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Recensione di: Lindsay Myers, Making the Italians. Poetics and Politics of Italian Children's Fantasy, Bern, Peter Lang, 2012, 251p., ISBN: 9783039113613, € 38,80.

International audience ; La produzione narrativa di Valerio Evangelisti, assai prolifica ed originale, nasce da un connubio del tutto particolare tra vari generi letterari : fantascienza, giallo, noir, western, romanzo storico, horror, fantasy… Gli elementi contenutistici e stilistici che ci permettono generalmente di definire a quale genere appartiene un romanzo tendono così a sovrapporsi e mescolarsi creando una materia insieme ibrida perché difficilmente definibile e identificabile e coerente perché formata da una serie di tematiche ricorrenti : ricostruzioni storiche, viaggi spazio-temporali, proiezioni nere e apocalittiche, incursioni nel campo dello strano e del para-normale ; da una serie di personaggi che circolano da un romanzo all'altro, violenti, spietati e senza scrupoli (come Eymerich il terribile "detective dello strano" al servizio dell'Inquisizione, o Pantera, il pistolero messicano e stregone vudù).

Download the free epub version Listen to the interview on Radio Treccia Ischia TV Is it possible to disseminate science through social networks? Facebook was created to share thoughts, ideas, sensations and anything mild and fleeting; certainly not for the dissemination of scientific and academic knowledge. On the contrary... by combining the obligatory conciseness of a post, the taste for fantasy at the service of the dissemination of scientific knowledge, and the socialization of such a widespread means of communication, there is a metamorphosis turning the irreversible, ineffable volatility of a social network into the lapidary and realistic fixity of this book of digital cameos, dedicated to many aspects of chemistry, a science which is so inextricably enveloped in our daily life. A "chemical" Rector disguises himself as Alice and ventures into a land, the Facebook land, where the wonders coming from imaginative journeys in matter, in its laws and in its imponderable enigmatic nature, take shape.

Teoría de la cognición social motivada: las personas adoptan un sistema ideológico en un esfuerzo por satisfacer diferentes necesidades de tipo cognitivo y social. Literatura científica: Ideología Política: diferencias cognitivas entre liberales y conservadores (Jost et Al., 2003) Sensibilidad a la repulsión (Inbar, Bloom e Pizarro, 2009) Empatía (Shih et Al., 2009; Galinsky et Al., 2008) ¿Existe una relación entre estas variables? Hipótesis: Los conservadores son más sensibles a la repulsión y muestran una menor capacidad empática. Muestra: 43 participantes. Medio: Cuestionario en papel. 1. Escala para la detección de la sensibilidad a la repulsión: A . Repulsión personal: "Pruebas un saltamontes asado" B. Repulsión personal por un evento ajeno: "Te dicen que alguien ha probado un saltamontes asado" C. Repulsión ajena: "¿Cuánta repulsión sentiría una persona al probar un saltamontes asado?" 2. Escala de la Empatía: Fantasía: "Sueño con los ojos abiertos y fantaseo con cierta regularidad sobre las cosas que me podrían suceder". Consideración Empática: "Cuando veo a alguien explotado, siento que debo protegerlo". Toma de perspectiva: "Creo que hay dos puntos de vista en cada cuestión e intento entender ambos" Malestar Personal: "Me asusta el hecho de encontrarme en situaciones de fuerte tensión emotiva". 3. Escala de la Ideología Política. Análisis de regresión: Variable independiente Escala Empatía, variable dependiente Ideología Política. "Fantasía": β = -.261, p = .146, "Consideración Empática": β = .012, p = .942, "Toma de Perspectiva": β = .018, p = .912, "Malestar Personal": β = .332, p = .069. Diferencias de Género: Comparación de medias. Efectos en la sub-escala "Fantasía" de la empatía. F (1,38) = 3.695, p = .062 Liberales: Hombres M = 3.131, Mujeres M = 3.821; Conservadores: Hombres M = 3.143, Mujeres M = 3.071 Sensibilidad a la repulsión: Diferencia entre las medias de respuesta para la sub-escala "personal" de la repulsión y para la sub-escala "personal ajena" en cuanto a la ideología política. Existe relación solo entre la sub-escala "personal" y la ideología política. Escala de la Empatía: débil relación positiva entre la sub-escala del "malestar personal" y la ideología política conservadora. Ideología Política y Sensibilidad a la Repulsión: Los resultados obtenidos confirman nuestra hipótesis. Ideología Política y Empatía: El efecto obtenido con la sub-escala "malestar personal" puede ser explicado a través de la propia ideología política (evasión de incertidumbre) ; Theory of motivated social cognition: people adopt an ideological system in effort to satisfy various needs of cognitive and social type. Scientific literature: Political ideology: cognitive differences between liberals and conservatives (Jost et Al., 2003) Disgust sensitivity (Inbar, Bloom e Pizarro, 2009) Empathy (Shih et Al., 2009; Galinsky et Al., 2008) Is there a relationship between these variables? Hypothesis: The Conservatives are more sensitive to disgust and show a decreased ability empathic. Sample: 43 participants. Instrument: paper questionnaire. 