26 March 2012 at 9:46am with 1 note
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Le Monde - Death of Antonio Tabucchi

An article published by Le Monde about the death of Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi.

11 May 2011 at 10:06pm with 468 notes
Reblogged from camillereads
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camillereads: evanfleischer: YES PLEASE. Good idea It’s rather difficult to let politicians and managers understand this, but culture IS richness even if it isn’t commercialized…

camillereads:

evanfleischer:

YES PLEASE.

Good idea

It’s rather difficult to let politicians and managers understand this, but culture IS richness even if it isn’t commercialized…

(Source: evanfleischer)

21 February 2010 at 9:20am
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In his book The Jungle, Sinclair wrote about the inhumane conditions wage earners experience because of unregulated capitalism. Ironically, he began writing this novel on Christmas. His purpose was to expose the truth behind the unregulated industry of the day, including the poor treatment of immigrant workers, the poverty they lived in, the unsafe working conditions, and their job insecurity, besides their low wages.
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via Wikipedia, “Upton_Sinclair” - looks pretty actual…

(…and what are you reading, Esau?)

(via museumstudies)

(“The Jungle” Alessandro :-)) Did you know that he initially published it in a series of articles? And then got a 4K advance from his publisher in 1905? The book had a major impact on government.

What prolific writers are impacting governments in the US and abroad today?

(via un)

No, I didn’t know that!

As for today’s impact by writers on governments in the US and abroad… difficult to say - guess they aren’t too much after reading, nowadays. But, just perhaps… Stephen King’s The Stand?

25 July 2009 at 2:24pm
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Leonardo Sciascia (Racalmuto, Sicily, January 8, 1921 - Palermo, November 20, 1989) “A number of his books demonstrate how the Mafia manages to sustain itself in the face of the anomie inherent in Sicilian life: The Day of the Owl and Equal Danger being amongst the most powerful. His forensic analysis of the kidnapping and assassination of Aldo Moro, a prominent Christian Democrat, in his book The Moro Affair is masterly. His work is intricate and displays a longing for justice attempting to show how corrupt Italian society had become and remains. His linking of politicians, intrigue, and the Mafia gave him a high profile, which was very much at odds with his private self”. [Wikipedia - Leonardo Sciascia]

Leonardo Sciascia (Racalmuto, Sicily, January 8, 1921 - Palermo, November 20, 1989)

“A number of his books demonstrate how the Mafia manages to sustain itself in the face of the anomie inherent in Sicilian life: The Day of the Owl and Equal Danger being amongst the most powerful.

His forensic analysis of the kidnapping and assassination of Aldo Moro, a prominent Christian Democrat, in his book The Moro Affair is masterly. His work is intricate and displays a longing for justice attempting to show how corrupt Italian society had become and remains.

His linking of politicians, intrigue, and the Mafia gave him a high profile, which was very much at odds with his private self”.

[Wikipedia - Leonardo Sciascia]

1:20pm
Corriere della SeraItalyPier Paolo Pasoliniethicsfragmentsintellectualspoliticsproving crimewritersnewspapers
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Io so. Ma non ho le prove. Non ho nemmeno indizi. Io so perché sono un intellettuale, uno scrittore, […] che mette insieme i pezzi disorganizzati e frammentati di un intero coerente quadro politico.
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[“I do know. But I can’t prove it. I don’t even have circumstancial evidence. I do know, because I’m an intellectual, a writer, (…) putting together the bits and fragmented pieces of a whole political setting, making sense”.]

Pier Paolo Pasolini, in: Corriere della Sera, November 14, 1974