Vladimir Nabokov è considerato uno degli gli autori più innovativi di sempre e ha contribuito significativamente alla letteratura moderna, sia pubblicando romanzi scandalistici come Lolita, sia usando uno stile narrativo brillante dovuto a un’impeccabile padronanza del lessico. Avendo riletto di recente Lolita, mi sono appuntato le parole di cui non conoscevo il significato, o di cui non ho saputo dare una definizione precisa, e le ho incluse qui sotto.| Elia Scotto
I found a new literary genre with which I feel particularly aligned: biographies of writers written by other writers. By calling it “new,” I don’t mean it’s an emerging trend, but rather a type of novel whose evocative power I had never experienced before. I started with Philip Dick’s science fiction when I read the book about him by Emmanuel Carrère, which I liked so much that it made me passionate about both writers. Now, thanks to Michel Houellebecq’s biography of H. P. Lovecr...| Elia Scotto
As a first movie on the blog I decided to review perhaps my all-time favorite title: Primer, the 2004 debut film by Shane Carruth. It’s a psychological science-fiction film in which the two protagonists find themselves confronting the ability to travel through time.| Elia Scotto
An alien family dealing with the atomic bomb.| www.scotto.me