1. Scale to detect sensitivity to disgust: A . Personal disgust: "Taste a grasshopper grill" B . Own Disgust about a people's event: "Someone told you that another person eat a grasshopper grill" C. people's disgust: "How much would a person disgusted in sampling a grasshopper grill?" 2. Empathy scale: Fantasy: "I Daydream and I fantastic with some regularity, about things that could happen to me". Empathic consideration: "When I see someone being taken advantage of, I feel protective feelings toward him". Perspective taking: "I think there are two different perspectives for each question and I try to understand both". Personal distress: " I'm afraid in front of strong emotional tension situations". 3. Scala Politics Ideology. Regression analysis: Empathy Scale independent variable, dependent variable Politics Ideology. "Fantasy": β = -.261, p = .146, "Empathic consideration": β = .012, p = .942, "Perspective taking": β = .018, p = .912, "Personal discomfort": β = .332, p = .069. Gender differences: comparison of averages. Effects subscale empathy "Fantasy". F (1,38) = 3.695, p = .062 Liberals: Males M = 3.131, Females M = 3.821; Conservative: Males M = 3.143, Females M = 3.071 Disgust sensitivity : Difference between the average answers for the "own subscale " and disgust and for the subscale "other people" about the political ideology. There is a relationship only between the "own subscale" and political ideology. Scale of Empathy: weak positive relationship between the "own subscale" of distress and the conservative political ideology.

Cet article retrace la perception du Moyen Âge à l'époque contemporaine en mettant en évidence les stéréotypes avec lesquels le Moyen Âge est proposé au grand public. Le but de cet article n'est pas de type philologique, comme celui d'indiquer des « erreurs » d'interprétation, mais plutôt d'essayer de comprendre les attitudes culturelles et idéologiques qui sous-tendent ces « erreurs ». Les sources de l'étude ont été choisies afin de couvrir une zone assez vaste, de la littérature scientifique (par exemple le fameux texte du politologue britannique Hedley Bull, 'La société anarchiste') à la littérature fantastique, des produits des médias traditionnels aux films et aux jeux de rôle. Une attention particulière a été accordée à l'analyse des thèmes liés aux Croisades. A cet égard, on a privilégié quelques films célèbres en essayant de montrer comment les topoi médiévaux peuvent être des indicateurs de la vision politique globale des auteurs et, plus précisément, un marqueur de leur vision de la relation entre l'Orient et l'Occident. ; This paper analyzes the cultural perception of the Middle Ages in the contemporary Age by highlighting the most successful stereotypes through which the Middle Ages has been proposed to the public. The aim of this essay is not to correct philologically the "errors" of interpretation, but rather to understand the cultural and ideological attitudes underlying these "errors". The sources of this study were chosen to cover a fairly large area: from scientific literature (for example the famous text of British political scientist Hedley Bull, "The anarchist society") to fantasy literature, from the products of traditional media to films and role-playing games. A particular attention has been paid to the analysis of the themes related to the Crusades; privileging the analysis of some famous films, showing how the medieval topoi used to represent the Middle Ages could be an indicator of the political ideas of the directors and, more precisely, a marker of their vision of the relationship between Western and Eastern civilizations. ; Il saggio ricostruisce la percezione del Medioevo nell'età contemporanea evidenziando quali sono gli stereotipi di maggior successo attraverso i quali viene proposto il Medioevo: lo scopo del saggio non è quello filologico di correggere gli "errori" di intepretazione ma, piuttosto, di comprendere quali atteggiamenti culturali e ideologici sono sottesi agli "errori" interpretativi. Le "fonti" sulle quali condurre lo studio sono state scelte in modo da coprire un ambito piuttosto vasto, dalla letteratura scientifica non medievistica (ad esempio il celebre testo del politologo britannico Hedley Bull "La società anarchica") alla letteratura fantasy, ai prodotti dei mass-media tradizionali, alla filmografia, ai giochi di ruolo. Una particolare attenzione è stata riservata, poi, all'analisi dei tematismi legati alle crociate, a questo proposito è stata privilegiata soprattutto la produzione cinematografica, ripercorrendo alcuni celebri film e cercando di mostrare come i topoi rappresentativi del Medioevo siano, in realtà e di volta in volta, una spia della visione politica globale degli autori e, più precisamente, un marker della loro visione del rapporto Occidente/Oriente.

