The Worst Intentions by Alessandro Piperno
Daniel is the thirty-three-year-old heir to the checkered fortunes of the Sonninos, a Jewish-Italian family whose staggering rise and fall provides the backdrop to this remarkable tragicomedy. Daniel is on bad terms with himself, having inerited both his grandfather's extravagant passions and his father's glum servility. He is prone to the excess typical of his class--despite his family's crumbling textile empire--and is victim of a crippling infatuation with Gaia, the fountainhead of his erotic fantasties and fetishes. In Piperno's urgent, explosive writing, Daniel Sonnino emerges as an unlikely hero in a modern saga of personal liberty and public ritual, love and war, sex and betrayal, sin and forgiveness, set in the opulent neighborhoods of contemporary Rome. Winner of the prestigious 2005 Campiello Prize for Best First Novel and the 2005 Viareggio Prize, The Worse Intentions was the most talked-about debut for an Italian novelist in decades. It sold 80,000 copies in its first two weeks of publication, prompting Italy's leading daily newspaper to describe it as a dangerous novel.Right from the title, this daring book proclaims the furiously bellicose and iconoclastic spirit that drives it. (La Repubblica) Reminiscent of Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, The Worst Intentions is a lavish, important novel by one of Italy's most talented and promising young writers.
Piperno, Alessandro: - Alessandro Piperno, ne en 1972, vit a Rome. Il a consacre son premier essai a Proust et enseigne la litterature francaise a l'universite. En 2005, Avec les pires intentions, son premier roman, provocateur, suscite une polemique en Italie. C'est avec un ton plus grave, mais sans se departir d'une feroce ironie, qu'il ecrit Persecution, Prix du meilleur livre etranger 2011 en France et premier volet du diptyque Le feu ami des souvenirs . Dans Inseparables, il retrouve le ton mordant et petillant de ses debuts, et signe un second volet brillantissime, couronne par le prix Strega 2012.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781933372334 |
| ISBN 10 | 1933372338 |
| Title | The Worst Intentions |
| Author | Alessandro Piperno |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Europa Editions |
| Year published | 2007-07-19 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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