The FLR - The Florentine Literary Review is a bilingual literary magazine, the first of its kind in Italy, that publishes works by contemporary Italian authors alongside their English translations. Created in Florence in 2016 by the writer Alessandro Raveggi and the publishing house The Florentine Press, the magazine has been presented at many international fairs and festivals, and has been mentioned in prestigious magazines like Monocle, Writers without Borders, Asymptote Journal, Literary Hub and others.
THEME: Fake
FAKE: or rather, artfully counterfeited. We usually associate this word with a forgery that’s easy to unearth. Very often, however, we set out on a long journey based on news, information, lives and relationships, only to find out that there’s deception, some convincing deception at the end. Like in a novel.
Aesthetics and ethics both find a home in FAKE, which sidesteps or oversteps the pure true/false dichotomy due to its very nature. What stands in contrast to the counterfeited? The natural