Stefano Massini Libri
Stefano Massini è uno scrittore, drammaturgo e saggista italiano. La sua opera è caratterizzata da una profonda esplorazione della condizione umana e dei temi sociali. Attraverso narrazioni avvincenti e osservazioni acute, spesso approfondisce le complessità delle relazioni e i dilemmi della vita moderna. Il suo stile è sia poetico che diretto, permettendo ai lettori di connettersi profondamente con le sue storie.
The novel in verse that inspired the sensational West End and Off-Broadway play, The Lehman Trilogy is the story of a family and a company that changed the world.
"How many times have words not been enough? How many complex feelings don't have a corresponding noun that properly describes them in the dictionary? How many times has a language left us like an archer without arrows in the labyrinth of our emotions? Award winning author Stefano Massini found himself feeling this way too often. With great surprise, he began to feel that the ancient rules of language were not a flowing palette of colors he could use to paint all things, but instead a limiting force robbing him of the freedom of expression. So, he returned to the wondrous mechanism that has fed our dictionaries from time immemorial. If a word was missing, he created one. Every chapter mentions a new word that comes from a story about a real person, from Louis XIV to an American gangster. The result is a flowing, beautifully-illustrated collection of linguistic origin stories wrought from the mind of an internationally renowned storytelling icon. In doing so, Massini effectively liberates the human capacity for using language creatively, and for embracing storytelling to fine tune our way of being in the world. If the language in the dictionary doesn't feel adequate to deal with reality here and now, he inspires readers to create new words that ring true"--
Die Lehman Brothers
Ein Roman
Stefano Massinis Geschichte der Lehman Brothers als Roman – „klug, elektrisierend und leichtfüßig“. New York Times Am 11. September 1844 setzt ein Jude aus Bayern seinen Fuß in das gelobte Land Amerika. Es ist Heyum Lehmann, der sich in Henry Lehman umbenennt und ein winziges Stoffgeschäft in Alabama eröffnet, wohin ihm seine Brüder folgen. Bald wächst der Familienbetrieb in schwindelerregende Höhen, vom Baumwollhandel über andere Investitionen bis zum Giganten an der Wall Street. 2008 bricht die amerikanische Bank „Lehman Brothers“ zusammen und läutet den Kollaps des Finanzmarktes ein. Stefano Massinis international gefeiertes Buch erzählt mit sprudelndem Witz und Brecht’scher Intensität eine schillernde Auswanderergeschichte und eine unheimliche Parabel über den Kapitalismus. Sinnlich, lehrreich und spannend zugleich.
