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One morning, when Pietro Citati woke from troubled dreams…

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Charles Lambert

I’ve written about pretentious windbag Pietro Citati in the past. Enough’s enough, you might think, and I wouldn’t bring him up again if I hadn’t come across this in the back of my copy of the Gordon Burns’ novel, Alma … Continue reading →

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Punto e virgola

Posted on April 9, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Each culture gets the windbag it deserves. Italy has Pietro Citati, a man who imagines that, by writing about Kafka, Goethe, Proust, et al, he’s somehow earning his own place in the pantheon. What Citati doesn’t seem to have realised … Continue reading →

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