie di solitari americani (Rizzoli, 2006), dove ha tradotto racconti di Mark Twain, Jack London, Sherwood Anderson, Ring Lardner, Delmore Schwartz e Flannery O’Connor. Ha anche tradotto opere di Flann O’Brien (La miseria in bocca; Il boccale traboccante; L’ardua vita, Cronache dublinesi), James Joyce (Gente di Dublino), Ring Lardner (Tagliando i capelli), Tony Cafferky (Storie di identità), e Seumas O’Kelly (La tomba del tessitore) e ha curato l’edizion -
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1947. The name “Yourcenar” is an imperfect anagram of her original name, “Crayencour.”
Yourcenar’s literary works are notable for their rigorously classical style, their erudition, and their psychological subtlety. In her most important books she re-creates past eras and personages, meditating thereby on human destiny, morality, and power. Her masterpiece is Mémoires d'Hadrien, a historical novel constituting the fictionalized memoi -
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He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"
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Sylvia Beach published the first edition of Ulysses of James Augustine Aloysius Joyce in 1922.
John Stanislaus Joyce, an impoverished gentleman and father of James Joyce, nine younger surviving siblings, and two other siblings who died of typhoid, failed in a distillery business and tried all kinds of other professions, including politics and tax collecting. The Roman Catholic Church dominated life of Mary Jane Murray, an accomplished pianist and his mother. In spite of poverty, the family struggled to maintain a solid middle-class façade.
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He is also the author of the majestic rewrite of Homer’s Iliad, the theatrical monologue Novecento, the essays Next: On Globalization and the World to Come or The Game.
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Daniele Del Giudice
Daniele Del Giudice è stato uno scrittore e giornalista italiano.
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