reviewed. User manual 
User manual is a subtitle misleads those who decide to buy this book. Yes, because the player believes he has in his hands a booklet that it provides practical tips for writing a "good" review and instead, taking the reading, he discovers that it is not. Reviewing is nothing but a talk by living on the review and literary criticism; is the author's view, his opinion on this or that famous critic. So, if you're a novice reviewers, or aspiring, and read this book thinking to draw practical lessons, know that you astray. Do not be fooled by the title and especially the subtitle (I had been in Massimo Onofri, or his, I would have titled this essay review on ).
The author shows off an obscure language to express simple concepts, which makes it boring, unnecessarily cumbersome and in some ways a little 'nasty.
Reviewing is a book for you if you have a solid basic knowledge of Italian literature and those is an avid reader of literary magazines. It is a reading that may be of interest - or irritating, depending on the taste - who does the reviewer by profession and a long time.
without infamy and without praise.
Massimo Onofri (pictured right) was born in Viterbo September 13, 1961. He graduated in Moral Philosophy at the University of Rome La Sapienza. In 1994 he obtained a Ph.D. in Italian Studies. He currently teaches literary criticism and contemporary Italian literature at the University of Sassari. Collaborate with Index , La Stampa , New Topics , Future and regional newspapers L'Espresso Group. For years he held a fiction book reviews on Italian weekly Diario . He is a member of the editorial board of Gaff and editorial consultant for other publishers. He is the author of numerous essays and prefaces.
RATING: 3 / 5
Title: review. User manual
Author: Massimo Onofri
Publisher: Donzelli (necklace Saggini)
Year: 2008
CEMETERIES. Stories of regrets and madness 
Chiariamolo now: this is not a book of horror. Let's stop looking at the cemetery as a place macabre. The cemetery is a kingdom of peace and silence. The dead are not afraid (I'd rather look at me from the living ...). Georges Clemenceau said that "the graveyards are full of indispensable people" and I would add "interesting." Yeah, interesting how many people in life are sleeping the eternal sleep in the cold cemetery vaults. Stories of life (and death) that is worth telling. Giuseppe Marcenaro This must have thought when he decided to write Cemeteries , a collection of anecdotes and curious about death, burial, but also the lives of famous and lesser-known past to a better life: from Napoleon to Garibaldi, Brecht, Benjamin, from Shelley to Valery, from Stevenson, Poe, from Winckelmann to Rasputin, the Romanovs to Marx. Besides these and other famous names, those people are almost unknown but have lived extraordinary lives or has made special achievements. Just to name a few: the valiant John Martin (born Giovanni Martini), the disturbing and Jerome Segato Efisio Marini, the fierce Billy the Kid, the rash Calamity Jane. Some chapters, however, are completely dedicated to famous cemeteries such as Poggioreale in Naples, the Jewish Prague, the Père-Lachaise in Paris, to the Necropolis of Qaytbay, Egypt, the city cemetery where the living-living with the dead. Giuseppe Marcenaro
style is refined (refined as is the cover of the book, retro), the irony with which a subject is grim as death is slim and elegant old-school journalist. This text presents the cemetery as a place of regret and madness. Regret for those who are no more, because it is folly to be considered madness to want to exorcise and expel through the cult of the dead and the magnificence of the tombs, the terror of the inevitable: death. A book caught
and original. For those who want to learn, for those who want to understand, for those who want to reflect on the ephemeral and the eternal fullness of life void of death.
Giuseppe Marcenaro (pictured right) was born in Genoa in 1952. Writer, historian, art critic, journalist. Collaborate with La Stampa and Il Secolo XIX. Many of his articles have appeared in major newspapers and magazines such as The European , Epoca, L'Espresso , Meridiani , Capital . From 1975 to 1984 he directed the magazine of literature, history and philosophy Stones. Tiene courses and seminars in various Italian and foreign universities. He arranged with the artist, director and actor Peter Borage exhibitions of art and literature. He has published several books and has edited several biographies including that of Eugenio Montale and that of John Ansaldo.
RATING: 5 / 5
Title: Cemeteries. Stories of regrets and madness
Author: Giuseppe Marcenaro
Publisher: Addison
Year: 2008
User manual is a subtitle misleads those who decide to buy this book. Yes, because the player believes he has in his hands a booklet that it provides practical tips for writing a "good" review and instead, taking the reading, he discovers that it is not. Reviewing is nothing but a talk by living on the review and literary criticism; is the author's view, his opinion on this or that famous critic. So, if you're a novice reviewers, or aspiring, and read this book thinking to draw practical lessons, know that you astray. Do not be fooled by the title and especially the subtitle (I had been in Massimo Onofri, or his, I would have titled this essay review on ). 
Massimo Onofri (pictured right) was born in Viterbo September 13, 1961. He graduated in Moral Philosophy at the University of Rome La Sapienza. In 1994 he obtained a Ph.D. in Italian Studies. He currently teaches literary criticism and contemporary Italian literature at the University of Sassari. Collaborate with Index , La Stampa , New Topics , Future and regional newspapers L'Espresso Group. For years he held a fiction book reviews on Italian weekly Diario . He is a member of the editorial board of Gaff and editorial consultant for other publishers. He is the author of numerous essays and prefaces. 
