NOVELS
The dead want their story told, says Margaret Atwood, and it is so true. Those afflicted by the need to write are deafened by the calls of the dead who want to speak, and terrified by the injustice of oblivion.
OUT OF HEAVEN
Two twins, a brother and a sister. He tells their story. Of when they were young and each found their respective loves. Of her fatal illness. Of the loss of dreams and hope. Of pain. Of her death and his difficult path to adulthood.
LOVE IN THE PALM OF THE HAND
It’s the sixties. A young, newly graduated psychiatrist is treating a young woman declared incurable and locked up in a mental institution. He falls deeply in love with her and, seemingly fruitlessly, attempts to cure her. Both medical authorities and her family attempt to stop him.
Their stories are rooted in the Italian tragedies of the first half of the 20thcentury: The age of extremes, an era of enormous calamities.
39 STRIKES OF A DAGGER
Sicily, first half of the 19th century. A woman, belonging to the Princes under the Volcano, the British merchants which owned much of the riches of the island at the time, is murdered. Butchered in her own villa.
A Sicilian girl, lover to the victim’s husband and tutoress of their children, is accused of the murder. At the same time, the victim’s daughter declares herself guilty of having killed her mother.
A young attorney starts to investigate what will become, for him, a descent into hell.
THE DECADENT POETS
​An anthology born from unending readings and difficult choices. I was very young and mesmerized by the poetics of “Group 63”. At the same time, I was attracted by this literary movement, a mix between aesthetics and desperation. Artists radically breaking with the past, confrontational, disgusted by bourgeois values. As the twentieth century approaches, these artists no longer trust in mankind.
