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| + | I have a long standing fascination with the history, mythology and complexity of the ideologies of the radical right. I see it as an exceptional window on the irrational, identitarist and primeval components of human culture, and as a cultural phenomenon which hasn't been studied with the due attention so far. | ||
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| + | * Domenico Di Tullio, ''Centri sociali di Destra'' | ||
* Nicola Rao, ''La fiamma e la celtica'' | * Nicola Rao, ''La fiamma e la celtica'' | ||
| + | * Ugo Maria Tassinari, ''Fascisterie'' / ''Naufraghi'' | ||
==Comics== | ==Comics== | ||
Revision as of 09:34, 31 October 2010
This is a list of my favourite books, in constant progress, in no particular order.
Contents
Novels
- Dante Alighieri . Divine Comedy
- Jorge Luis Borges , Ficciones / The Aleph / A Universal History of Infamy
- Robert Musil , The Man Without Qualities
- Gustave Flaubert , Madame Bovary
- Jonathan Littell , The Kindly Ones
- Franz Kafka , The Trial / all short novels
- Hermann Melville , Moby Dick
- Jose Saramago , Baltasar and Blimunda
- Vladimir Nabokov , Lolita
- Giovanni Verga , I Malavoglia
- Predrag Matvejević , Breviario Mediterraneo
- Umberto Eco , Foucault's Pendulum
Science fiction
- Arthur C. Clarke , Rendezvous with Rama / Childhood's End / The city and the stars
- Ray Bradbury , Martian Chronicles
- Clifford D. Simak , City
- Isaac Asimov , The Gods Themselves
- George Orwell , 1984
- Olaf Stapledon , Last and First Men
Poetry
- Eugenio Montale , Le Occasioni / Ossi di seppia
- Milo de Angelis
- Emily Dickinson
- Charles Bukowski
- Fernando Pessoa
Non fiction
Science
- Richard Dawkins , pretty much everything
- Oliver Sacks , The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
- John D. Barrow , The World within the World / Theories of Everything / Pi in the Sky
- Douglas Hofstadter , Goedel, Escher, Bach
- Peter Woit , Not even wrong
Philosophy
- Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Emile Cioran , pretty much everything
- Peter Singer , Practical Ethics
Politics/History
Radical right
I have a long standing fascination with the history, mythology and complexity of the ideologies of the radical right. I see it as an exceptional window on the irrational, identitarist and primeval components of human culture, and as a cultural phenomenon which hasn't been studied with the due attention so far.
- Domenico Di Tullio, Centri sociali di Destra
- Nicola Rao, La fiamma e la celtica
- Ugo Maria Tassinari, Fascisterie / Naufraghi
Comics
- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons , Watchmen
- Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon , Preacher
- Randall Munroe , xkcd
- David Malki, Wondermark
- Tove Jansson , Moomin
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