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Riccardo Mazzocchio è nato a Trapani nel 1959. Neurologo e Dottore di Ricerca in Neuroscienze, vive a Siena dal 1977. Appassionato di volo libero e a vela, coltiva la scrittura come forma d’arte e introspezione. Nel 2024 ha ricevuto il Premio “Il Medico Scrittore.” Nel 2025 ha ricevuto il Premio della Critica (IV Premio Letterario Antonio Veneziano) per il romanzo Purché sia Femmina (Nulla die, 2023). Inoltre, ha pubblicato: Il tempo delle Donne (StreetLib, 2018) e Storie di Un Bambino Bizzarro (Nulla die, 2025), una raccolta di racconti autobiografici. https://nulladie.com/?s=riccardo+mazz...

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Premio della Critica per PURCHÉ SIA FEMMINA

IV PREMIO LETTERARIO ANTONIO VENEZIANO 2025
Motivazione: L'autore con indubbio merito ottiene il Premio della Critica per l'originalità della storia e per una scrittura piacevole e incisiva che introduce il lettore in una riflessione lungo pagine di ottima narrativa.

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Articles on Short Stories by Philip K. Dick, Including: Second Variety, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, Faith of Our Fathers, the Minority Report, the Variable Man, Paycheck (Short Story), Beyond Lies the Wub, Autofac

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Non è una biografia di Phil Dick - l'autore dei racconti su cui si basano Blade Runner e Atto di Forza - quanto un tentativo d'interpretare la vita dello scrittore di fantascienza anche attraverso la sua opera letteraria. Se vi piace Dick, questo lib ...more
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A tratti caotico per la mole d'informazione presentata e discussa ma molto valido come evidenza dell'ingerenza dei potentati - in questo caso occidentali - nelle vicende di altri popoli e paesi non allineati utilizzando tutti i mezzi a disposizione i ...more
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Saggio approfondito e dettagliato sulla storia di Israele e dei suoi rapporti "particolari" con l'Occidente. Molto interessante la rivisitazione dell'olocausto da parte dello scrittore. Di Gaza e dei paesi limitrofi in realtà non c'è molto, come se n ...more
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“Ora sì, ora capisco che cosa è l'uomo: è una vana fiamma che passa nella vita e incenerisce tutto ciò che tocca, e si spegne quando non ha più nulla da distruggere.”
― Grazia Deledda, Cenere

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“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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