Quando vuoi fare un regalo e non hai un'idea precisa di cosa regalare, bisognerebbe donare un libro. Non c'è bisogno di una ricorrenza specifica: è sempre bello donare un libro. Veicola sempre un messaggio, un'idea, un sogno. Peccato che ogni volta che regalo un libro, il più delle volte la gente si incazzi...

If you want to make a gift and you have no idea about what to buy, well donating a book it's always a good choice. It's no necessary to wait for a specific occasion: it's always something good. A book materializes messages, ideas, dreams. Yet anytime I give a book as a gift in the majority of cases, people tend to get angry...

lunedì 30 marzo 2009

J. Littell: "Les Bienveillantes"


This book has been at the core of great interest from the critics above all about the description of the terrible events of the Shoah according to the Nazis' point of view rather than the victims'.

I have read this book following these discussions and observations but I have got to say that all this has created in me great expectations many of which have been rather frustrated.

In my opinion, this book is too long (more than 900 pages in the italian version) and often the author has pointed out too many demonstrations of phylosophical and literature erudition which maybe weigh down the reading. The first part and the conclusion are impressing and very well written but I think that the central part of the book is too slow.

Surely this is a very interesting book capable to offer many reflection opportunities; but the excessive length and cultural ostentation may hide those other positive interesting aspects of the book.

At the moment I not sure yet if I like this book or not...
Surely I have worked hard to read it till the end...

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