Secure Payments
Your security comes first. All our payment methods follow PCI standards and support 3D Secure authentication for safe checkout.
This collection by Cesare Garboli presents a series of literary‑critical essays and personal reflections blending autobiography, cultural commentary and acute reading of Italian and European literature. The work traverses figures such as Roberto Longhi, Italo Calvino and Goffredo Parise, exploring how the presence of books and reading shaped a life defined by both love of and conflict with the written text. The style walks the border between memoir and essay, illuminating how embodied experience, criticism and literary culture converge in the formation of a personal intellectual terrain. It offers a unique contribution to literary studies by showing how criticism can also be a form of self‑articulation and engagement.