La tesi indaga le rappresentazioni dello spazio urbano nella letteratura distopico-fantascientifica contemporanea pubblicata negli ultimi dieci anni, in lingua inglese, e il rapporto che viene instaurato tra quello stesso spazio e i personaggi dei romanzi. Si compone di cinque capitoli. L'analisi dei tre testi scelti - On Such a Full Sea di Chang-rae Lee (2014, cfr. Cap. 3), Station Eleven di Emily St. John Mandel (2014, cfr. Cap. 4) e MaddAddam di Margaret Atwood (2013, cfr. Cap. 5) - mostra come a fronte di uno spazio distopico in cui la città è scomparsa e dove prevale la frammentazione in nuclei e comunità separate, il soggetto che incarna un impulso utopico elegge a propria forma di vita uno status diasporico, che diventa gesto politico nel momento in cui egli/lei si rifiuta di adattarsi alla realtà spaziale fortemente distopica in cui si trova. I romanzi qui analizzati, tutti distopie critiche, possono essere considerati come eredi dell'autrice fantascientifica e fantasy Ursula K. Le Guin e del suo racconto "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (1973), dal momento che nel finale alcuni abitanti di una città che sembra essere a tutti gli effetti utopica, decidono di abbandonarla dopo aver scoperto una grande ingiustizia. Quale gesto di rifiuto, decidono dunque di mettersi in cammino verso una mèta non precisata e di non fare più ritorno. Il primo capitolo ha l'obiettivo di esporre le teorie di riferimento della ricerca: gli studi utopici, gli studi sullo spazio, gli studi dello spazio in letteratura, la nozione di diaspora mutuata dalla teoria postcoloniale, le teorie dedicate al camminare quale gesto culturale e politico, e il nomadismo. Il secondo capitolo è dedicato alla presentazione del corpus e al genere distopico con una specifica sezione sulle distopie critiche. I restanti tre capitoli sono dedicati all'analisi. ; This dissertation analyses urban spatial representations in contemporary utopian and science fiction novels, published in the last decade and written in English, with a particular attention devoted to the relationship between space and the characters who inhabit and live that space. The thesis is structured in five chapters. The analysis of the three texts considered - On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee (2014, cfr. Cap. 3), Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014, cfr. Cap. 4) and MaddAddam, by Margaret Atwood (2013, cfr. Cap. 5) - shows an overall dystopian landscape in which the traditional city has disappeared, and a new fragmentation of communities is prevailing. In such a scenario, however, the subjects who embody a utopian impulse embrace a diasporic status which enables him/her to counteract, as a political gesture, against the dystopian space and its powers. The texts can be considered the heirs of science-fiction and fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin and her short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (1973), in which the inhabitants of a seemingly utopian city choose to leave it because of what they consider to be an unbearable injustice. As a way of a political gesture, they decide to start walking away from the city towards an unknown destination and to never come back. The first chapter presents the main theoretical references of the research: utopian studies, space studies, literary space studies, the notion of diaspora borrowed from Postcolonial Theory, theories revolving around walking as a cultural and political act, nomadism. The second chapter presents the corpus and the dystopian genre, with a particular focus on 'critical dystopias.' The last three chapters consist of the analysis.

