100 challenge_Roberta Gattel

Silences, Emily Dickinson, 1860 - 1865   When I think of Emily Dickinson, I think of her life inside a room; I think of daylight switching on and off on...

Iliad or the poem of strength, Simone Weil, 1939 - 1940   Often, when you have experienced a series of difficult situations, and yet another disappointment comes, you wonder, "Why?"...

Two in one flesh, Lucetta Scaraffia e Margherita Pelaja, 2008   I don't believe in God. My family baptized me joyfully, and with the same pleasure, I opted out by...

Zong!, Marlene Nourbese Philip, 2008   I believe that what makes Spoken Word popular in most civil rights movements is the fact that it is much more effective than a...

Private Renaissance, Maria Bellonci, 1985   Any Italian school book mentions the Strega Prize, one of the most important Italian literary competitions in the last fifty years. What is rarely...

The garden party, Katherine Mansfield, 1922   What interested me in Katherine Mansfield was a fact reported in her biography: at the end of 1914, in her mid-twenties, she had...