<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Books - Personal pages, Notes and Blogs - Sandro Magrì</title><link>https://sandromagri.info/en/interests/libri/index.html</link><description>A look at my personal library</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><managingEditor>sandro@freenetst.it (Sandro Magrì)</managingEditor><webMaster>sandro@freenetst.it (Sandro Magrì)</webMaster><copyright>2020- All rights reserved.</copyright><lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://sandromagri.info/en/interests/libri/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>What about Literature?</title><link>https://sandromagri.info/en/interests/libri/letteratura/index.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>sandro@freenetst.it (Sandro Magrì)</author><guid>https://sandromagri.info/en/interests/libri/letteratura/index.html</guid><description>I confess that I do not find much interest in literature and art. Between the thousand or so physical volumes in my personal library, and the more than three thousand ebooks, there are very few novels, fictional works, poems or books that have anything to do with these disciplines. however, I make some exceptions; there are also works that I find brilliant, fascinating, interesting or entertaining. Some authors I esteem unconditionally, a very small and select number. I generally prefer short stories short to novels with a substantial number of pages, prose vs. poetry, newer authors vs to the classics.To give examples:</description></item><item><title>Literature and Society</title><link>https://sandromagri.info/en/interests/libri/books-society/index.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>sandro@freenetst.it (Sandro Magrì)</author><guid>https://sandromagri.info/en/interests/libri/books-society/index.html</guid><description>It cannot be denied that some great works of literature are more useful than many history treatises, economics or sociology to understand society in a certain historical period (and this also applies to film), for example:
the fresco of the nineteenth-century European capitalist bourgeoisie, particularly the French, but also the English and American, during the industrial revolution designed by</description></item><item><title>Books, Food and Cooking</title><link>https://sandromagri.info/en/interests/libri/books-food/index.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>sandro@freenetst.it (Sandro Magrì)</author><guid>https://sandromagri.info/en/interests/libri/books-food/index.html</guid><description/></item><item><title>Books and Wine</title><link>https://sandromagri.info/en/interests/libri/books-wine/index.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>sandro@freenetst.it (Sandro Magrì)</author><guid>https://sandromagri.info/en/interests/libri/books-wine/index.html</guid><description/></item></channel></rss>