"Omertà (novel) Omertà is a novel by Mario Puzo, published posthumously in 2000. It was first published by Ballantine Books. ""Omertà"" follows the story of Don Aprile's adopted ""nephew"" Astorre Viola. Puzo never saw the publication of ""Omertà"", but the manuscript was finished before his death, as was the manuscript for ""The Family"". In a review originally published in the ""San Francisco Chronicle"", Jules Siegel, who had worked closely with Puzo at Magazine Management Company, speculated that ""Omertà"" may have been completed by ""some talentless hack."" Siegel also acknowledges the temptation to ""rationalize avoiding what is probably the correct analysis"
"author of The Godfather has more tasty twists than a plate of fusilli"", and ""this deft and passionate last novel by the Balzac of the Mafia"", while ""The New York Times"" said ""Fact is, the more I think about it, the more this book gives me agita. God forbid that I should criticize the author of the great ""GF,"" but I gotta be honest with you: the man has lost his touch."" Omertà (novel) Omertà is a novel by Mario Puzo, published posthumously in 2000. It was first published by Ballantine Books. ""Omertà"" follows the story of Don Aprile's adopted"
"of Omertà and the Cosa Nostra. His best known works in that vein are the trilogy ""The Godfather"", ""The Sicilian"", and ""Omertà"". The final book of the series, ""Omertà"", was finished before his death but published posthumously in 2000 from his manuscript. Omertà Omertà () is a Southern Italian code of honor and code of silence that places importance on silence in the face of questioning by authorities or outsiders; non-cooperation with authorities, the government, or outsiders; and willfully ignoring and generally avoiding interference with the illegal activities of others (i.e not contacting law enforcement or the authorities when one"
"Umberto Eco Umberto Eco (; ; 5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is widely known for his 1980 novel ""Il nome della rosa"" (""The Name of the Rose""), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including ""Il pendolo di Foucault"" (""Foucault's Pendulum"") and ""L'isola del giorno prima"" (""The Island of the Day Before""). His novel ""Il cimitero di Praga"" (""The Prague Cemetery""), released in 2010, topped the bestseller charts in Italy. Eco also wrote"
"of the Kennedy family who becomes President of the United States early in the 2000s. Puzo never saw the publication of his penultimate book, ""Omertà"", but the manuscript was finished before his death, as was the manuscript for ""The Family"". However, in a review originally published in the ""San Francisco Chronicle"", Jules Siegel, who had worked closely with Puzo at Magazine Management Company, speculated that ""Omertà"" may have been completed by ""some talentless hack."" Siegel also acknowledged the temptation to ""rationalize avoiding what is probably the correct analysis – that [Puzo] wrote it and it is terrible."" Puzo died of"
"Guillermo Martínez (writer) Guillermo Martínez (born 29 July 1962) is an Argentine novelist and short story writer. Martínez was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. He gained a PhD in mathematical logic at the University of Buenos Aires. After his degree in Argentina, he worked for two years in a postdoctoral position at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford. His most successful novel has been Crímenes Imperceptibles (Imperceptible Crimes) known as ""The Oxford Murders"", written in 2003. In the same year, he was awarded the Planeta Prize for this novel, which has been translated into a number of languages. The book has appeared"
"Ola Bauer Ola Bauer (24 July 1943 – 12 June 1999) was a Norwegian novelist and playwright. He made his literary debut with the novel ""Graffiti"" in 1976, under the pseudonym Jo Vendt. Among his best known books are ""Humlehjertene"" (1980), ""Rosapenna"" (1983), and ""Metoden"" (1985). Bauer was awarded Gyldendal's Endowment in 1982, and the Dobloug Prize in 1998. He died of cancer in 1999. Bauer was born 24 July 1943 in Holmenkollåsen, Oslo, during the German occupation of Norway. His father was a baker, and an active member of the Norwegian resistance movement. In 1943, he was arrested, while"
"Alberto Moravia Alberto Moravia (; November 28, 1907 – September 26, 1990), born Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his debut novel ""Gli indifferenti"" (1929) and for the anti-fascist novel ""Il Conformista"" (""The Conformist""), the basis for the film ""The Conformist"" (1970) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Other novels of his adapted for the cinema are ""Agostino"", filmed with the same title by Mauro Bolognini in 1962; ""Il disprezzo"" (""A Ghost at Noon"" or ""Contempt""), filmed by Jean-Luc Godard as ""Le Mépris"" (""Contempt"""
"Miranda (novel) Miranda is a novel written by Antoni Lange in 1924. It was the last great work of Lange before he died , and his most famous book today. It is said that ""Miranda"" is an ""occultic fiction"" and a ""romance ranked to a philosophical treaty"". The novel is also known as ""novelty writing"" which conciliates dystopia and utopia. It is a matter of opinion to classify the novel to modernism or interwar period. The title of the novel refers to the person of Miranda from Shakespeare's play called ""The Tempest"". ""Miranda"" is also full of allusions to many"
