Readings

This is an archive: it collects all pages dedicated to books. Each page is an independent note, not a stop in a monthly summary.

Maggio 2026

Uno zinzino di Zen (A Little Zen) Giovanni Mariotti
Personal irrelevancies and historical problems of infinite echo are pursued.
Music for Chameleons Truman Capote
Truman Capote returns after Breakfast at Tiffany's.
The Disqualified One Dazai Osamu
Words don't divide only between masculine and feminine, but also between comic and tragic.

Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote
I never imagined finding myself facing a story turned upside down, full of adventure and mystery.

Fantastic Machines Antonio Castronuovo
A stroll by a literary flâneur through mechanical protagonists.
The Story of the Magi Giovanni di Hildesheim
The medieval account of the Magi by Giovanni di Hildesheim.
The Profile of Dada Valerio Magrelli
This irreplicable moment where art nullifies the work, renounces the artist, and inverts the perspective on artistic action.
Medieval Goliardic Songs a cura di Luisa Vertova
A reading note on medieval goliardic songs, collected and edited by Luisa Vertova.

La vicevita Valerio Magrelli
A reading note on La vicevita, Valerio Magrelli's poetry collection read in January 2026.
The Magi Franco Cardini
The story of the Magi told by a medieval historian.
Exfanzia Valerio Magrelli
A reading note on Exfanzia, poetry collection by Valerio Magrelli read in January 2026.

The Leap Silvia Ferrara
Signs, figures and words: a journey to the origin of imagination.
Advice to Young Writers Charles Baudelaire
Baudelaire's advice for those who start writing.

Monsieur Teste Paul Valéry
Prove you're still the same person you thought you were.
The Cult of the Dead Henry James
A novel of incredible intimate contemporaneity and social oblivion.
The Celestial Hunter Roberto Calasso
The myth offers two contradictory realities: one must find a way to accept both.
How to Order a Library Roberto Calasso
The book, like the spoon, belongs to those objects that are invented once and for all.

The Wedding of Cadmo and Harmonia Roberto Calasso
A vast, sweeping book that tackles all of Greekness: its myths, its deities.
How to Lie with Charts Alberto Cairo
You learn to dismantle those who want to deceive us, you learn to tell the truth.

Punacci, Story of a Black Goat Perumal Murugan
A glimpse into lives on the margins, told with tenderness.
Pianoforte for Sale Andrea Vitali
Like a reliable bus on time for commuting to work.
Perfide Giulia Volpi Mannipieri (Mura)
The style is wonderful, sublime, D'Annunzian; the reading is occasionally thrilling.
Pataphysics is the Art of Seeing Jean Baudrillard
The disappearance of illusion due to an excess of reality.
The Furnace Thomas Bernhard
Perhaps the book that started this habit of keeping track of the books I read.
The Superman Alfred Jarry
Andre Murciel isn't a Superman, he's a man who surpassed the steam engine phase.

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