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Vincenzo Has Died, Michael C. Vocino
Vincenzo Has Died, Michael C. Vocino
michael c vocino
Short story of life and a death in a Southern Italian town.
Literature Is Language: An Interview With Amara Lakhous, Claudia Esposito
Literature Is Language: An Interview With Amara Lakhous, Claudia Esposito
Claudia Esposito
Amara Lakhous, born and raised in Algeria, has had a significant impact on the changing landscape of contemporary Italian letters and cultural production. He is the author of three novels, all of which he has written in both Arabic and Italian. His best known work is the much‐acclaimed Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a piazza Vittorio (2006)/Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (2008), now translated into numerous languages, including French, German and Dutch. Lakhous draws on his position as cultural mediator to elucidate the importance of fiction in today's contentious debates over national identities. In …