"(1942), ""Portraits of Palmer's Era"" (1946), ""Corea"" (1949), ""Prague Spring"" (1973), ""How Did We Manage to Get to Zero; The Cypriot Tragedy"" (1975), ""Old and New China"" (1977), ""Responsibilities"" (first volume 1980, second volume 1984, third volume 1985). His death on 14 February 2001 caused controversy in Cyprus as in his will he had asked to be cremated. There were no crematoria in Cyprus and there was a heated debate between those supporting the availability of cremation as an alternative and those (mainly religious Orthodox Christians) who disapproved of it. Ploutis Servas Ploutis Servas (Πλουτής Σέρβας in Greek; 22 May"
"Emma Brown Emma is the title of a manuscript by Charlotte Brontë, left incomplete when she died in 1855. It was completed by Clare Boylan and published as Emma Brown in 2003. Brontë began work on ""Emma"" in 1853. Her marriage in 1854 and the lukewarm enthusiasm of her husband for the project may have contributed to her slow progress towards completion. The manuscript was left unfinished at her death in 1855. The original twenty-page manuscript consists of two chapters describing the arrival of an apparently wealthy young girl, ""Matilda Fitzgibbon"", at an expensive private school. It transpires that her"
"on Ernesto principally for his Italian-language correspondence. Ernesto (novel) Ernesto is an unfinished novel by Umberto Saba (1883–1957), written in 1953 and published posthumously in 1975. It was his only work of fiction. It was largely autobiographical, including details about the title character's friendship and love for a violinist, and his attachment to his native Trieste. As one critic says: ""he revisited not only the scenes but also the moods of his puberty"". A screenplay freely adapted from the novel served as the basis for an Italian-language film of the same name in 1979. The events in the novel take"
"Ernesto (novel) Ernesto is an unfinished novel by Umberto Saba (1883–1957), written in 1953 and published posthumously in 1975. It was his only work of fiction. It was largely autobiographical, including details about the title character's friendship and love for a violinist, and his attachment to his native Trieste. As one critic says: ""he revisited not only the scenes but also the moods of his puberty"". A screenplay freely adapted from the novel served as the basis for an Italian-language film of the same name in 1979. The events in the novel take place in the course of a month"
"Dies Alone"") between September and November 1946 (shortly before his death), whilst in a mental institution. He told his family that he had written ""a great novel"". At the time of Fallada's death in February 1947, aged 53, from a weakened heart from years of addiction to morphine, alcohol and other drugs, he had recently completed ""Every Man Dies Alone"", an anti-fascist novel based on the true story of a German couple, Otto and Elise Hampel, who were executed for producing and distributing anti-Nazi material in Berlin during the war. According to Jenny Williams, he wrote the book in a"
"difficult stylistically, but also philosophically. He offers up his immense knowledge without thinking of the reader, without glancing back at him – a knowledge of art, science, philology, naturally. I can understand the value of his texts, but I don't understand how they were made. In 2002 moved into large-scale forms with ""Помни о Фамагусте"" (""Remember Famagusta""), a ""novel in the Schlegelian sense."" With time, he acquired the reputation of a refined stylist, erudite intellectual and thinker. He died from lung cancer in 2006, the same year that his last novel, ""Спокойные поля"" (""Quiet Fields"") was posthumously published. A volume"
"""Orio Vergani"" prize. Alberto Denti died in Rome in 1968. Alberto Denti di Pirajno Alberto Denti di Pirajno (7 March 1886 – 15 January 1968) was an Italian writer, medical doctor, and gastronome. He is now best known for his 1955 book, ""A Cure for Serpents"". Alberto Denti, Duke of Pirajno, was born in La Spezia in 1886. He was educated at the University of Florence and spent almost twenty years (1924–1942) as the personal physician of the Duke of Aosta. He was the governor of Tripoli, the capital of Libya, from 1941 until 1943, when he surrendered the city"
"biggest international success, continues to sell well in the French and Spanish markets. His greatest critical success as a writer was his final novel ""Elizabeth and After"" which won the 1999 Governor General's Award for English-language Fiction only a few weeks before his death. He had been nominated twice previously, but had not won, in 1979 for ""The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone"" and in 1997 for ""Last Seen"". A founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada, he served on the executive board for many years and as president in 1986. During his presidency, the Writer's Union was"
