{"id":13322,"date":"2021-10-27T12:01:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T09:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/?p=13322"},"modified":"2021-10-27T12:01:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T09:01:10","slug":"3-italian-books-that-you-should-read-episode-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/3-italian-books-that-you-should-read-episode-2\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Italian books that you should read &#8211; episode 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>3 Italian books that you should read &#8211; episode 2\u00a0<\/strong>is part of a series. If you want to read the previous articles, you can check them down below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/5-italian-books-that-you-should-read-part-1\/?preview_id=12976&amp;preview_nonce=766ae2944b&amp;_thumbnail_id=12980&amp;preview=true\"><strong>3 Italian books that you should read &#8211; episode 1\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>1. The Strange Island of <em>Stranalandia<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13327 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/island-cliffs-rocks-water-ocean-sea.jpg\" alt=\"island\" width=\"910\" height=\"683\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/island-cliffs-rocks-water-ocean-sea.jpg 910w, https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/island-cliffs-rocks-water-ocean-sea-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/island-cliffs-rocks-water-ocean-sea-768x576.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 910px) 100vw, 910px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 910px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 910\/683;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stranalandia <\/strong><\/em>is one of\u00a0 the many books of <strong>Stefano Benni<\/strong>, that published it in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly to his other works it&#8217;s a <strong>satyrical book<\/strong>. In brief, when two scientists get stranded on an island because of the sinking of their ship, they start documenting the <strong>strange animals<\/strong> and the culture of an <strong>indigenous population<\/strong> that live in it.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best books to enjoy discovering a <strong>new world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>2. Books about losing your chances:\u00a0<em>Il fu Mattia Pascal<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13331 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/crosses-memorial-old-cemetery-tombstone.jpg\" alt=\"graves\" width=\"910\" height=\"710\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/crosses-memorial-old-cemetery-tombstone.jpg 910w, https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/crosses-memorial-old-cemetery-tombstone-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/crosses-memorial-old-cemetery-tombstone-768x599.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 910px) 100vw, 910px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 910px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 910\/710;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pirandello\u00a0<\/strong>initially published\u00a0<strong><em>Il fu Mattia Pascal\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>in 1904 in episodes for a journal. Later that year it was released as a volume.<\/p>\n<p>After being involved in an <strong>entanglement<\/strong> Mattia Pascal is forced to marry a woman that doesn&#8217;t love him. Afterwards his enfant daughters and his mother pass away, leaving him alone with his spouse and her mother.<\/p>\n<p>At this point Mattia decides to leave his family and his job as librarian to escape to America, in order to start a new life. He will never get there but his adventures will make him rich and once again loved.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, a believed dead Mattia goes back to his small town. His wife married again and he&#8217;s got a grave in the cemetery that he visits often. His <strong>choices<\/strong> and his frequent<strong> running away<\/strong> brought him back to the <strong>library<\/strong> where he used to work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>3. Books about the dead:\u00a0<em>Il Giorno del Giudizio<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13338 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/mountain-village-buildings-houses.jpg\" alt=\"mountain village\" width=\"910\" height=\"439\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/mountain-village-buildings-houses.jpg 910w, https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/mountain-village-buildings-houses-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/mountain-village-buildings-houses-768x370.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 910px) 100vw, 910px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 910px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 910\/439;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Salvatore Satta\u00a0<\/strong>never released\u00a0<em><strong>Il Giorno del Giudizio<\/strong><\/em><em>. <\/em>In fact it was published posthumous in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>In the book a narrator voice, that we could identify as Satta himself, narrates the story of Nuoro, a Sardinian city in the mountains, while talking about the people buried in its cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>The stories about the dead mingle with those of the men and women that live in the small town, and give us a picture of this comunity.<\/p>\n<p>We could consider this book &#8220;the italian Spoon River&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Resources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I meravigliosi animali di Stranalandia, last consultation 27\/10\/21:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_meravigliosi_animali_di_Stranalandia\">https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_meravigliosi_animali_di_Stranalandia<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Il fu Mattia Pascal, last consultation 27\/10\/21:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Il_fu_Mattia_Pascal\">https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Il_fu_Mattia_Pascal<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Il giorno del giudizio (Salvatore Satta), last consultation 27\/10\/21:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Il_giorno_del_giudizio_(Salvatore_Satta)\">https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Il_giorno_del_giudizio_(Salvatore_Satta)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Italian books that you should read &#8211; episode 2\u00a0is part of a series. If you want to read the previous articles, you can check them down below: 3 Italian books that you should read &#8211; episode 1\u00a0 &nbsp; 1. The Strange Island of Stranalandia &nbsp; &nbsp; Stranalandia is one of\u00a0 the many books of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":13325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,289],"tags":[841,2755,2757,2751,2713,2754,2756,2753,2752],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-13322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-literature","tag-books","tag-il-fu-mattia-pascal","tag-il-giorno-del-giudizio","tag-italian-books","tag-italian-literature","tag-luigi-pirandello","tag-salvatore-satta","tag-stefano-benni","tag-stranalandia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13322"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13345,"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13322\/revisions\/13345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13322"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}