Rimbaud gave the Illuminations away and never asked for it back. Our new critical edition places the poems among the voices around them: Verlaine, Nouveau, original essays and images. Out now as ebook and paperback on Amazon and Apple Books. Continue reading A Book Given Away 🇫🇷✒️🏴
Oscar Wilde is remembered for Dorian Gray and the drawing-room comedies, yet his tales and prose poems hold the whole artist: compassionate, satirical, mystical and unsparing. A guided tour from The Happy Prince to The House of Judgment, with the aphorisms and what they mean for readers today.
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On October 9, 1893, Mário de Andrade was born in São Paulo, and Brazilian literature found its most generous builder. Poet, novelist, musicologist, folklorist, and tireless letter-writer, he helped launch the 1922 Week of Modern Art and spent his short life insisting that Brazilian art should sound like Brazil. As the 133rd anniversary of his birth approaches, we revisit his life and major achievements: the poems of Paulicéia Desvairada, the shape-shifting trickster epic Macunaíma: The Hero Without Any Character, and the quietly devastating short fiction of Contos novos, from “Vestida de preto” to “O peru de Natal”. We also trace his legacy, from the library and museum that bear his name to his influence on modern poetry, prose, and cultural policy across Brazil and beyond. The post closes with four verified quotes drawn from his books and essays, including the famous “Eu sou trezentos” (“I am three hundred”). Whether you are meeting him for the first time or returning to an old companion, this is an invitation to listen for the music under his plain words. Continue reading Mario de Andrade
Grazia Deledda — Nobel Prize laureate, Sardinian storyteller, and one of the most underread voices in world literature — wrote her short story collection Sole d’estate (Summer Sunshine) in 1933, composing its twenty-five stories while living with a cancer she knew would be fatal. The result is one of the most quietly extraordinary works of Italian modernism: a collection in which landscape and mortality, folklore and stoic endurance, are held in a prose of deceptive simplicity and genuine depth.
Summer Sunshine has never been translated into English — until now. This Blue Phoenix Editions ebook presents the first complete English translation of the collection, curated and translated by Enzo Martinelli, together with critical essays exploring Deledda’s place in the Italian short story tradition, her late-period stoic vision, her relationship to the verismo of Verga and the existential irony of Pirandello, and the structural reasons why her short fiction has remained invisible to Anglophone readers for nearly a century. The volume is complemented by AI-generated imagery responding to the visual world of the stories, and by an essential bibliographical apparatus for readers wishing to explore Deledda’s work further.
For readers of Italian literature, world fiction in translation, and the literature of illness and endurance: this is a collection that has waited long enough.
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Every September, the Galician coast recalls a writer it never quite knew how to contain. Emilia Pardo Bazán — novelist, short story master, feminist, and Spain’s first female university professor — spent five decades refusing the room society allotted her. On her birth anniversary, we revisit her life, her Gothic short fiction, and the untranslated collection, Cuentos trágicos, still waiting for English-language readers. Continue reading Emilia Pardo Bazán