"some of the cities where he lived). He attended high school in Brazil and in 1948 he graduated in law in Rome. In the early 1950s he worked as a journalist, translator, and author of dramas for radio. In 1964 he married Leyla Givonetti, with whom he had a son, Mattia, and a daughter, Agata. As a writer he possessed a dry and incisive style. His historical novel ""L'ordalia"", set in Medieval times, was a finalist for the 1979 Campiello prize. Among his other major works of fiction are: ""La prova dei sentimenti"" (1966), ""Inchiesta sul mio amore"" (1972), ""L'ordalia"""
"Orlando da Costa Orlando António Fernandes da Costa (July 1929 − 27 January 2006) was a Portuguese writer. He was an eminent novelist and poet, author of the prize-winning novels ""O signo da ira"" (1961) and ""O Último Olhar de Manú Miranda"" (2000), and of many other literary works. Of Goan descent on his father Luís Afonso Maria da Costa's side and of Portuguese and French on his mother Amélia Maria Fréchaut Fernandes' side, he was born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, a Portuguese colony at the time. He spent his youth in Margao, Goa, Portuguese India, another Portuguese colony. At"
"Marguerite Yourcenar prize (Melegnano – 2004), Arcobaleno della Vita prize (Rovigo 2007). Leonardo Omar Onida Leonardo Omar Onida (born 19 July 1973) is a poet who is artistic director of Ottobre in Poesia, an annual literary festival in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy. Onida is a graduate in philosophy at University of Sassari and specialized in migration and social policies. He is coordinator of training courses and currently working in information technology and communications. He is co-founder of Equi-tao project, founder and artistic director of the festival Ottobre in Poesia, International Literary Prize of the city of Sassari that is an integral"
"extremely stark and unadorned, characterised by elementary, common words in an elaborate syntax. A complex mood is established by mixing a proposition constituting the description of a single psychological observation mixed with another such proposition. In the later novels, the inner monologue is prominent. Alberto Moravia Alberto Moravia (; November 28, 1907 – September 26, 1990), born Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his debut novel ""Gli indifferenti"" (1929) and for the anti-fascist novel ""Il Conformista"" (""The Conformist""), the basis for the"
"comments on the connection (as cited by Lawrence Venuti): During World War II, Buzzati served in Africa, as a journalist attached to the Regia Marina. After the end of the war, ""Il deserto dei Tartari"" was published Italy-wide and quickly brought critical recognition and fame to the author. He married Almerina Antoniazzi in 1966, which also marked release of his last novel, ""Un amore"". In 1972, Buzzati died of cancer after a protracted illness. Buzzati began writing fiction in 1933. His works of fiction include five novels, theatre and radio plays, librettos, numerous books of short stories and poetry. His"
"engineering firm, he published the novel ""In the Penumbra"" (""En la penumbra"") in 1989. In 1990 and 1991, he published his final two works, the essay ""The Construction of the Tower of Babel"" (""La construcción de la torre de Babel"") and ""The Knight of Saxony"" (""El caballero de Sajonia""). He left the fourth volume of ""Rusty Lances"" unfinished at his death on January 5, 1993. In the 1980s, there began a very intense debate on his works that would continue after his death. The singular character of his works set his style apart from the narrativism of Spanish authors of"
"Antonietta (novel) Antonietta is a novel written by American Pulitzer-Prize winning author John Hersey. Published in 1991, the novel traces the history of the titular violin, a fictitious creation of Antonio Stradivari, recounting its usage under multiple owners interspersed with what Hersey describes as ""intermezzi"", interludes of fact. Hersey's 25th novel, it was the last he released before his death. As a novel following the history of an object, it is in the style of a popular 18th century genre termed ""novel of circulation"". The novel covers the history of the violin Antonietta from its creation by Antonio Stradivari in"
"fact, have the complete story of his adolescence. Unfortunately, the author is too old, too weary and embittered to summon up the strength to write all that."" He wrote only a fifth episode that recounts the violin recital and the beginning of Ernesto's friendship with Ilio. In August 1953 he ordered the destruction of his manuscript and the novel was left unfinished at his death in 1957. His daughter Linuccia arranged for its publication by Einaudi in 1975. Carcanet Press published an English translation by Mark Thompson in 1987, with a cover image in saturated colors of a woman walking"
"The House of Bernarda Alba The House of Bernarda Alba () is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. Commentators have often grouped it with ""Blood Wedding"" and ""Yerma"" as a ""rural trilogy"". Lorca did not include it in his plan for a ""trilogy of the Spanish land"" (which remained unfinished at the time of his murder). Lorca described the play in its subtitle as ""a drama of women in the villages of Spain"". ""The House of Bernarda Alba"" was Lorca's last play, completed on 19 June 1936, two months before Lorca's death during the Spanish Civil War."
"Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott, KCSL, OBE, OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the University of Alberta's first distinguished scholar in residence, where he taught undergraduate and graduate writing courses. He also served as Professor of Poetry at the University of Essex from 2010 to 2013. His works include the Homeric epic poem ""Omeros"" (1990), which many critics view ""as Walcott's major achievement."" In addition to winning the Nobel Prize, Walcott received many literary awards over the course of his"
"John O'Hara John Henry O'Hara (January 31, 1905 – April 11, 1970) was an American writer who earned his early literary reputation for short stories and became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with ""Appointment in Samarra"" and ""BUtterfield 8"". His work stands out among that of contemporaries for its unvarnished realism. While O'Hara's legacy as a writer is debated, his champions rank him highly among the underappreciated and unjustly neglected major American writers of the 20th century. Few college students educated after O'Hara's death in 1970 have discovered him, chiefly because he refused to allow his work"
"(despite not offering any resistance at his arrest - he was walking his dog at the time - the Messaggero newspaper described him as a dangerous terrorist) and transferred to Alessandria prison where he would remain for 10 years."" In 1999 he was moved to Bologna. A film called ""Ormai è fatta!"", directed by Enzo Monteleone appeared inspired by Horst's book. Horst himself enthusiastically approved the screenplay for the film. ""In Alessandria, he worked and dreamt at his computer that he was able to buy with the prize money from a literary competition in 1993, which he had won with"
"completed his high school education at Ankara Maarif Koleji, and his undergraduate degree at ITU School of Civic Engineering. He joined the same university as a faculty member, and became an Associate Professor in 1975. His most notable novel Tutunamayanlar was published in 1971-72, and his second novel Tehlikeli Oyunlar was published in 1973. He wrote several plays, short-stories, and a biography. He died of a tumor inside his brain in December 13, 1997 before he could complete his final great project ""Turkiye'nin Ruhu"". The literary works are now all published by Iletişim. What he had hoped would be his"
"Onitsha (novel) Onitsha is a novel by French Nobel laureate writer J. M. G. Le Clézio. It was originally published in French in 1991 and an English translation was released in 1997. Onitsha tells the story of Fintan, a young European boy who travels from Bordeaux to the port of Marseilles to sail along the coast of Africa to the mouth of the Niger River to Onitsha in colonial Nigeria with his Italian mother (nicknamed Maou) in the year 1948. Warren Motte wrote a review in World Literature Today to note that, like many of Le Clézio's writings Onitsha is"
"the death of Colin Dexter who died peacefully at his home in Oxford this morning."" Colin Dexter Norman Colin Dexter (29 September 1930 – 21 March 2017) was an English crime writer known for his ""Inspector Morse"" series of novels, which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as an ITV television series, ""Inspector Morse"", from 1987 to 2000. His characters have spawned a sequel series, ""Lewis"", and a prequel series, ""Endeavour"". Dexter was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, to Alfred and Dorothy Dexter. He had an elder brother, John, a fellow classicist, who taught Classics at The King's School,"
"The Original of Laura The Original of Laura is an incomplete novel by Vladimir Nabokov, which he was writing at the time of his death in 1977. It was finally published, after 30 years of private debate, on November 17, 2009. Nabokov had requested that the work be destroyed upon his death, but his family hesitated to carry out his wish to destroy an incomplete but perhaps important literary work. Over the next years its contents were viewed only by Nabokov's son, wife, and a few scholars. In April 2008, Nabokov's son Dmitri Nabokov announced plans to publish the work,"