The Catholic School

b>Edoardo Albinati's The Catholic School creates a world: a world of power, sex, violence and the threat of masculinity, of the power wielded and misused by men./b>'To be born male is an incurable disease'In 1975, three young well-off men, former students at Rome's prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno, brutally torture, rape, and murder two young women. The event, which comes to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocks and captivates all of Italy, exposing the violence and dark underbelly of the upper middle class at a moment when the traditional structures of family and religion are under threat.Edoardo Albinati sets his novel in the halls and corridors of San Leone Magno in the late 1960s and the 1970s, exploring the intersection between the world of teenage boys and the structures of power in modern Italy. Along with indelible portraits of teachers and pupils - the charming Arbus, the literature teacher Cosmos, and his only Fascist friend, Max - Albinati's novel also reflects on the legacy of abuse, the Italian bourgeoisie, and the relationship between sex, violence, and masculinity.

Bericht

An important, at times magnificent book . . . An entirely original narrative . . . A pivotal moment in contemporary literature. Corriere della Sera

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Edoardo Albinati, Albinati Edoardo
• Mitarbeit: Antony Shugaar (Übersetzung), Shugaar Antony (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Picador Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 13.06.2019
• EAN: 9781509856282
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-5628-2
• Seiten: 1280
• Abmessung: 153 mm x 234 mm x 57 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; FICTION / Coming of Age, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Rome, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Christian / General, Italy, Narrative theme: Coming of age, c 1960 to c 1970, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, Religious & Spiritual Fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary