Simone Massoni Bücher

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer insights into human nature and society. It follows the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput, he discovers a miniature world, towering over its inhabitants and observing their society from a god-like perspective. Conversely, in Brobdingnag, Gulliver becomes the curiosity, displayed in markets as a tiny man among giants. His journey continues to Laputa, a flying island where he encounters a society of speculators detached from reality, allowing their homeland to fall into disrepair while they obsess over impractical ideas. Finally, he reaches the land of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses he admires, contrasting sharply with the Yahoos, filthy creatures resembling humans. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), born in Dublin, crafted this enduring classic, which remains a profound exploration of the follies and vices of humanity through the lens of fantastical adventures.

Seit Jean-Paul Rappeneaus Verfilmung mit Gérard Depardieu in der Titelrolle kennt ihn auch hierzulande ein jeder: Cyrano de Bergerac mit der langen Nase, der launigen Rede und der schüchternen Seele; den Haudegen, Phantasten und unglücklichen Liebhaber. In Frankreich gibt es seit je keine beliebtere Bühnenfigur, kein Theaterstück, das so häufig gespielt und gelesen wird wie Rostands 1897 enstandene „romantische Komödie“ über das Leben, die Liebe und den Tod des großen Gascogners. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. Sprachen: Deutsch, Französisch

"Geno Hastor Venti, 11 anni mostrati con timido orgoglio, aveva pensieri ricci come i suoi capelli neri e un destino che lo aspettava nascosto in quel dolore lontano. Misteri e sospetti sull'improvvisa scomparsa dei suoi genitori gli divoravano la mente. [...] Ma, come talvolta accade, la vita improvvisamente prende un altro colore e basta un colpo di vento perché le nubi scompaiano mostrando il cielo azzurro senza più tristezza." Geno è un timido ragazzino, che frequenta la prima media e abita in un paesino dove il tempo sembra essersi fermato. Ogni tanto fa sogni un po' strambi che, nella maggior parte dei casi, si avverano. Ma una notte il ragazzo fa la conoscenza di un'eccentrica signora, Madame Crikken, chegli farà attraversare un grande sigillo nero per portarlo in una dimensione parallela... Dall'autrice di Nina, la Bambina della Sesta Luna, la prima, nuova, attesissima avventura di un ragazzino davvero speciale!

Carmen, a Spanish story? Not in the spirit of Mérimée, who ironically sidesteps the Castilian Hispanicism of the romantics and reveals the fringes of the peninsula: in Andalusia, between Seville and Gibraltar, the mad love of a rootless Basque for a Bohemian girl, without homeland or ties. A passion for extremes: José, a brigand, and Carmen, an actress with multiple faces. A passion for freedom, which conceals a deeper longing revealed in this critical edition. The strange fascination the narrator, an overlooked character in Bizet's opera, feels for Carmen: a French scholar captivated by the enchantments of this woman who speaks a fiery and brutal language he cannot understand. Is Carmen the embodiment of literature, magical and fatal? Perhaps it is this other love story, this corrida of words hidden at the heart of the text, that gives the tale of Carmen's life and death its true universality.