Filippo Tuena
Filippo Tuena si è laureato in Storia dell'Arte alla Sapienza di Roma. Fino al 1996 ha lavorato nell'antiquariato. Da allora si occupa di libri.
Vive gran parte dell'anno a Milano. Scrive narrativa e dirige una collana per l'editore 'Nutrimenti'.
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A profound influence of literary innovations of Irish writer James Augustine Aloysius Joyce on modern fiction includes his works, Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).
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Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
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Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
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