In a Few Words
Getting passionate about the great classics of literature… even before reading them!
Simple and immediate books, offering the chance to fall in love with the great works of world literature!
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY
Sarah Rossi
If you could kill a miserable person who makes your life and the lives of many others a living hell, would you do it? And then what would happen? A timeless story, between blood and guilt, humanity and life, told with all the vital energy that makes the original so powerful. A book that can change the way a reader looks at the world, and this version aims to celebrate that. Because everyone, sooner or later, should know the great story of Raskolnikov and go back to seek it, one day, where Dostoevsky told it.
THE BETROTHED by ALESSANDRO MANZONI
Davide Morosinotto
Raise your hand if you hate The Betrothed. Well, that’s a shame. Because Alessandro Manzoni’s work is, simply, the perfect novel. Written over twenty years, every word is carefully chosen, every sentence is worth memorizing. The story has everything you could wish for: intrigues, fights, epidemics, journeys, plot twists. What else? A historical setting that turns into a fresco, starting from that branch of Lake Como. And unforgettable characters, including one villain so evil that you can’t even pronounce his name. Can such a masterpiece be told in a few words? The answer is no. But maybe it can show why this book is so great. And why you’ll start loving it…
THE LATE MATTIA PASCAL by LUIGI PIRANDELLO
Davide Morosinotto
“I don’t like books.” This is what (the late) Mattia Pascal says at the beginning of this story, making it clear who he’s talking to. To those who may not have discovered Pirandello yet or who remember him vaguely from school. Yet, in this comedy, the protagonist is Fantozzi before Fantozzi: a trickster who gets fooled. Someone who impregnates two women, tries to marry two and a half of them, but can’t get loved by any. A “loser” to whom everything goes wrong. And yet, he has the courage to make fun of himself, making the reader laugh.
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA by MIKHAIL BULGAKOV
Pierdomenico Baccalario
Pierdomenico Baccalario read this novel later in life, pretending, as many do, to have read it before. But then, while reading it for the first time, he adopted that certain indulgence that comes when rereading: that feeling that nothing can truly surprise you. And yet, little by little, The Master enchanted him – even more than the wicked cat – blowing apart, like a powerful tornado, every scaffold, every pretense, and every trick in his personal library…
MADAME BOVARY by GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Pierdomenico Baccalario
Becoming a father for the first time in his life, Pierdomenico Baccalario felt the passage of time: its repetition, the necessary one, the one to invent. He then used Flaubert’s perfect words to convey the frenzy of his protagonist to all those young readers who think of the future as an endless time that doesn’t depend on them. And, like her, they make mistakes.
THE LAST LETTERS OF JACOPO ORTIS
Guido Sgardoli
The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis is considered the first epistolary novel in Italian literature. Initially received with little enthusiasm by critics, this novel captivated the youth of the Italian Risorgimento and influenced great Romantic and post-Romantic writers.
