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Ivan Arena

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in Messina, Italy

Website

https://ivanarena.github.io/art/

Genre

Contemporary, Poetry

Influences

Henry Miller, Georges Bataille, Ugo Foscolo, Charles Baudelaire, Fried ...more

Member Since

July 2019

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	Versi Liberi: Un concerto di linee 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ivan Arena wants to read A Walk Across Dirty Water and Straight Into Murderer's Row: a Memoir by Eugene S. Robinson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ivan Arena rated a book liked it The Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Half-hallucinatory half-documentational always-controversial account on a few mild psychedelic experiences and a junk-sick exploration of South America.
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Ivan Arena wants to read Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ivan Arena rated a book really liked it Mi madre by Georges Bataille	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ivan Arena wants to read Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927–1939 by Georges Bataille	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ivan Arena rated a book really liked it The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Absolutely incredible and particularly addictive novel. Such a clever and reference-filled work that touches everything with an always-on ironic gaze in a land of conspiracy and hallucination. How did I miss out on this for so long?
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Ivan Arena wants to read Eden Eden Eden (Lords of the Solar Church 5) by Pierre Guyotat	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ivan Arena wants to read Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ivan Arena rated a book really liked it The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Absolutely incredible and particularly addictive novel. Such a clever and reference-filled work that touches everything with an always-on ironic gaze in a land of conspiracy and hallucination. How did I miss out on this for so long?
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