As usual, Simonetta Greggio proceeds in fragments.
Each one woven like lace.
The same attention to detail, the same grace, the same false effect of transparency.
Because all this sweetness and this fragility of the suspended moment to which the Italian author excels, his voice which embraces us and overwhelms us durably reveal, barely concealed, a dazzling darkness.
Of course, Italy serves as the backdrop for
Bellissima
.
This
“repressed, refused - vomited” country
fled to Paris at the age of 20.
Italy where she is now returning, book after book.
Dolce Vita1959-1979
and
The New Monsters1978-2014.
Red Brigades and Mafia.
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With
Bellissima,
the writer takes on the pure autobiography.
The backdrop to his adolescence in Padua,
"homeland of angels and vipers, laboratory of opposing extremists"
, ideological violence is omnipresent in this city shattered in two.
On the one hand, the reds.
On the other, the turtleneck boys of the Fascist Youth Front.
For the year 1975 alone,
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