What makes Guarino's figure so fascinating is the multiplicity of his interests, combined with the long activity of his life as a jurist, which ensure that there is not, just one Guarino, but as many as there are seasons and events that he has found to investigate with the strength of reason, clarity, objectivity, combined with a rigorous method of investigation that dissolves into an inexhaustible constructive fantasy. His thought is to separate time between a before and an after, producing a clear discontinuity with the past and creating new perspectives for the future.This essay wants to investigate two central points in Guarino's reflection: the costituzione materiale and the task of jurists. His speech starts, in a certain sense, when everything is now to be built: that is, in the aftermath of the gigantic tragedy of the Second World War. The "postwar" has confronted scholars of public law with the reality of a structure which, however, is always the expression of certain ideas and certain interests, as they are asserted by certain political forces. Guarino starts from this point, from the awareness that every community gives life to an order that is expressed in a system of rules and at the same time in a system of relationships, but that we must not stop at formal data alone. In Guarino's thought, the way that solidly roots the figure of the jurist in human society and history lies in the ability to stretch out on reality and consider oneself a participant in the construction of the legal system. It is up to subsequent generations of jurists to collect not only a cultural legacy of extraordinary richness, but also, and I would say more than anything else, the example of a jurist informed by the sense of trust in institutions and in man

Il romanzo latino Argenis di John Barclay, pubblicato a Parigi nel 1621, è stato uno dei libri più amati della sua epoca. La ragione del plauso dei lettori sarà da ricercare nella complessa macchina narrativa ideata dall'autore, unione di narrazione, storia, evocata in forma di allegoria, e magistero politico; in questo nuovo modello di scrittura è stato riconosciuto l'atto fondativo del genere cosidetto del "roman à clef" ("romanzo a chiave" in italiano). La ricerca propone un rigoroso studio dell'opera e mira alla definizione del giudizio su di essa espresso dai letterati italiani nel corso del Seicento. La tesi si sofferma in seguito sull'influenza esercitata dall'Argenis sul romanzo italiano. Attenzioni preliminari vengono così dedicate alle alterne fortune godute, nelle scritture di ambientazione fantastica, da alcune caratterizzanti scelte narrative del modello latino. Vengono quindi studiati i "romanzi a chiave" per delineare le declinazioni peculiari del genere in Italia, ponendo particolare attenzione alle forme e finalità di impiego della storia e ai nuovi indirizzi della materia politica. Gli autori di "romanzi a chiave" studiati sono: Francesco Agricoletti, Ciro Anselmi, Francesco Belli, Guidubaldo Benamati, Giovanni Francesco Biondi, Girolamo Brusoni, Niccolò Maria Corbelli, Carlo de' Dottori, Giovanni Francesco Loredano e Ferrante Pallavicino ; John Barclay's Argenis, a latin novel published in Paris in 1621, is one of the best sellers of its time. The reason for success is to be found in the complex narrative system conceived by the author, union of narration, history, recalled in the form of an allegory, and political thought; the foundative act of the so-called genre of the "roman à clef" ("novel with a key") is recognized in this new model of writing. The research aims at studying Barclay's novel and try to define its value in the opinion of the italian men of letters. The thesis focuses also on the influence of the Argenis on the seventeenth century italian novel. Preliminary attentions are dedicated to the variable success met by some characterizing narrative choices of the latin model within the fantasy setting novels. The italian "romans à clef" are examinated to determine the features of the genre in Italy, studying the forms and the finality of the use of history and the rethinkings imposed to the political argument. The authors examinated are: Francesco Agricoletti, Ciro Anselmi, Francesco Belli, Guidubaldo Benamati, Giovanni Francesco Biondi, Girolamo Brusoni, Niccolò Maria Corbelli, Carlo de' Dottori, Giovanni Francesco Loredano e Ferrante Pallavicino.

