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Piccola guida tascabile ai luoghi da non frequentare in letteratura
2019
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Paradisi tropicali, hotel di lusso e pittoreschi sentieri di campagna: nulla di più evocativo e rilassante, no? Sbagliato, perché quando la scenografica stradina costeggia un camposanto o ci si vede costretti a fare i conti con una casa dalla quale sembra impossibile uscire, allora trovare un attimo di relax diventa l'ultimo dei problemi. Se con una linea si collegassero tutti i luoghi nominati in questa "Piccola guida", oltre a macinare chilometri di grafite probabilmente si darebbe vita a un disegno dalle fattezze tremende e spaventose. Un tour letterario di luoghi nefasti, oscuri, sconvolgenti, spesso nascosti dietro facciate insospettabili o patine oniriche. Non importa che si tratti di antichi nidi di perfidia, tenuti in piedi dalle influenze malvagie delle entità che li abitano o di luoghi di passaggio che, impregnati di sofferenza e angustia, si fanno tramite di turbamenti e presagi: ciò che fa sì che un posto ci rimanga nel cuore (o ci perseguiti come un incubo - ma perché impelagarsi in sottigliezze?) è come esso ci ha fatto sentire. Contiene: La casa del giudice, Bram Stoker; La camera ammobiliata, O. Henry; Il paese blu, Marcel Schwob; C'era un uomo che viveva presso un cimitero, Montague Rhodes James; I prigionieri di Longjumeau, Léon Bloy; Sibilo, Gustav Meyrink; La casa vuota, Algernon Blackwood; L'addormentatrice, Guy de Maupassant; La stanza dell'incubo, Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Marcel Schwob
Marcel Schwob
Author · 14 books
Marcel Schwob (1867-1905) was one of the key symbolist writers, standing in French literature alongside such names as Stephane Mallarme, Octave Mirbeau, Andre Gide, Leon Bloy, Jules Renard, Remy de Gourmont, and Alfred Jarry. His best-known works are Double Heart (1891), The King In The Gold Mask (1892), and Imaginary Lives (1896).
O. Henry
O. Henry
Author · 139 books

Such volumes as Cabbages and Kings (1904) and The Four Million (1906) collect short stories, noted for their often surprising endings, of American writer William Sydney Porter, who used the pen name O. Henry. His biography shows where he found inspiration for his characters. His era produced their voices and his language. Mother of three-year-old Porter died from tuberculosis. He left school at fifteen years of age and worked for five years in drugstore of his uncle and then for two years at a Texas sheep ranch. In 1884, he went to Austin, where he worked in a real estate office and a church choir and spent four years as a draftsman in the general land office. His wife and firstborn died, but daughter Margaret survived him. He failed to establish a small humorous weekly and afterward worked in poorly-run bank. When its accounts balanced not, people blamed and fired him. In Houston, he worked for a few years until, ordered to stand trial for embezzlement, he fled to New Orleans and thence Honduras. Two years later, he returned on account of illness of his wife. Apprehended, Porter served a few months more than three years in a penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio. During his incarceration, he composed ten short stories, including A Blackjack Bargainer , The Enchanted Kiss , and The Duplicity of Hargraves . In 1899, McClure's published Whistling Dick's Christmas Story and Georgia's Ruling . In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he sent manuscripts to New York editors. In the spring of 1902, Ainslee's Magazine offered him a regular income if he moved to New York. In less than eight years, he became a bestselling author of collections of short stories. Cabbages and Kings came first in 1904 The Four Million, and The Trimmed Lamp and Heart of the West followed in 1907, and The Voice of the City in 1908, Roads of Destiny and Options in 1909, Strictly Business and Whirligigs in 1910 followed. Posthumously published collections include The Gentle Grafter about the swindler, Jeff Peters; Rolling Stones , Waifs and Strays , and in 1936, unsigned stories, followed. People rewarded other persons financially more. A Retrieved Reformation about the safe-cracker Jimmy Valentine got $250; six years later, $500 for dramatic rights, which gave over $100,000 royalties for playwright Paul Armstrong. Many stories have been made into films.

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