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The Ghost is a 2007 political thriller by the best-selling English novelist and journalist Robert Harris. In 2010, the novel was adapted into a film, The Ghost Writer , directed by Roman Polanski and starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan , for which Polanski and Harris co-wrote the screenplay.
The following year, she published the essay Così è la vita ('Such Is Life'). From 2013 to 2016 she hosted the Rai 3 literature and culture program Pane quotidiano ('Daily Bread'). [ 12 ] In September 2018, along with Daniela Amenta, she co-hosted the program Cactus, basta poca acqua on Radio Capital . [ 13 ]
Carlo Fruttero (19 September 1926 – 15 January 2012) was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies.. Fruttero was born in Turin, Italy.He is mostly known for his joint work with Franco Lucentini, especially as authors of crime novels.
The Ghost was shot in Rome. It is a Gothic re-imagining of the film Les Diaboliques (1955). [1] [3]The Italian production crew are credited by aliases. [4] The music score is credited to "Franck Wallace", whom Italian magazine Bianco e Nero and the Monthly Film Bulletin claim is a pseudonym for Franco Mannino. [4]
Alienation is the theme in works such as Il disprezzo (Contempt or A Ghost at Noon, 1954) and La noia (The Empty Canvas) from the 1950s, despite observation from a rational-realistic perspective. Political themes are often present; an example is La Romana ( The Woman of Rome , 1947), the story of a prostitute entangled with the Fascist regime ...
Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni karˈmɛːlo ˈverɡa]; 2 September 1840 – 27 January 1922) was an Italian realist writer. Life and career [ edit ]
Frontispiece of Giulietta e Romeo from 1535. by Luigi da Porto. Luigi Da Porto (1485 in Vicenza – 10 May 1529) was an Italian writer and historiographer, better known as the author of the novella Historia novellamente ritrovata di due giovani amanti (Newly found story of two noble lovers), with the story of Romeo and Juliet, later reprised by William Shakespeare for his famous drama.
Secondino Tranquilli (1 May 1900 – 22 August 1978), best known by the pseudonym Ignazio Silone (/ s ɪ ˈ l oʊ n i /, Italian: [iɲˈɲattsjo siˈloːne]), was an Italian politician, novelist, essayist, playwright, and short-story writer, world-famous during World War II for his powerful anti-fascist novels.