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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The Gift of the Innocent
If it weren’t for the fact that the book is yellowed, flecked, cracked, if it weren’t for the fact that the edition (Garzanti 1942) is a reprint of the original for the publishing Treves of 1926, I would say that the style of “The Gift of the Innocent”, by Milly Dandolo, is similar to that of many contemporary authors, surprisingly modern for the time, albeit influenced by the decadent climate. It is no coincidence that Dandolo, in addition to being a writer for children — a collaborator of Il Giornalino at the age of fourteen, together with Gian Burrasca’s Vamba — was also a translator of foreign masterpieces. Italian versions and adaptations of Dickens, Maupassant, Katherine Mansfield, Bernardin de Saint Pierre, D. H. Lawrence and Barrie are due to her.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Families
Enchanted Fairy tales
acob Ludwig Karl Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786–1859) were brothers, very close to the point that, when one of the two had a family, the other went to live with him. The numerous disappointments then led them to close themselves in their own fantasy world, a bit like what happened to Tolkien in the last part of his life. Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, they were linguists and philologists, founding fathers of Germanistics, authors of a very important dictionary that was completed posthumously only in the sixties. Jakob is also famous in glottology for the famous law that takes its name from him: the first consonant rotation (Erste Lautverschiebung).
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Education
Patrizia Garofalo and Cinzia Demi, "Tra Livorno e Genova, il poeta delle due città"
There are literary essays that enlighten, enrich, make people say: “Here, this is exactly what I thought and felt”. There are others dripping academia, for example those read on university days, when you had to waste an hour, not to study the poet or novelist in question, but just to understand what the critic meant with his nebula jumble of words. We students ended up telephoning one another, asking: “But what did you get?” We tried to reconstruct the thread of the discourse, to “translate” the text into an understandable Italian, laboriously linking the subject and the predicate. Often, in the end, once paraphrased and vulgarized, the essay could be summed up in three or four key concepts. We felt, then, the need to move away from a world made up only of people talking to themselves, and immerse ourselves in real life, in concrete things.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Poets
Vampires
Perhaps if Abraham (Bram) Stoker (1847–1912) had not suffered from an illness that forced him to bed until he was eight, the themes of endless sleep and resurrection from the world of the dead would not have inflamed his imagination so much. The miraculous physical recovery of which he was the protagonist, capable of transforming a sick person into an athlete, has much in common with the myth of the vampire who, through blood, rejuvenates, regenerates his own tissues, reverses the course of nature.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Geeks
Iceland, Finland and the myths dear to Tolkien
Thingvellir: behind the black basalt buttress, in front the immense lawn covered with lichen where the Althing, the open-air parliament of Icelanders, was held. In the cold, sulfur-smelling air, in this land of asphalt-colored lava, between pumice dunes and puffs of geysers, it is necessary to classify memories and mental associations that pile up confusedly in our heads.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Fiction
Men are from Mars, Women from Venus
From the seventies to the nineties there was a flourishing of American self-help manuals: how to strengthen self-esteem, how to understand yourself, how to improve your social performance and relationships with others. There is no lady who hasn’t read “Women Who Love Too Much” by Robin Norwood (in pure seventies awareness style), identifying herself with the pathetic figure hanging on the wire of a telephone that doesn’t ring. We’ve all had at least one look at Wayne Dyer’s “Your Wrong Zones” (1977) or Daniel Goleman’s “Emotional Intelligence”. But there is a text that has beaten all the others and that has remained in the ranking 121 weeks and has sold 50 million copies: “Men are from Mars, Women from Venus”, written in 1993 by John Gray, a psychologist specializing in the study of couple problems.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Humans
The King is Naked
That the publishing world is not transparent, that the little fish are devoured by the big ones, that the good ones, if not famous for other reasons, have no chance to be published and known, that some writers produce bullshit but sell millions of copies thanks to hype, that literary cases are assembled at the desk, that books are directly commissioned by publishers to prominent personalities and then written by ghost writers, by now we all know and those who do not know are not the least familiar with this reality and still live, lucky them, in the world of dreams.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Fiction
Carlo Valentini, Elvira the model of Modigliani
“Death overtook him when he came to glory” Being portrayed by Modì, it was used to say in the environment, was like “having your soul undressed”. The setting is that of Montmatre and Montparnasse, the portrait in particular stands out on the cover of Carlo Valentini’s book: “Elvira the model of Modigliani”.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Geeks
George MacDonald, "At the Back of the North Wind"
George MacDonald, known for his fairy tales and his fantastic novels, moved into that pre-Raphaelite atmosphere of which William Morris was a part and entered the context of acquaintances that included Mary Shelley, John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, William Thackeray , Mark Twain (whom he was friends with) and CS Lewis.
By Patrizia Poli4 years ago in Fiction
