Gabriella Carmagnola returns to the bookshop with We Are All Madame Bovary (Guida Editori), a journey through 50 great novels that explore the human soul and tell our eternal desire for happiness
Inspired by an article in The Economist, the goWare team reflects on what is the right way to draw up a list of the best books of all time and how much time it takes to read or listen to them all.
With the arrival of summer we thought we would review and suggest some books to take under the umbrella, but also to the lake or in the mountains: novels, essays, classics and other stories perhaps yet to be discovered
A book of beauty and truth to also celebrate the friendship between the writer and the painter, who despite the ideological differences surprises us with the humanity that we find in a long correspondence between the two between 1975 and 1982. The…
Has technology had a significant impact on literature? Technological advances have influenced literary themes, styles and formats, challenging traditional notions of storytelling and opening up new possibilities for creativity and expression
With this exhibition "Balzac, Daumier et les Parisiens- De La Comédie humaine à la comédie urbaine" the Maison de Balzac aims to establish a correspondence between drawing and literature, between these two men who meet above all through…
The glottologist Daniele Vitali, in a book for goWare, retraces the "language question", explaining how from the Divine Comedy we arrived at today's Italian
October 15th marks the centenary of the birth of that great writer Italo Calvino. We publish a passage from his novel "If on a winter's night a traveler" which highlights his formidable futurist abilities
There is no formula or model for crafting a successful book. Thrillers and love stories sell the most, but in reality the book that has sold the most copies in America in the last decade is a book…
The kitchen has a leading role in Visconti's film, it becomes a narrative element. The inspiration of chef Francesco Bonomo to create a dish inspired by the famous scene from the film
The Cimitile Award reaches its XXVIII Edition and chooses peace as its central theme. An exhibition dedicated to Guernica by Pablo Picasso open from 10 to 17 June on the occasion of the awards.
The diaries found by Carlo Emilio Gadda in the war come out on Monday in the new edition of Adelphi fifty years after the death of the refined writer of the "Ugly Mess of Via Merulana"
The Museum of Modern Art presents Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio, an exhibition dedicated to the craftsmanship that underpins the famous director's first stop-motion animated film. A theatrical piece on December 26, 2022
Veronica Franco, the Venetian courtesan who in the sixteenth century with the renowned literary salon of Domenico Venier in Venice became above all a famous poet
Don Quixote de la Mancha, the Spanish novel describing the hero of the windmills. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's work was published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615
On February 2, 1922, James Joyce's Ulysses was published in Paris, a work that marked a decisive turning point in world literature, as well as the French Revolution in history - Here's what the Financial Times recently wrote
The Irish writer's masterpiece was published in Paris on February 2, 1922: from psychoanalysis to stream of consciousness, that's why Ulysses was a revolutionary novel
Spain, Latin America, New York, Paris to his beloved Sicily), by Ferdinando Scianna
The exhibition Between Dante and Shakespeare: the myth of Verona will start on 11 June at the Achille Forti Modern Art Gallery. Made by the Municipality of Verona with the patronage and contribution of the National Committee for the celebration of the 700th anniversary…
“Lisbon is destroyed and in Paris people dance”. this is Voltaire's bitter commentary written on November 2, 1755. It was the day after the terrifying Lisbon earthquake in which almost half of the population had lost their lives.
The historical essay by Vincenzo di Michelle tells of the barbaric killings of animals that took place in the two world wars - Over 100 animals were killed during the transport of goods and on the battlefields
On the occasion of the national day dedicated to Dante, whose 2021th anniversary of his death occurs in 700, we retrace the poet's relationship with the economy in a lesson by Professor Giovanni Cherubini
Entries for the "Città di Castello" Literary Award in the three categories: Fiction, Poetry and Non-Fiction for unpublished works - A high-profile project, open to writers of all ages, national and otherwise - The jury is…
An interesting editorial from the New York Times delves into yet another case of cancel culture: it concerns Dr. Seuss, author of children's books, including the famous Grinch. Here because.
The Audiobook Narrator presents "The fundamental things", by the Venetian writer and playwright Tiziano Scarpa (winner of the Strega Prize in 2009 with "Stabat Mater") - Synopsis and biography of the author.
The original idea of a literary bistro in the heart of Brianza: a format that features dishes inspired by pages of a writer's story. Now meetings scheduled from home with a box that includes a recipe and an author's book that converses with…
Born in 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, whose real name is Robert Zimmermann, he spent his childhood in Hibbing, a mining town about a hundred kilometers from the border with Canada. His father, an appliance dealer, gave the…
We have written in previous articles that the Coronavirus would like to deprive us of three fundamental aspects of relationships between individuals: hugs, kisses and shaking hands. Then, suddenly, looking around, we realized that there was a…
The event will begin at 11.00 on 23 April and will offer critical commentary interventions by some authors on the great works of literature and the reading of some significant passages from the great classics by the actors who have joined the…
The Chilean writer and activist, who had contracted the virus in Spain in February, died at the age of 70 - The memory of his political commitment at the time of Pinochet and his literary successes.
