Italian reading challenge

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My friend dan on twitter  gave me the eyes up on this challenge by book after book blog .Its a year long Italian reading challenge .The Challenge is to read 12 books over 2011 set in Italy or by Italian writers .I m going to do the later have a number of books lined up for January for a week of Italian reading .Want try and read 12 different writers from Italy over next year . to find out more look here

So I ve Calvino ,Eco ,Maurnsig ,Buzzati ,Sciascia and want to finally get to the collectiive writing project Luther Blisset and the novel Q which I got halfway through years ago but had to give book back to a friend .

WHATS YOUR FAVOURITE ITALIAN NOVEL ?


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22 thoughts on “Italian reading challenge”

    1. Yes buzzati worth trying loved his graphic novel ,his most famous novel tartar steppes which is what I m planning to read seems so different to the other book ,all the best stu

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  4. Looking forward to your reviews, Stu, although I’d definitely appreciate the challenge more if it were all Italian writers (as you’re planning on doing) rather than also containing books only “set in Italy.” I’m not familiar with the third author you mention, but all the rest are or sound great. P.S. Happy holidays to you and your family–off to listen to Wire’s Pink Flag, which I “self-gifted” to myself earlier today after never owning it somehow for all these years!

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  7. One of the best set in Italy books I read, although written by a Brit, was ‘Saving Caravaggio’ by Neil Griffiths about an art cop on the trail of an unknown Caravaggio painting. I have a Sciascia (Day of the Owl) on my bedside pile for reading soon, and ‘That awful mess on the via Merulana’ by Carlo Emilio Gadda to read too. I love Italian crime fic – Camilleri’s Montalbano books are great fun too.

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  8. My favourite Italian writers are Bassani, Tabucchi and Pavese. I recently reviewed Niccolò Ammanti, great as well. I’m organizing a Literature and War read along and chose two Italian writers for it, Primo Levi and Elsa Morante, maybe you would like to join too? I’ll post the list on Monday.

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  10. Most definitely NOT ‘The Betrothed’ by Manzoni, perhaps the dullest of all Italian writing. Up there must be Lampedusa’s ‘The Leopard’ Eco’s ‘The name of the Rose, Calvino’s ‘If on a Winter’s Night, Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’ and Carlo Collodi’s ‘Pinocchio’ for starters.

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  11. My favorite Italian authors are Calvino and di Lampdusa. I also recommend The Plague Sower by Bufalino. I would love to join you for this challenge. I’m not sure I can read 12 books, 3 or 4 is more doable for me. Thanks Stu.

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