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The Steel Flea, Nikolay Leskov
'He gave orders that they were not to get any hot glum pudding in flames, for fear the spirits in their innards might catch fire'
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There are computers, loans, envy, image obsession, false religion, lack of culture, fabrication of history, unscrupulous bureaucracy, corruption and incivility.l never read a poem so beautiful, but baffling; so imbued with lyricism, but bitter as poison; so truthful, that you immediately want to read Holy Scripture again; so present that you regret the past; so pungent that you feel you should wear gloves when flipping the pages.
Title: Barcodes - Codici a Barre
Original: Barcodes - Codici a Barre
Category: Poems (in English & in Italian language)
Author: https://www.shtepiaelibrit.com/store/sq/1881__shpendi-sollaku-noeShpend Sollaku Noe
Publisher: Dija Pogradec
Year: 2010
Pgs. 121
Weight: 0.23 kg
ISBN: 978-1-4490-5398-7
Shpend Sollaku Noe stands up as Dante Alighieri of the twenty-first century: there are no pits or circles of hell in his poem, but his vision is equally terrifying. Reading Barcodes, we feel more than damned, real puppets who move around the world-hell where, instead of flames. There are computers, loans, envy, image obsession, false religion, lack of culture, fabrication of history, unscrupulous bureaucracy, corruption and incivility.l never read a poem so beautiful, but baffling; so imbued with lyricism, but bitter as poison; so truthful, that you immediately want to read Holy Scripture again; so present that you regret the past; so pungent that you feel you should wear gloves when flipping the pages. Stelvio Mestrovich Wotninsky, 2009.
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