The Road to San Giovanni - Italo Calvino Manon Smits This selection of Seneca's letters

This selection of Seneca's letters shows him upholding the ideals of Stoicism - the wisdom of the self-possessed person immune to life's setbacks - while valuing friendship and courage

De verteller in Het volle leven is een Italiaans-Amerikaanse schrijver die in Los Angeles woont met zijn zwangere vrouw Joyce

Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them

At the softly lapping shores of the river - where the faithful come to bathe during their final moments - self-knowledge is sought and memories put to rest

overgeschoold of die natuurlijke eenvoud ontberen

The Road to San Giovanni - Italo Calvino Manon Smits This selection of Seneca's lettersA collection of five autobiographical essays by one of the masters of Italian literatureIn these five elegant autobiographical meditations Italo Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists. He also muses on the social contracts, language and sensations associated with emptying the kitchen rubbish and the shape he