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Preserving Knowledge
and Promoting Reading

Preserving Knowledge
and Promoting Reading

The first Pirelli library was set up in 1928, when a subscription library with 800 books was made available to personnel who were members of the Dopolavoro Aziende Pirelli, the workers’ club. It was one of the first examples of a company promoting reading and the start of long tradition that Pirelli has continued to this day with company libraries in the Headquarters at Milano Bicocca, in the factory in Bollate and in the Industrial Centre in ​​Settimo Torinese. But there is more, for the company has also been collecting scientific texts for over a century, and these now form part of the Scientific and Technical Library at the Pirelli Foundation. The panorama of Pirelli libraries ends with the Pirelli Foundation Library, which has books ranging from the history of the company to corporate communication.

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Maus
One of the most beautiful stories ever told about the Holocaust. Art Spiegelman begins by narrating the life of his father, Vladek, a Polish Jew who escaped imprisonment in the concentration camps, and his conflictual relationship with him. Maus is not solely focused on the Shoah, however – above all,...
it's a story about people, the story of a relationship between father and son that also encompasses that tragic historical period, which is successfully described through real words and events that go straight to the heart of readers, also thanks to the great attention to detail paid to both illustrations and dialogues. The characters are represented like animals: the Nazis are cats who sadistically play with their prey, Jewish people are mice while Polish people are pigs. An allegorical representation that doesn't detract from the tragedy but impels us to reflect on the symbolic codes that had in fact been adopted by the Nazis, who referred to Jewish people as rats or parasites to be exterminated. The story unravels over two interwoven temporal planes: the author's present, when the father narrates, with difficulty, his life story to the son – a deeply painful memory and a heavy heritage for Art – and then the past, the years lived by Vlodek before and during the Second World War. Maus is a great literary work, as well as the first graphic novel to have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize – a must-read, so as to never forget.  

Maus
Art Spiegelman
Einaudi, 2010

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Fëdor Dostoevskij
Fëdor Michajlovič Dostoevskij was born in Moscow on 11 November 1821 and died in Saint Petersburg on 9 February 1881. The great author represents, together with Tolstoij, the all-time pinnacle of Russian literature. In 1849, Dostoevskij was arrested and sentenced to death, and was pardoned at the very last moment;...
Fëdor Michajlovič Dostoevskij was born in Moscow on 11 November 1821 and died in Saint Petersburg on 9 February 1881. The great author represents, together with Tolstoij, the all-time pinnacle of Russian literature. In 1849, Dostoevskij was arrested and sentenced to death, and was pardoned at the very last moment; this experience deeply affected him and led to some reflections on the death penalty in his following novels, especially in Crime and punishment and The idiot. Amongst his other works stand out The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the underground, The gambler and Demons.

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