Tommaso Di Salvo Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Quand Virgile et Dante, à l'aube du dimanche de Pâques de l'année 1300, débarquent sur la plage de l'Anti-purgatoire, après avoir traversé les cercles infernaux et reparcouru, à travers un boyau obscur, tout l'espace du centre de la terre à sa surface, l'impression de bonheur est intense, quasi paradisiaque... Au contraire, les récits de voyages imaginaires de la même époque décrivent des purgatoires qui sont des sortes d'enfers : mêmes feux, mêmes tortures - seulement écourtées, seulement " à terme ". Dante rompt brutalement avec cette tradition ; son Purgatoire semble plutôt tendre vers le Paradis. Malgré les tourments racontés, la mémoire du lecteur garde l'image d'une montagne au milieu de la mer dans la lumière du soleil, habitée par les anges, rythmée par les manifestations de l'art - sculptures, chants, rencontres de poètes, image d'un lieu où devenir bon signifie devenir léger.

This enormously engaging, strange novel is both an engrossing saga of a family and a hilarious account of addiction and failure as its helpless hero, notionally undergoing psychiatric help, manages spectacularly to fail to give up smoking, run his business or make sense of his private life.A hymn to self-delusion and procrastination ZENO'S CONSCIENCE has provoked enormous affection in its readers both in Italian and English since its first publication in the 1920s.

“The great plague novel.” —The New Yorker Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then cruelly separated, and must face many dangers including plague, famine and imprisonment, and confront a variety of strange characters—the mysterious Nun of Monza, the fiery Father Cristoforo and the sinister "Unnamed"—in their struggle to be reunited. A vigorous portrayal of enduring passion, The Betrothed's exploration of love, power, and faith presents a whirling panorama of seventeenth-century Italian life and is one of the greatest European historical novels. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.