Letteratura.

Milano, Rizzoli 1998, cm.15x23, pp.314, legatura ed.soprac.fig.a col. Coll.Scala. Prima edizione. La Piccola Isola oggi non accende, più come un tempo, "fuochi fiammanti" per trasmettere i suoi segnali d'allarme. Significa che non ha più messaggi per noi? Che non ha più nulla da dirci? Ma esiste veramente la Piccola Isola? Certo che esiste, assicura Martino, il protagonista che un giorno vi approda alla ricerca della madre scomparsa. Alla ricerca-indagine da libro giallo si sovrappone un viaggio alle radici della nostra civiltà. Una ricerca che sa di ossessione, tra ingannevoli indizi e poco probabili testimonianze. Ma difficoltà e delusioni non fermano Martino, che continua a investigare, a scavare, attratto anche dalla misteriosa bellezza del luogo.

La Diana 2003, cm.13x18, pp.156, brossura cop.a col.intonso.

New Haven & London, Yale University Press 1992, cm.16x24, pp.XV,(1),288, legatura ed. in tutta tela, titoli in argento al dorso, sopraccoperta fig. Preoccupation with adolescence was one of the hallmarks of European culture at the turn of the century. In this absorbing book, John Neubauer examines the representation of adolescents in the literature, visual arts, psychology, and psychoanalytic theory of this period, and he considers the social institutions and youth movements that were formed to accommodate them. Neubauer argues that the depiction of adolescence in art and literature did not merely reflect its emergence as a middle-class phenomenon of industrial societies but helped to shape its social construction as well. Neubauer's discussion of adolescents in literature begins with the inner lives of some adolescent protagonists (Stephen Dedalus, Tonio Kroger and Young Torless) as told by adult narrators. His focus then becomes wider, moving to the adolescent as viewed by a peer-narrator, to the adolescent's cliques and gangs, and to the gardens, schools, and streets in which the narratives of adolescence are set. In the second half of the book he treats nonliterary subjects. Neubauer considers portrayals of adolescents by such artists as Munch, Kirchner, Heckel, Kokoschka, and Schiele. He discusses the narrative construction of Freud's case history of Dora and the problems of female adolescence in Horney's Adolescent Diaries, as well as questions of gender and homosexual identity in turn-of-the-century psychological theories of adolescence. The final chapters consider adolescence in school, church, the German Wandervogel, and the Boy Scouts, focusing on the literary and rhetorical means involved in institutionalizing adolescence.