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Post by account_disabled on Dec 14, 2023 4:10:58 GMT
First report of interesting books, at least for my tastes, of the new year. All four are quite different. These are two novels, a collection of essays and an anthology of short stories. Genres range from crime fiction to science fiction to historical fiction. Topics that I like and would like to purchase – and read – all four books mentioned soon. We will be talking about one again in the blog soon. Cops and Robbers by Luca Pagnini Cops and robbersLuca Pagnini approaches narrative with fifteen stories that are not easy to define. They're not detective stories, they're not noir, they're not pulp. Or maybe I am all of this. They are certainly stories. Beautiful stories. Compelling, well characterized also thanks to the field experience that the author has been carrying on for two decades. Pagnini is a multifaceted author capable of giving color to the narrative thanks to an absolutely above-average property of language. We move from the internal psychological collapse to the actual investigation, sliding through his Phone Number Data Florence which is also present in the language. Cops and robbers La Gru Editions 248 pages December 2012 Writings on medieval thought by Umberto Eco Writings on medieval thoughtThis volume presents writings which have all already been published but which the author has brought together to testify to his continuous attention to philosophy, aesthetics and medieval semiotics, since the beginning of his historiographical interests during his university years.  It thus brings together research on medieval aesthetics and in particular that of Thomas Aquinas, semantic studies on the arbor porphyriana and on the medieval fortune of the Aristotelian notion of metaphor, various explorations on animal language, on falsification, on recycling techniques in 'Middle Age, on the texts of Beato di Liebana and apocalyptic literature, on Dante, on Llull and Lullism, on modern interpretations of Thomist aesthetics, including Joyce's youthful texts. A second section collects writings that are less academically demanding but which nevertheless can also provide the non-specialist reader with ideas on medieval thought and its various returns in modern times, with reflections on embryos according to Thomas, the aesthetics of light in Dante's paradise, the Million of Marco Polo, the Irish miniature and that of the late Middle Ages, visually documented in a succinct collection of images. While retaining their original nature to these writings, which cover a period of sixty years, the author has standardized them from a bibliographical and editorial point of view, eliminating, although not entirely, some repetitions and repetitions. |
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