Il contributo è volto a illuminare le relazioni di potere, le dinamiche sociali, politiche e private della prima prova teatrale büchneriana, composta quando Büchner era un giovane studente di anatomia, impegnato nei moti rivoluzionari. Tra figure retoriche ed economia libidica Morte di Danton sonda i limiti della sovranità nella società occidentale come eredità della Rivoluzione Francese e dei suoi eccessi. In tal senso il corpo incarna i suoi propri effetti attraverso situazioni paradossali, grottesche, argute dove si impone l'ambivalenza dello psichico. La psicoanalisi freudiana e lacaniana offre gli strumenti per indagare il valore semiotico del corpo-carne, la retorica rivoluzionaria e la struttura della sconfessione nella semantica della frase. Alto e basso; purezza e sporcizia nutrono l'universo del Danton dove teologico e scatologico sono embricati in un intreccio blasfemo e confusivo, volto a denunciare una società allo sbando in cui perversione, tradimento e inganno hanno la meglio. Lo sguardo autoptico di Büchner smaschera nell'ideale di sovranità un desiderio di dominio sull'altro che sfocia in violenza e fanatismo; orge e terrorismo reggono i rapporti umani. A dominare è una pulsionalità che gira a vuoto e sconfessa l'Edipo come principio ordinatore delle generazioni e della filiazione. Incesto e sovraesposizione del corpo popolano la scena insieme ai feticci del potere, ridotto a legge di fazione nel disconoscimento della creatura e della sua presenza nel mondo. Celan riconosce nel personaggio di Lucile la lingua della poesia e ne fa uno dei perni del suo discorso Il meridiano. L'accettazione del limite e della differenza; lo scacco della mancanza immettono nella pièce il respiro della creatura capace di congiungere in un unico destino alterità ed etica del vivente. «Body effects and theology of the flesh in Georg Büchner's Danton's death». The present contribution aims at highlighting the political, social and private intertwinings of Georg Büchner's first play, written when he was a twenty-one year old German student of anatomy engaged in revolutionary events. Between rhetorical figures and the economics of Danton's death investigates the limits of sovereignty in Western societies as heritage of the French Revolution and its excesses. Body incarnates its own effects by means of paradoxical situations, wit and ambivalence. Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis yield useful clues to investigate the semiotic value of the flesh as well as revolutionary rhetoric and semantic denial. Robespierre's fantasy of purity nourishes a Sadian-sadistic innocence. The condensation of low and high, purity and filth, discipline and disorder, theological and scatological elements, denounces a scattered social order dominated by perversion, ravaged by deception, exploitation and betrayal. Büchner's clinical clear-eyed, autoptic analysis reaches beyond the idea of sovereignty to a perverted desire of mastery breaking out into violence and fanaticism. Considering the overabundant flesh the body becomes theery protagonist of the drama: the place of possession and exclusion, idolatry and cannibalism. What dominates is a pure, wasteful expenditure; autonomous and unlinking acts reject the Oedipal conflict. This entails the substitution of a personal law for the collective one thus suggesting that the history of the Western onto-theological tradition is the history of the sequestration of the life of the body into fetishes and the disavowal of creatureliness, as Paul Celan argues in The Meridian. Celan draws attention to the ethical questions raised by Lucile as a way of relating to otherness, i. e. to poetry as the very voice of each single creature.

Alberto Manzi is a key figure in the panorama of the development of Italian language and culture. The analysis of his biography and his writing highlights the humanism that characterizes all his literary works and his pedagogical thinking. A fil rouge that underlies his life and professional experiences, an urgency of renewal that results in a concrete commitment against injustice and ignorance, in the expression of a new paideia, in politically engaged writing.He wrote many novels (Grogh storia di un castoro, Collodi award, translated in 20 languages; Orzowei, honored at the Andersen award translated in 32 languages), tales, articles, informative writings; he developed TV and radio programs for children, parents and teachers. Narrator, teacher, journalist, teachers trainer, ranging from natural sciences to poetry, he could practically embody a figure of the "Renaissance".He is still remembered as 'Maestro degli italiani' for the 10-year TV program Non è mai troppo tardi which received the UN award for its important contribution in the fight against illiteracy in the Sixties.Afterwards he taught for years to the Natives in South America, helping them in their fight for their rights. That inspired him to write the trilogy: La luna nelle baracche, El Loco, E venne il sabato. In these works, the narration becomes a song of denunciation and an act of love: the urgency to give voice to a people, to humanity.In the first part of this work, after having highlighted the links between the biography