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1. www.12thstreetonline.com › interview-with-edoardo“In Books, as in Confessionals, Only the Unspeakable Is Worth ...

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   Aug 13, 2020 · Edoardo Albinati’s The Catholic School (FSG, 2019) redeemed a year in disappointing literature for me. Amid a slew of 200-page unambitious semi-autobiographical novels, the sprawling 1,200 pages of The Catholic School came as a revelation—and none too soon: I read them, rapt, over twelve days of Christmas, their macabre themes bleeding into ...

2. www.alainelkanninterviews.com › edoardo-albinatiEdoardo Albinati - Alain Elkann Interviews

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   Sep 1, 2019 · There are many stories in the book and there is one voice that is the narrator. It is not autobiographically me, and I was partially inspired by other people like me who did these things. The fun in writing is that you are free to use your own life, and the life of others, and the life of fantasy, as pure fictional material.

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3. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2019/08/26Sex and Power in “The Catholic School” - The New Yorker

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   Aug 19, 2019 · Edoardo Albinati’s gratuitously long novel about religion, gender, and violence becomes a test of its own unruly philosophy. By Paul Elie. August 19, 2019. The narrator is preoccupied by a...

4. www.irishtimes.com › culture › booksThe Catholic School: 1,300 pages of masculinity explained

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   Aug 19, 2019 · Edoardo Albinati: the apparatus which he employs to 'explain' the crime is retrograde or basic sociology/psychology. Photograph: Camilla Morandi/Getty Images. Seán Hewitt. Mon Aug 19 2019 -...

5. www.thewhitereview.org › reviews › edoardo-albinatisEdoardo Albinati’s ‘The Catholic School’ - The White Review

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   Edoardo Albinati’s ‘The Catholic School’. ‘What man is, whatever man is under the eye of heaven, that I burn to know and that – I do not say this lightly – I would endure knowing.’. This line was delivered by William Golding in a 1980 lecture titled ‘Belief and Creativity’, where he argued that the knowledge of our deepest ...

6. www.loc.gov › item › 2021690419A Conversation with Author Edoardo Albinati - Library of Congress

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   Feb 23, 2017 · Edoardo Albinati discussed his book, "La Scuola Cattolica" in an event cosponsored by the Embassy of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, New Academia Publishing and Italians in DC/ParoLab.

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   What is the Catholic school by Edoardo Albinati about?

   • Edoardo Albinati’s gratuitously long novel about religion, gender, and violence becomes a test of its own unruly philosophy. A very long novel—like Edoardo Albinati’s “ The Catholic School ” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)—complicates our sense of what a novel is.

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   Who is Edoardo Albinati?

   • Mostly, though, he writes as Edoardo Albinati, an author in middle age who is struggling to finish a book. Weary of fiction, he expounds on whatever is on his mind, and the very long novel becomes a succession of slantwise essays about gender, sex, and power.

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   Who is Giovanni Albinati?

   • Albinati was born in 1956 and was educated at a Catholic boys’ school in the prosperous district of Rome known as the Quartiere Trieste before completing his studies at a state-run, coeducational high school.

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   What is the most dramatic incident Albinati relates from his school days?

   • The most dramatic incident Albinati relates from his school days involves some bullies whipping a weaker boy, as in a rite of flagellation. The rape and murder is treated in a dozen unspectacular pages.

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   What is the main concern of Albinati's novel?

   • And Albinati intimates that the main concern of the novel will be a crime committed by some classmates of his in September, 1975: a rape and murder that became headline news in Italy the way that the Central Park rape case did in New York in the next decade.

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   Did Albinati ever get close to the killers?

   • Even when it becomes clear that Albinati was never close to the killers, a number of accidental links tie his own circle to the crime, and as we later learn, several of these students went on to their own careers of violence, criminality, and political extremism.

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8. fable.co › author › edoardo-albinatiEdoardo Albinati - Fable | Stories for everyone

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   Edoardo Albinati is a novelist and screenwriter who lives in Rome. His novel Svenimenti won the 2004 Viareggio Literary Award, and The Catholic School won the Strega Prize in 2016. For the last twenty-five years, he has worked as a teacher in Rebibbia, the largest prison in Rome.