The first and only guide to turning your 21st century democracy into a fascist paradise. Democracy is difficult, flawed and unstable. It involves barely distinguishable political parties taking part in lengthy, overcomplicated and expensive decision-making processes. Trying to engage so many people with political issues seems to lead only to complexity and disagreement. So why bother? Doesn't fascism guarantee a more effective and efficient management of the state? In this short, bitingly ironic mixture of On Tyranny and The Psychopath Test, Italian political activist Michela Murgia explores the logic that is attracting increasing numbers of voters to right-wing populism. Far from its origins in the 20th century, fascism is once again on the rise in an age of increased connectivity and globalism. Murgia shows how many of the elements of our society that we might think would combat closed-mindedness and xenophobia actually fan the flames. Closing with a "fascistometer" to measure the reader's own authoritarian inclinations, How to be a Fascist is a refreshingly direct, polemical book that asks us to confront the fascisim in our governments, in our societies, and in our own political leanings.

How to Be a Fascist: A Manual

Politics & Social Sciences

Murgia, Michela

Social Sciences

Penguin??Books

Accabadora

The award winning Accabadora is an exceptional English-language debut, written with intriguing subtlety reflecting a sensual picture of local Italian life and death in villages during the 1950's. A time where family ties and obligations still decide much of life's ebb and flow. A must read for those who love a touch of the unusual. Formerly beautiful and at one time betrothed to a fallen soldier, Bonaria Urrai has a long held covenant with the dead. Midwife to the dying, easing their suffering and sometimes ending it, she is revered and feared in equal measure as the village's Accabadora. When Bonaria adopts Maria, the unloved fourth child of a widow, she tries to shield the girl from the truth about her role as an angel of mercy. Moved by the pleas of a young man crippled in an accident, she breaks her golden rule of familial consent, and in the recriminations that follow, Maria rejects her and flees Sardinia for Turin. Adrift in the big city, Maria strives as ever to find love and acceptance, but her efforts are overshadowed by the creeping knowledge of a debt unpaid, of a duty and destiny that must one day be hers. Accabadora has been awarded seven major literary prizes, including Italy's prestigious Premio Campiello.

Literature & Fiction

United States

Counterpoint

Literary

SEUIL

Accabadora: Italienischer Text mit deutschen Worterklärungen. B2 (GER)

Contemporary

Reclam Philipp Jun.

Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag Ein sardisches Dorf, Mitte der fünfziger Jahre: Als Dorfschneiderin ist Bonaria gewöhnt, Maß zu nehmen - mit ihren Augen, ihrem Verstand und dem Herzen. Die kleine Maria, die sie als fill'e anima, Kind des Herzens, aufnimmt, ist ihr ganzes Glück. Manchmal hört Maria ihre Ziehmutter, die Accabadora, wie sie sich nachts aus dem Haus stiehlt, und am nächsten Tag läutet die Totenglocke ... Als Bonaria Jahre später im Sterben liegt, hält die alte »Schuld« sie umbarmherzig ans Leben gefesselt und Maria steht vor der schwersten Entscheidung ihres Lebens.

Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co.

L'acabadora

Genre Fiction

Proa

La acabadora

Salamandra

Centrandose especialmente en la figura de Maria de Nazaret, modelo de pureza y perfeccion, Murgia analiza como la imagen de la mujer que prevalece en nuestros dias se ha ido formando a lo largo del tiempo a partir del imaginario catolico. Con sus conocimientos de teologia y su extensa actividad como animadora parroquial, Murgia expone con minuciosidad los diversos elementos que han contribuido a convalidar una vision que simplifica y margina la figura de la mujer. / Focusing especially on the figure of Mary of Nazareth, model of purity and perfection, Murgia analyzes how the image of women that prevails today has been formed over time from Catholic imagery. Murgia discusses the elements that have contributed to validate a vision that simplifies women figures.

Y la iglesia inventó a la mujer (Spanish Edition)

History

World

La acabadora (Spanish Edition)

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