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Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Random notes I took shortly after reading the book. The Impossible Cool. Truman Capote. Audrey Hepburn, beyond adjectives. Structure Capote has the best ear for dialogue since maybe Oscar Wilde, and a talent for the off-hand aphorism to match Andy Warhol’s. And please note the cleverness in picking my points of reference. Breakfast at Tiffany’s […]

Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

Ginsberg reading his poems, courtesy of the gorgeous UbuWeb. Scroll down to October 25, 1956 and May 4, 1995. I read the poem in preparation for the movie, I confess. Obviously I had already come across selections (everybody has) but never actually read it top to bottom (many haven’t). Allen Ginsberg was Walt Whitman reincarnated, […]

Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

“The logical extension of business is murder”. In an April day of the year 2000, 28-year-old multibillionaire finance whiz Eric Packer gets up from a sleepless night. He watches the day dawn over Manhattan, then crosses the rooms of his triplex (which he paid, as we will learn, $ 104 mln) and summons his stretch […]

Liu Yichang, Un incontro

Hong Kong Blues. Liu Yichang, nome d’arte di Lau Tongyi, 92enne romanziere nativo di Shanghai e residente a Hong Kong, deve la fama internazionale a quest’unico racconto, cui è ispirato In the Mood for Love (2000) di Wong Kar-wai. Da un altro romanzo di Liu Yichang, Il bevitore, è tratto il film seguente del regista, […]

Ivica Djikić, Cirkus Columbia

Romanzo corale sugli anni ’90 della comunità croata di Mostar, in Erzegovina. La vita paesana scorre indolente, rivelando bonarietà e piccoli battibecchi ma anche acredini, vigliaccherie, ingiustizie. Si susseguono, non sempre in ordine cronologico, vari episodi della vita degli abitanti del borgo. Nel corso degli anni vediamo tornare gli stessi personaggi, cresciuti e ben, o […]