TheFLR. The Florentine Literary Review. Issue 2 Desire/Desiderio

TheFLR The Florentine Literary Review is a new magazine from The Florentine featuring engaging and entertaining short stories, plus two collectible poems. Tales and verses by Italian authors will be published for the first time alongside the finest English translations. A further layer of interpretation will be provided by the illustrations commissioned for each issue from a contemporary artist.

Issue 2 details

THEME: Desiderio / Desire
Where does DESIRE come from? Is it a matter of the heart and head or more of a gut instinct? How can we relate to this word so contemporary yet so twentieth century, so distant?
These days, talking about DESIRE not only means talking about erotica and sensuality, appetites and tendencies (although they would be perfectly at home in the “summer” edition of our literary magazine!), but also all the apertures surrounding the theme: social frustration, emotional atrophy, generational ambition, new ways at looking at the stars before the universe implodes… DESIRE is also the lack thereof: desire like a sun-soaked nudist beach and Morel’s invention, like a square crowded with masses exultant for the wrong candidate, a phone call interrupted by a stalker, or plans for a new space mission in your backyard.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• ROSSARI The Person Next to Her / La persona accanto
• SARCHI  Spheres / Sfere
• FRANZOSINI 17,000,000 Words / 17.000.000 di parole
• ANEDDA Space / Spazio
• TUROLO Craving / Craving
• PIERANTOZZI Insects on paper / Insetti sulla carta
• DURASTANTI My phone calls were short / Le mie telefonate erano brevi
• NELLI Wild / Wild

AUTHORS:
Authors: Marco Rossari, Alessandra Sarchi, Sergio Nelli, Alcide Pierantozzi, Edgardo Franzosini, Claudia Durastanti, Antonio Turolo and Antonella Anedda.

Directed by Alessandro Raveggi
Illustrations by Adam Tempesta
Translations Anne Milano Appel, Johanna Bishop