Translator’s note: Shiro Kuramata, Miss Blanche Chair (1988), paper flowers, acrylic resin, and aluminum.
Translator’s note: A group of designers specializing in the use of plastic materials.
Translator’s note: This is a reference to Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies (Grove Press, 2006), 179.
Translator’s note: This is a reference to Samuel Beckett, Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment (Grove Press, 1984), 49.
Translator’s note: This is a reference to Samuel Beckett, Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Grove Press, 2009), 392.
Translator’s note: This paraphrases Beckett, Three Novels, 27.
Dante, The Paradiso, trans. John Ciardi (Penguin), lines 100–105.
Dante, The Paradiso, lines 100–105.
Dante, The Paradiso, lines 58–63.
Dante, The Paradiso, lines 118–20.
Dante, The Paradiso, lines 115-23.
Translator’s note: From the Latin “Let there be light.”
Excerpted from Morte ai Vecchi (Baldini & Castoldi, 2016). This excerpt is translated from the Italian by Deborah Wassertzug. Illustrations commissioned by the authors. All illustrations by Flavio Marziano, unless otherwise noted.