Over time, I’ve grown resentful of metaphors tying fascism to spectres. The ghosts of fascism. Il fantasma del fascismo. I hate the immateriality and elegance ghosts suggest, the haunted house charm.
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the fact of experiencing something or being affected by it because of being in a particular situation or place
Your private self is other: you don’t have the intellectual capacity to keep track of it all. Some days you give away more about yourself than you had intended to: you’re untidy, indecently exposed. Sometimes others seem to know more about you than you do.
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On the occasion of the publication of her latest novel, Elena Ferrante discusses her creative choices and her desire to remain anonymous.
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Investigative reporter Roberto Saviano discusses his latest book Zero Zero Zero, the global cocaine trade, and the personal cost of speaking the truth.
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The author of PEN-supported novel Morning Sea discusses links between writing, revolution and dreaming, and Italy’s complex relationship with emigration
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Elena Ferrante writes for PEN Atlas about the impact of reading Madame Bovary
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