Giovanni Papini

[mr_michel]

i was just thinking about a couple books i read by this italian author, "cog" and "the black book", which its a sequel of cog.
they were very interesting, they are a series of acountings about meetings with some notable people trough the eyes of an amoral man, it also gets about human nature. its been some time since i read those ones so i cant remember a lot of details, in fact i had a hard time remembering who the author was.
so i was wondering if someone has also read this books, and whats your opinion, have you read other titles from him? i know he wrote a couple titles about christ and the devil which are supoused to be pretty good.

by the way this is my post number 300
100 post in 10 days, i really need to get a life

 

[mr_michel]

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[clueless]

I read Words and Blood, a collection of short stories he wrote when he was young. They are very poignant and satyric. His writing changed after his religious conversion, and his later works, which I have not read, have religious themes. It is a very interesting author.