New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

literary studies
Il rigogolo del Vaticano
by Bruno Bartoloni
Having become an orphan after a Nazi patrolling, the small Trof has to live alone
and illegally in the many rooms of the apostolic palaces in the Vatican and underground
in an unknown and inaccessible maze of tunnels and secret passages. For
prelates, cardinals and even the Pope, the impertinent Trof becomes a disturbing
presence, a goblin with whom sooner or later it is necessary to come to terms.
Found and sent to a seminary, he comes to know his mother was a Jew lost to
the Holocaust. He immediately starts the search to find her, from the Dolomites
to Provence, and in Spain from the Way of St. James to the magical plateau of the
Sierra de Guara. Strange events lead him back to the Vatican, where he is involved
in intrigues of power alongside the pontiff. He discovers the truth about the tragic
death of his family; all his doubts disappear and Trof comes to know that his life is
deeply entwined with the Pope’s and to the Church.
336p, paperback, 9788859604709, $20.00(s), Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008,
Selezione Narrativa Polistampa 34.
Storie del Premio Viareggio
by Francesca Romana de’Angelis
and Gabriella Sobrino
Gabriella Sobrino served for forty years
as secretary for the Premio Viareggio, “the
most important cultural event of the Italian
summer.” In this volume, she narrates not
only numerous stories about the festival’s
authors and books, but also the behindthe-scenes
sentiments and resentments,
expectations and deceptions. Italian text.
398p, b/w illus, paperback, 9788856400151, $29.50(s), Edizioni Polistampa,
December 2008, Cronaca e storia 1.
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Oriana Fallaci
I’ll Die Standing on My Feet
by Riccardo Nencini
No other writer or journalist from the 20th century was able to raise debates like Oriana
Fallaci. Her books, her news reports and her invectives made her one of the top protagonists
of literature and journalism. Nencini, a friend of hers, reports the entire day
they spent together shortly before her death, tackling the most burning topics such as
the Western Crisis, Terrorism, and European Identity. With this book, Nencini shows us a
new Fallaci, a woman eaten up by illness but still defiant and free of spirit.
80p, paperback, 9788859604808, $9.95, Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008,
Libro verità 11.
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Lettere a Pasolini (1954–1975)
by Paolo Volponi,
edited by Daniele Fioretti
Paolo Volponi’s correspondence with Pier
Paolo Pasolini between 1954 and 1975 retraces
the writer’s own poetic development
in which Pasolini’s influence is tangible.
Pasolini was a central figure in Volponi's life,
a friend and master to whom he submitted his poetic texts for suggestions and
advice. Volponi’s letters to Pasolini bear witness to the authors’ mutual intellectual
and human affinity, their profound friendship and community of opinions on politics
and society that only the death of Pasolini could interrupt. Italian text.
216p, paperback, 9788859605102, $29.50(s), Edizioni Polistampa, December 2009,
Il Diaspro 12.
Spiritualità e storia nell’opera
di Rodolfo Doni
by Franco Zangrilli
Proceedings from the conference on spirituality
and story in the works of Rodolfo Doni,
considered the preeminent Catholic Italian
writer of our times. In addition to religious
and theological themes, Doni touches on the
events of everyday life, creating a gallery of
characters that express the crises of contemporary
society. Italian text.
272p, paperback, 9788856400182, $34.00(s), Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008,
Italianistica nel mondo 1.
The David Brown Book Company – Fall 2009