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Author: Pacifico, Francesco
Brand: ITALIAN AND FOREIGN WRITERS
Number of pages: 283
Publisher: Mondadori
Details: Product description Piero Rosini is young, has the broad shoulders of a champion, a beautiful and in love wife, a rich father, a sister ready to ferry him into the worldly universe of literary salons. But nothing in him seems to bear any trace of such carefree bourgeois fortune. Piero Rosini is a newly converted Catholic, fervent to the point of intransigence. His body has taken on the curved and soft fold of someone who is ready to mortify the flesh in order to elevate the spirit, his speeches are full of zeal. He frequented the young families of the parish, lived in a new neighborhood on the Grande Raccordo Anulare, worked at the Non Possumus publishing house for little money and for the greater glory of the faith. Hero of renunciation and sexual abstinence, nothing seems to be able to distract him from the right path. But an evening in a pub will be enough to bring down Piero's certainties. It will be enough for him to see his sister-in-law Ada dance to stop forgetting her virginal breasts. Thus, while his buried past struggles to return to the surface, while at work he finds himself increasingly cornered due to a paradoxically polemical essay against John Paul II, while his wife offers him ever more fraternal love, Piero flees. Escape to Paris, the city of every vice, where morals get lost in long discussions in cafés, where girls take you by the hand and make you go up to their house. Review Pacifico «History of my purity», between scoops and temptations. In Paris a juif blows up the newly converted Bruno Quaranta, Tuttolibri - La Stampa No, it's not Proust. His city, Rome, is "mortar-coloured", not mauve-coloured, as Marcel imagined Parma. It will be appropriate to linger within the metropolitan walls to grasp the crux of History of my purity, the second, half-happy, performance by Francesco Pacifico. Going back, why not?, to the Freudian imaginative hypothesis (here the fabula) that «Rome is not an urban settlement but a psychic entity with an equally long and varied past, an entity in which, therefore, nothing that has been created is is lost." Piero Rosini, ultra-papist, sex vade retro, happens to represent, already in the physique, awkward, thickened, the chaos that has accumulated over the centuries around the Cupolone. A potion of paganism and incense that stuns supremely. Who are we, where do we come from, where are we going? Isn't the city "a carillon with missing notes"? Isn't that the result of endless gutting? Isn't that a Swiss cheese boat? The newly converted Piero Rosini - who knows why he has become a kisser, perhaps having run out of roles, a sister who is a writer and progressive and magnetized by married men, two brothers swinging between tennis, soccer, Parioline girlfriends, few readings - ekes out a living in a reactionary publishing house, « Non Possumus», cultivating the scoop, a book on the Jewish pope, alias Karol Wojtyla. Except that, as he gradually submits the supposed, extraordinary revelation to editing, he gets to know, undergoing its charm, a certain Corrado Paloschi, aspiring writer, between Bel-Ami and Candlewick, in the drawer a politically correct yes and no novel («. .. my idea is to make fun of gays a little, nobody does it... but I'm friends with gays»). The one with Corrado (a figure who slips away in Pacifico, who hesitates to take shape, while the other characters are always one step away from abandoning the grotesque thread for comics) will be Piero Rosini's "great meeting". Failing to get the work published, the leaders of "Non Possumus" were adamant, he moved to Paris, mentally toying with the "Tette di Ada", his sister-in-law, his authentic epiphany, not even suffering from the separation from his attractive wife, Alice, very seldom tasted. In Paris, where Piero Rosini will find "working" asylum in a non-memo obscurantist Catholic publishing house, the short circuit will occur. Auspicious - speaking of great meetings - the rendezvous with juif Leo. It is the irreverent Jewish skepticism, among the Latin Quarter
EAN: 9788804594376
Release date: 2010-03-16
Package Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.0 x 1.1 inches