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8 episodes in this season

Martin Eden (di Jack London)

49 min

Natural Histories (by Primo Levi)

55 min

Waiting for Godot (by Samuel Beckett)

50 min

The Gambler (by Fyodor Dostoevsky)

50 min

Frankenstein (di Mary Shelley)

50 min

Poirot at Styles Court (by Agatha Christie)

48 min

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The Life Ahead (by Romain Gary)

50 min

Reunion (by Fred Uhlman)

55 min

For a Handful of Books

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The Life Ahead (by Romain Gary)

Season 23 · Episode 7 · Mar 7, 2020

The seventh episode features a comparison between the Liceo Scientifico "Antonio Rosmini" of Rovereto and the Liceo Scientifico "Benedetti-Tommaseo" of Venice on a highly successful novel: "The Life Ahead" by the French writer of Lithuanian origin Romain Gary. Published in 1975, the book won the most important French literary prize in the same year: the Goncourt. Set in the immediate post-war period, in the multi-ethnic Parisian suburb of Belleville, Romain Gary's novel tells the story of Momo, a 10-year-old Arab boy, and Madame Rose, an elderly Jewish ex-prostitute who miraculously escaped the Holocaust, to whom the child was entrusted. Alongside them is a whole crowd of "miserables", outcasts of society. Despite the harshness, crude and even violent tones of the story, the book has moments of humor and authentic poetry.

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For a Handful of Books

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199850m9.0

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The Life Ahead (by Romain Gary)

Season 23 · Episode 7 · Mar 7, 2020

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