Gianfranco de Turris – 𝐀𝐗𝐈𝐒 ֎ 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈

“Beyond the Real”, or of the literary dignity of the Fantastic

Published on: May 21, 2020 Last updated on: 10 September 2020 Written by: Marco Pelagatti Categorized into: Italian Literature, Mito, Characters, Guests Book

Fantastic literature is still barely regarded by too many as paraliterature; "Beyond the Real", the new volume published by GOG edizioni helps us to affirm the opposite, analyzing the work of five of the most important authors of the genre from the end of the XNUMXth century to today: Lovecraft, Machen, Meyrink, Tolkien and Ashton Smith.

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Spiritual autobiography

Published on: November 12, 2019 Last updated on: November 12, 2019 Written by: Luke Siniscalco Categorized into: Philosophy, Characters, Guests Book

The transcription of two long interviews released in 1969 and 1971, as well as three articles published in "Ur", integrate and complete the autobiographical picture of Julius Evola, which the Roman philosopher had already exhibited in his 1963 work "The path of cinnabar". In the texts collected here, Evola ranges with great ease from youthful readings to mathematics studies, from futurism to Dadaism, from his relations with Guénon to small portraits of famous people with whom he was in friendly relations, such as Marinetti and Ezra Pound.

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Gustav Meyrink at the frontiers of the occult

Published on: 25 September 2018 Last updated on: October 29, 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, Italian Literature, Characters, Guests Book

The collection of Meyrinkian essays just published by Edizioni Arktos allows us to outline a portrait of the Austrian novelist, in which the biographical and the literary aspects are configured as two sides of the same coin.

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