Resurrection of a book The 27th episode of the series by Italian best-selling authors is dedicated to the story of a resurrection. That of a book. The history of books is sometimes tortuous, almost like that of our lives, and in…
Walter Lazzarin has had two lives: one as a precarious teacher of History and Philosophy and one as a Writer on the Street, since 2015 he has been selling his works as a wandering writer, whether books or tautograms, FIRST Arte interviewed him
The 24th episode of the series of Italian best-selling authors features Gerolamo Rovetta as protagonist, an author of the late XNUMXth century whose memory has been almost completely lost, together with the not many who were active in those years. And the…
Portrait of the author who died in 1929, the year in which Commissioner Maigret appears and Moravia publishes Gli Indifferenti.
We are at the 23rd episode of the series of Italian best-selling authors dedicated to an author who will be able to say very little to many. We are talking about Anton Giulio Barrili, from Savona, a patriot, a Garibaldian and a writer of great popularity until his death…
A veritable atlas of dissent has recently been released online which examines two cultural areas: the Italian and French one, in the West, and the Slavic area in the East.
Vatican correspondent Franca Giansoldati presents her book at Maxxi - The former director of Repubblica Calabresi talks about her book "The morning after"
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the narrative debut of Commissioner Maigret, created by the Belgian author who wrote over 500 novels in his life, sold in 700 million copies.
In San Miguel Nepantla, 80 km from Mexico City, there is a monument dedicated to a woman who we can define as the first feminist of the New World. It is a bust made in 1951 by the sculptor Arias Méndeze dedicated to…
BESTSELLER OF THE PAST - Guido Milanesi, who was an officer in the Navy, was one of the most popular Italian writers in the first decades of the twentieth century and even came close to a Nobel - He joined fascism but not unconditionally
On October 13, 2016, the virtual changing of the guard among the Nobel Literature winners: Dario Fo dies at the age of 90 and, amid not a few controversies, the prestigious prize is awarded to Bob Dylan
BESTSELLER COLUMN - The story of the South African writer, who at the age of 86 continues to be one of the most popular worldwide.
Depressed for some time, on 27 August 69 years ago, the writer Cesare Pavese, one of the greatest intellectuals and men of letters of the first half of the last century, took his own life, as he wrote in his diary
The contribution of Franco D'Intino, editor (with Michael Caesar) of the first complete English translation of Leopardi's Zibaldone, published in the summer of 2013.
Goware proposes some reflections of the great American writer, who has sold half a billion copies of his books: "My best opening sentence? That of Precious Things".
The FIRST Arte column dedicated to the best-selling novels in the history of world literature and their incipits, which we propose here again, reaches its third episode.
The summer program of the Roman museum is underway between art, music, literature, architecture, cinema and science: on Monday evening the concert by the winner of Sanremo, then the exhibition by Maria Lai.
Kafka and Brod saw Jean Huber's Voltaire's Wake on October 13, 1910 at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris. In this painting, a domestic scene of the French thinker is portrayed in a rather indelicate and farcical way.
Dutch venue where anyone capable of doing it can get on stage and tell a story, events take place all year round from Tuesday to Sunday in what can fully be defined as one of the places of culture…
Once upon a time, there was a little girl brave enough to want to experience great fears. Because she, after growing up "in an old and creaky house, where every drawer could hide a mystery and every room was a shady cavern", she didn't…
We know, fiction is a lie. Invented stuff, stories that never happened, characters that never existed, constructs of imaginative minds that would like to live in minutely described parallel universes. There is even someone who has invented a language.
The writer presents his latest book, The Game, published by Einaudi - Appointment on Saturday 30 March at 18,30: free admission subject to availability.
After the parentheses of Oriana Fallaci and Umberto Eco, two contemporaries, we return to dealing with history with Edmondo De Amicis who is the protagonist of the 16th episode of our series on bestselling authors of the past. The Ligurian writer was…
The first Spanish institutional collection dedicated to post-war contemporary art "la Caixa" was founded in Barcelona in 1985 when the country emerged from a period of dictatorship, to foster dialogue between Spanish and international art. Now includes more…
Rousseau said that freedom ends and something much less positive begins when someone creates a fence and says “this is mine, don't enter or pay to enter”: and the concept of cultural appropriation does just that.
