Patrizia Poli
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Patrizia Poli was born in Livorno in 1961. Writer of fiction and blogger, she published seven novels.
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L'uomo del sorriso
This is a glimpse from chapter 9 of my “The Man with a Smile”. After traversing back roads and paths all day, Maria de Migdal settled down to spend a restless night outside her tent. She had refused the company of the other women, she had crouched next to the portly Astaroth, to absorb the warmth.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Fiction
Grant Allen, "The British Barbarians"
“The British Barbarians “, by Grant Allen, published by Marchetti, opens the” Dodo d’oro “series, consisting of works of literature in English which, for various reasons, have disappeared from cultural memory and never been translated, at least into Italian, before.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Fiction
Gauguin's Flowers
Sara took off her glasses and rubbed her eyes, tired from the light of halogen lamps. In her short-sighted world, the butcher’s shop merged into a liquid shadow with the pharmacy next door. She put the glasses back on in time to see the dust at the passage of a truck, strangled in the narrow and dark street. Together, a strong smell of gunpowder irritated her nostrils.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Fiction
Marco Saverio Loperfido, "Claude Glass"
“The landscape architect places himself behind what he wants to portray and thanks to the convex mirror he sees it all enclosed in front of him. Don’t you find that there are similarities with your way of looking at Italy, that is, through the lens of my gaze, placed behind you over time?”
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Fiction
George MacDonald, "Lilith's Saga"
I have already talked about “At the back of the North Wind”, by the Scottish George MacDonald, written in 1871, which has Death as its protagonist. The saga of Lilith, composed around 1895 and declined in the three novels “Beyond the Mirror”, “Lilith” and “The House of Regret”, takes up the figure of the female demon associated with the wind. The protagonist of the trilogy is Lilith, from the Akkadian Lil-itu, lady of the air, a creature connected to the storm and the cat. In Mesopotamian culture, Lilith was a demon, whom the Jews borrowed during the Babylonian captivity and turned into Adam’s first wife, repudiated for refusing to obey her husband. It has always had negative characteristics, of a nocturnal, witchy, adulterous and lustful feminine. In the nineteenth century, however, with female emancipation, it comes to represent the strong woman who no longer submits to man, and it is reevaluated by modern neo-pagan cults and assimilated to the Great Mother.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Horror
Shadowhunters
During this time, I made a feast of the Shadowhunters universe. I saw Harald Swart’s 2013 film, watched all seasons of the TV series (2016–2019), and read the first book, “City of Bones”, beautifully written by Cassandra Clare in 2007. If Clare’s books are beautiful and detailed, the film is pleasant, while the TV series does not shine — since it focuses more on the physical appearance of the protagonists than on their acting skills — even if you end up becoming fond of the characters anyway.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Geeks
Ida Verrei, "Arràssussìa"
“She is still with us, Santino. In the scents and voices of your ancient alley, in the cracks in the tuff walls of your home, in the song of the surf on the rocks of Mergellina, in the color of the forgotten wisteria. In the laughter of children, who are not hers. “
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Fiction
From Behind
“It’s late, Mario, let me go”. She threw herself out of the car, fumbled with the lock, for a moment the light illuminated the entrance hall. She wore a shirt that was a little big on her. He was impressed with the image of his thin shoulders disappearing into the door.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Fiction
