Volponi paolo (587 risultati)

Hardback. Condizione: Good. A vivid and unforgettable novelistic portrait of rural Italy, exploring the nature of reality and the human condition.   A small-time farmer living in central Italy in the 1960s is the keeper of a great truth: that people are machines built by other beings who are machines themselves. Our true destiny is to build ever better machines so that society can become a techno-utopia in which friendship can be established among all people on earth. These ideas bring him into conflict with everyone, especially his wife, against whom he is accused of ill-treatment. His quest takes him to Rome, where he presents his truth, hoping it will bring him worldwide recognition. Behind his poetical reveries and unfathomable scientific notions lies the disturbing fragility of a lone, paranoid, and deluded man in conflict with everyone, including himself.   Paolo Volponi?s unique novel The World Machine examines the relationship between rural life and the modern city, as well as the subversive idealism of a society still firmly anchored in the past, dominated by the Church, and unable to grasp the need for change.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. A vivid and unforgettable novelistic portrait of rural Italy, exploring the nature of reality and the human condition.   A small-time farmer living in central Italy in the 1960s is the keeper of a great truth: that people are machines built by other beings who are machines themselves. Our true destiny is to build ever better machines so that society can become a techno-utopia in which friendship can be established among all people on earth. These ideas bring him into conflict with everyone, especially his wife, against whom he is accused of ill-treatment. His quest takes him to Rome, where he presents his truth, hoping it will bring him worldwide recognition. Behind his poetical reveries and unfathomable scientific notions lies the disturbing fragility of a lone, paranoid, and deluded man in conflict with everyone, including himself.   Paolo Volponi?s unique novel The World Machine examines the relationship between rural life and the modern city, as well as the subversive idealism of a society still firmly anchored in the past, dominated by the Church, and unable to grasp the need for change.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Clean cover. Unmarked clean pages.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. HARDCOVER Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized.

PAPERBACK. Condizione: Good. 093497733X Some underlining. Light cover wear. Book is in decent shape.

Paperback. First Ed USA, First Printing indicated. First Ed USA, First Printing indicated. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of very light use; just a hint of wear to extremities; mild rubbing; very faint crease at backstrip; binding shows very slight spine lean, but remains perfectly secure; text clean. Remains close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 302pp. Translated and with an Introduction by Peter N. Pedroni. Trade Paperback. Following the literary conceit of Paolo Volponi, this book should be read as a three act play. The first act concerns Count Oddino , his two aunts and his paramour Dirce. The second act concerns the Spanish anachist, Vives and her long time lover Gaspare Subissoni. The third act concerns the Iago-like chauffeur-taxi driver Giocino Giocondini and his interplay with the other characters. This is not to imply that there are three sections chronologically arranged since this is a story of worlds which are dying if not already dead. In brief, the count is trying to reconcile his and his family's past with the new Italy, remember Italy was a republic at the time this book was written. Vive and Subissoni are attempting to ignite the Spanish Republican flame in the Italy of the 1960's. Giocondini is trying to figure out how to play the angles for his own aggrandizement.The count must come of age and find a spouse. His aunts Marizia and Clelia worry about the fate of the family and the world as it is developing in Milan. Dirce is an almost mystic figure that augurs the coming changes and the perceptions of the other characters. The reader will be pleasantly surprised at how well-developed and interesting all these characters are.Needless to say, Volponi's savage wit turns these human stories into a brilliant commentary on how history is perceived and the state of politics at the time. His use of comedy is totally unexpected and skillfully deployed, e.g. the count shows that his is taking over in his own right by locking his aunt's in a closet at one point. Also who would expect an Italian writer have one of his characters say, "He had always been distrustful of novels and always hated the opera as the highest expression of national vulgarity." Opera is a "vulgar corruption of the purity of music of other times-a consumer product emblematic of the quality of national unification." How could one not laugh along with the writer? The entire is rapped around with with an atmosphere of fog and snow as these characters carry on, not realizing that their pasts no longer exist and sadly we sympathize with their plight. If there are harbingers of the future, it is the references to the ubiquitous TV's, the birds, and the enigmatic Dirce who seems to be the most able to cope with the future by accepting it if not understanding it. She, the least probable character is the catalyst of much of the action and I feel is the voice of Volponi. All in all a masterpiece which ranks with some of the great masterpieces of contemporary literature. …

hardcover. Condizione: Good. HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Condizione: New. pp. 288.

Softcover. Italica Press, 1995, paperback, translation copyright 1995, Near Fine, 302 pages, FICTION ITALIAN FICTION; A8206.

Condizione: New. pp. 288.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. pp. 288.

kart. Condizione: Gut. 225 Seiten. Das gebrauchte Taschenbuch ist gut erhalten. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 220.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: Fair. Acceptable condition. Good dust jacket. Former Library book. Dust jacket price clipped. (Italy, Fiction) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

Condizione: Fair. Acceptable condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Former Library book. (Literature, Fiction, Drama) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included. …

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Stiff unmarked book in barely rubbed covers.; 5.5 X 0.81 X 8.5 inches; 322 pages.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. ISBN:9780857425393,288pp.

Condizione: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Condizione: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Hardback. Condizione: New. Second edition. As a boy growing up in rural Italy in the 1930s, Damin is experiencing the first stirrings of adolescence when he accidentally sees his mother having sex with the local Fascist commandant. His pain, anger, and confusion are uncomfortably intertwined with a compulsion to watch them, which becomes an obsession. Isolating himself from anyone who might help him understand what he's feeling, he channels his fury into his javelin, getting better and better until he is a local champion. But his success is fleeting, as wholly confused and caught up in his own anger, he ends up betraying and humiliating his friends. The Javelin Thrower is the story of an erotic education turned tragic, poisoned by the darkness running through Mussolini's Italy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. ISBN:9781803093765,312pp.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

HRD. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. (1st ptg.) Slightly smaller book, yellow cloth with small red embossed design at top front right near tip, black and red lettering very fine on front and spine, black inside covers and adjacent end papers, 232 heavy lightly browned pages. DJ front black glossy background, no title or author on front, praise from Alberto Moravia at bottom front, white spine and back lightly browned. DJ has slight wear to bottom front tip, very tiny tear with crease at top front edge nearer spine, light wear to bottom front edge, thin 1/2" tear at front spine indentation, microtears and micronicks at spine top and bottom edges, two very tiny tear at top back edge, 1/4" tear and microtear with crease at bottom at bottom back edge. Near Good DJ/Very Good Book. …