Pierdomenico Baccalario

In a Few Words. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert – vol. 5

Classics

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Becoming a father for the first time in his life, Pierdomenico Baccalario felt the passage of time: its repetition, the necessary one, the one to invent. He then used Flaubert’s perfect words to convey the frenzy of his protagonist to all those young readers who think of the future as an endless time that doesn’t depend on them. And, like her, they make mistakes.

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A classic that speaks to the present with surprising clarity. Through dreams, restlessness, and illusions, a story that invites reflection on time, choices, and the weight of expectations — especially when they seem endless.

Publisher: Edizioni EL

Target: 12+

Year: 2016

Author

Pierdomenico Baccalario

Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.

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