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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 · This interview, conducted over email—questions in English, responses in Italian (translated by poet, playwright, and co-translator of the English stage adaptation of Roberto Saviano’s best-selling true crime book Gomorrah, Dave Johnson)—aims not to uncover the biography of the author Edoardo Albinati, but rather to dive deeper still into ...

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

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   Sep 1, 2019 · Sep 1, 2019. ‘TO BE BORN MALE IS AN INCURABLE DISEASE.’. The writer Edoardo Albinati was born in Rome in 1956 where he still lives and teaches literature at the city’s Rebibbia prison. Albinati won Italy’s most prestigious literary award, the Premio Strega.

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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 · Paul Elie on how Edoardo Albinati’s gratuitously long novel about religion, gender, and violence becomes a test of its own unruly philosophy.

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

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   Aug 19, 2019 · Book review: Edoardo Albinati’s novel moves between fiction and philosophy to explore violence

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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 ...

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   Mar 17, 2016 · A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre Edoardo Albinati's The Catholic School, the winner Italy's most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy.

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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.

   Sex and Power in “The Catholic School” - The New Yorker

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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.

   Sex and Power in “The Catholic School” - The New Yorker

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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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   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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   How does Albinati enter the minds of the killers?

   • Albinati enters the minds of the killers and descends into them; we are trapped in their amber, their humid, claustrophobic logic. You expect him to take an ax to all this, to let in reason, but he merges with the muck. 'To kill is an extreme way of making someone yours,' he blandly writes.

   A Prize-Winning Blend of Fact and Fiction Makes Itself at Home in the

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8. www.nytimes.com › 2019/08/06 › booksA Prize-Winning Blend of Fact and Fiction Makes Itself at ...

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   Aug 6, 2019 · A horrific crime committed in Italy in 1975 is the inspiration for Edoardo Albinati’s “The Catholic School,” epic in length but narrow in tone.