Ebook {Epub PDF} Cocaine by Pitigrilli

"Cocaine is a brilliant black comedy that belongs on the same shelf as Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies and Dawn Powell's The Wicked Pavilion." - Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City and Brightness Falls " Pitigrilli was an enjoyable writer - spicy and rapid - light lightning." - Umberto Eco "The name of the author Pitigrilli is so well known in Italy as to be almost a byword for /5(10). En Cocaine, quizás su esfuerzo más exitoso en una narrativa sostenida, Pitigrilli describe un mundo de guaridas de cocaína, salas de juego, orgías y entretenimiento lascivo. Su personaje principal, Tito Arnaudi, va a París y se ve arrastrado por laEstimated Reading Time: 9 mins. Paris in the s – dizzy and decadent. Where a young man can make a fortune with his wits unless he is led into temptation. Cocaine ’s dandified hero Tito Arnaudi invents lurid scandals and gruesome deaths, and sells these stories to the newspapers. But his own life becomes even more outrageous than his press reports when he acquires three demanding mistresses.

Elegant, witty, and wicked, Pitigrilli's classic novel was first published in Italian in and captures the lure of a bygone era even as it charts the comical tragedy of a young man's downfall. The novel's descriptions of sex and drug use prompted church authorities to place Cocaine on a list of forbidden books, while filmmaker Rainer Werner. Cocaine - Kindle edition by Pitigrilli, Mosbacher, Eric, Stille, Alexander. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Cocaine. From Cocaine to Fascism. Behind s Italy's official façade of bourgeois morality, Pitigrilli's novels described a world driven by sex, power, and greed. Mussolini was a fan. The modern Catholic Church has failed to grasp what its founders understood quite well. Alexander Stille is San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia.

Elegant, witty, and wicked, Pitigrilli's classic novel was first published in Italian in and captures the lure of a bygone era even as it charts the comical tragedy of a young man's downfall. The novel's descriptions of sex and drug use prompted church authorities to place Cocaine on a list of forbidden books, while filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder wrote a screenplay based on the tale. Pitigrilli was the pseudonym for Dino Segre (9 May - 8 May ), an Italian writer who made his living as a journalist and novelist. His most noted novel was Cocaïne (), published under his pseudonym and placed on the "forbidden books" list by the Catholic Church because of his treatment of drug use and sex. Pitigrilli's Cocaine is the story of Tito Arnaudi, an Italian twenty-something who is a man of his times -- the decadent and amoral post-war period that isn't the fin de siècle but rather the end of all of them. This is a novel that was published in and yet barely offers a clue that a war just recently took place; its hedonistic protagonist not only doesn't care much about political and social issues, he's barely even aware of them.