In the last decades, many studies have proliferated on the different ways in which a specific modality of consumer society, characterized by an unbridled acceleration of the rhythms of production and work, affects the lives ...

The analysis presented in this article concerns one of the newest philosophical novels of Aldo Nove, entitled “Il professore di Viggiù” (2018). In the book the author presents an invented interview with mysterious person, ...

The paper aims to describe and analyze the specific loneliness of Walter Ferranini, the protagonist of “Il comunista”, by Guido Morselli (1976). Even though constantly searching for success and praise – as probably it was ...

The review “Légitime Défense”, created by a group of Martinican students in Paris, is often presented as a manifesto, more political than literary, without substantial consequences. However, it has induced responses and ...

In “L’Apocalypse de 2030”, “Chroniques de la fin du monde” and “La Fin des temps”, three novels by French, American and Japanese authors respectively, the novelists try to hold up a mirror to the readers of our world that ...

French writer Albert Robida, renowned for his futuristic works of fiction written in a bitter-sweet tone, somehow broke away from his usual inspiration in “The Clock of the Centuries” (published in 1902), as electric life ...

On January 7th 2015, Philippe Lançon, a journalist at “Libération” and at “Charlie Hebdo” attends the newspaper’s premises, when the islamist terrorists attack. The killers’bullets tear his jaws off, severely injure his ...

In this article, the author studies the dramas which, while exposing the absurdity of war, express an apocalyptic vision of humanity doomed to its destruction. Whether it is Reinhard Goering’s “Sea battle” or Arrabal’s ...

In 1946, only a year after the World War II, Jean Giono, who became famous in the years 1929-1939 as a writer describing the human’s struggle with nature, writes “A King Alone” (“Un roi sans divertissement”), a novel which ...

This article presents a hybrid work by Mme de Murat, “Le Journal pour Mlle de Menou”, written between 1708 and 1709 in the château de Loches where the countess was exiled. Mme de Murat copes with the oppression of royal ...