italian literature

The third of six articles focusing on the Italian cultural centers in New York. (Photoshoot by Terry W. Sanders)

“It took me 83 years to publish my first book,” said Vito De Simone. And now indeed, he has. In The Ovum Government: A Way to Preserve National Sovereignty and Limit Governments from Waging Wars of Aggression, De Simone proposes...

Disney distorted the personality of the central character, replaced the message at the heart of the fable, and changed the setting…but Pinocchio is a story with many, many, levels of cultural, social, political, culinary and religious (particularly the “prodigal son”...

“There are those who say that every generation needs a new translation: why a work itself doesn’t age whereas a translation does, is in some way mysterious. But translations seem more closely tied to their time, and the style of...

This literary amusement distracted me from the tragic daily chronicle of an ever closer siege, made me reread some of the most beautiful pages of the novel and convinced me more and more of Manzoni's greatness not only in producing...

I learned to know and love Italian literature mostly thanks to four people named John, Tibor, Zygmunt e Jeffrey. Names that are far from being Italian -- someone will rightfully state – but four extraordinary scholars, due to their knowledge,...

If This Is a Man (also known as Survival in Auschwitz) was published in 1947, only three years after Levi’s liberation. At first the book faced modest sales, yet ten years later, when it was re-published, his first-hand account of survival was embraced...

Let’s begin with a little test: which of these authors are NOT Italian writers? Pay attention to appearances that could lead you to make a mistake. Barolini, Janeczek, De Lillo, Lahiri, Lakhous, Scego, Talese, Tusiani.  The answer can be found...