The Jewish intellectual was 79 years old: he died after a long illness - to give the news to his eldest daughter - He was in turn the son of two intellectuals: the father knew 16 languages, the mother 7.
For the series dedicated to the bestsellers of the past, FIRST Arte talks about Sveva Casati Modigliani, a very successful writer in the genre of romance fiction: 80 novels, 12 million copies.
Today the romance novel is very popular. Some recent data on fiction trends in the United States, the leading book publishing country, show that the share (by both titles and sell-outs) of the romance novel in adult fiction is 40,63%,…
The author's new book entitled Behind the scenes - Writings and reviews was presented during the national fair of small and medium-sized publishing at the La Nuvola congress center in Rome
For the series of "Bestsellers of the past" it is time to make a foray into the contemporary world to deal with an English writer who has relaunched a genre that had ended up in the attic: the historical novel.
The review of the great national and international exhibitions and the ninth episode of the bestsellers of the past, this time dedicated to a multifaceted personality like that of Lucio D'Ambra, are the flagship services of FIRST Arte this weekend.
In this second appointment with the "Sunday Tale", we spy - thanks to the Neapolitan writer Antonella Ossorio - the family life of the first Italian Nobel Prize winner: Giosuè Carducci.
Starting today on FIRST Arte a new column, the "Sunday Tale", which hosts unpublished texts thanks to an editorial collaboration with the literary agency Thesis and the Tuscan start-up goWare - "Time to fly" by the English poet Ruth…
For this appointment with the bestsellers of the past we present the first writer of the series, Carolina Invernizio. We know that writing is one of the fields in which female talent and specificity are powerfully expressed. In all the statistics on…
Inaugurated at the Gallerie d'Italia in Piazza Scala, the museum headquarters of Intesa Sanpaolo in Milan, a major exhibition dedicated to the art of Romanticism with 200 works by Italian and foreign artists, from Hayez to Corot, from Turner to Molteni - 26 October…
From 24 to 28 October, the Lake of Lugano, a meeting place for all lovers of literature, will host the PiazzaParola literary review which this year has as its protagonist the passionate bookworm Emma Bovary, the protagonist of the most famous novel…
According to Darley, the aesthetic principles of entertainment culture, yesterday as today, are: spectacularity and realism. “The “panorama” genre, due to the type of images created and the nature of its spectacularism, responded above all to the aesthetic principle of realism. In fact, this…
After Guido da Verona, we publish the second article by Michele Giocondi and Mario Mancini in the series of reports on the great Italian bestselling writers of the past.
Today, July 30, the literary world celebrates the bicentenary of the birth of English author Emily Brontë. Born on 30 July in Thornton, Yorkshire, Wuthering Heights, Brontë's only novel, was published a year before her untimely death in 1848.
Here are some titles by the most popular novelist of our country from the XNUMXs to the XNUMXs. A name that probably won't say anything in our times, but that has inflamed the imagination and dreams of our…
The American poet Ezra Pound, tireless pen, adventurer and full of passions of the twentieth century is the protagonist of the new book by Andrea Mirabile, published by the Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki
After 15 years a woman returns to win the most prestigious Italian literary prize, this time it's Helena Janeczek's turn with The Girl with the Leica. On the podium Marco Balzano with "I'm staying here" and Petrignani with "La corsara. Portrait of Natalia…
The event, now in its 17th edition, is scheduled from 4 to 7 July in the well-known Apulian town.
In the guise of Diana "Goddess of the hunt" the Olschki publishing house presents a new and fascinating volume entitled "The myth of Diana in the culture of the Courts".
The world of literature says goodbye to Philip Roth, one of the greatest contemporary writers. The American author, eternal Nobel Prize winner, died at the age of 85 in a New York hospital due to heart failure. The news…
Sexual harassment scandals engulf the Grand Prix. Even the Nobel Prize for Literature fell on the banana peel of abuse and groping a few hours after the expulsion of two greats, director and actor,…
Sports books… these work! The growing importance - and quality - of sports literature in Europe and in the world - Football fever but not only - More and more biographies and autographs of sports champions
On April 23, 1616, the greatest playwright of Western culture died - International events and initiatives scheduled today. The world celebrates William Shakespeare.
Literature is often a very precious mine for financial education and the brilliant essay "The wealth of emotions. Economy and Finance in the masterpieces of reading" written by Giandomenico Scarpelli (manager of the Bank of Italy) and published by Carocci is the…
Journalists, writers, poets: women who have chosen the "active" side of writing. A tribute to a woman who has been able to denounce the female condition through thought and the great ability to write, her only passion.