of the author and his humanist vision, and show the status quo of criticism of the author, the reception of Manzi's work was treated from a theoretical point of view. Then the question of timeliness of Manzi's novels has been approached, in relation to the general problem of reading at school. A summary of the interdisciplinary project that I carried out in a network of schools, in order to verify the reception of Manzi nowadays, completes this part.In the second part of this work, several novels and informative writings compose the corpus which has been analysed in specific chapters. From this analysis, the recurrent elements of Manzi's poetry have been extrapolated and elaborated in a separate chapter.The third part of this research include theoretical reflection on translating and adapting, on the role of the adult as intermediary in the selection and reading of novels, on the lisibilité, and also a comparative analysis of some French versions of Manzi's novels. From this work of analysis and that on fortune, we also suggest a new translation more faithful to the style and integrity of the original texts, in view of a possible and desirable new edition of Manzi's novels.From this analysis emerges the figure of a writer who perfectly harmonizes imagination and ethics-politically engagement: this allows the author to create stories very well appreciated by the readers who are at the same time stimulated to reflect on the theme of the story. Manzi surprises, motivates to read, educates, through the magic sphere of art and fantasy. His novels are harmoniously well built between the pedagogical aim and the aesthetic result, so they resist the test of time and encourage us to confirm the thesis of the inclusion of his works among the great classics. ; Alberto Manzi est un acteur clé de la vie culturelle italienne du second vingtième siècle. L'analyse de sa biographie et de son œuvre met en lumière l'humanisme qui caractérise son travail de pédagogue et d'écrivain. Cet humanisme représente le fil rouge qui sous-tend sa vie et ses expériences professionnelles animées par une exigence de renouvellement culturel qui se traduit par un engagement constant contre toutes les formes d'injustice, dans la construction d'une nouvelle paideia.Manzi a conçu de nombreux programmes de télévision et de radio pour différents publics. Il est surtout resté dans les mémoires comme le «Maestro degli italiani» pour l'émission télévisée « Non è mai troppo tardi» [Il n'est jamais trop tard] diffusée dans les années Soixante et couronnée par le prix de l'ONU pour son importante contribution à la lutte contre l'illettrisme. Professeur, formateur, mais aussi écrivain prolifique, abordant tous les genres, de la vulgarisation scientifique à la poésie, en passant par le conte et le roman, il rappelle par son encyclopédisme, plus encore que les grands pédagogues du XIX e siècle, une figure du siècle des Lumière. Il a écrit de nombreux romans (Grogh, storia di un castoro, prix Collodi, traduit en vingt langues; Orzowei, récompensé par le prix Andersen, traduit en trente-deux langues).Il a ensuite enseigné pendant des années aux nativos d'Amérique du Sud, les aidants dans leur lutte pour faire reconnaître leurs droits. Cette expérience lui a inspiré sa trilogie: La luna nelle baracche, El loco, E venne il sabato (inédits en France). Dans ces œuvres, la narration devient un cri de dénonciation et un acte d'amour, répondant à l'urgence de donner une voix aux opprimés.La première partie de ce travail, souligne les liens entre la biographie de Manzi et sa vision humaniste de la société. Nous rendons ensuite compte de l'état de la critique autour de ses œuvres et de la réception et de la fortune de ses travaux en Italie et à l'étranger. Nous nous interrogeons sur le rôle de l'adulte en tant que médiateur et prescripteur dans le choix et la lecture des romans pour la jeunesse.Puis nous abordons la question de l'actualité de son œuvre, en relation avec le problème général de la lecture en milieu scolaire. Enfin, un résumé du projet interdisciplinaire que nous avons réalisé dans un réseau d'établissements scolaires, dans le but de mettre à l'épreuve et d'interroger l'actualité de l'œuvre de notre auteur, complète cette partie.Plusieurs romans et œuvres de vulgarisation qui composent notre corpus sont analysés dans des chapitres spécifiques qui constituent la deuxième partie de notre thèse. Cette analyse nous a permis d'identifier certains éléments récurrents de la poétique de Manzi qui illustrent son profond humanisme.La troisième partie de cette recherche est consacrée à l'étude de la traduction et de l'adaptation de certains ouvrages de Manzi. Une analyse comparative des versions français et italienne de ses romans nous amène à penser qu'une nouvelle traduction plus fidèle au style et à l'esprit des textes originaux s'impose.De cette analyse émerge la figure d'un écrivain qui allie l'imagination à l'engagement, créant des récits qui emportent le lecteur tout en le poussant à réfléchir sur des thématiques cruciales.Manzi surprend, suscite l'envie de lire, éduque, grâce à la magie de son art. Ses romans résistent à l'épreuve du temps et s'inscrivent dans la lignée des grands classiques.