Racconto lungo di Lodoli, meno surreale - un po' meno - di altre sue cose; ben written, as always, with the usual clever balancing act between lyricism and irony, once again assured by the elements contained in each of unreality.
The story is thin: it is told in flashback the story of Constantine, while he is brought
around Rome at night, two figures, as he
employees of the mysterious Mad, and Constantine believed that the two are responsible to kill him. The protagonist is a restless man, simple, naive (a bit 'stupid, let's say), whose feelings Lodoli weaves through descriptions and images, along with the balance of the tongue, are the substance of this short novel
.
Constantine delivery packages for this account mysterious Mad -
presumably a kind of boss - who sends the instructions written on slips of paper with prose and sometimes bombastic philosophizing. Following Constantine was hired to take care of the park's Crazy, which can not leave the park, and are assigned a horse first, then a hawk, then a manatee in love with Constantine.
Falling in love with this siren is the situation, more than any other, highlights the conflict between the inner world, surreal, of Constantine and the crudeness of reality in which they live. In addition, this ambiguous and impossible to 'report' can not remember the relationships between the sailors and the wonderful marine life, and undefined in the cargo bay and the gulf Michele Mari.
say nothing of the outcome, even more surreal.
As I said, Lodoli continues to play with the ambiguity between writing non-stories (focusing his work on tone, atmosphere and descriptions) and the refusal to do
formalism altogether. In the night
But this balance shifts in favor of lyricism and consistency of the plot;
therefore less ironic, less invention, less fantastic situations. And the result is perhaps
weaker (compared for example to Wind ).
It is a very original way, in the Italian literary scene.
(Di Stasio Nice painting on the cover (not the worst).)
Postscript: looking back now, several years after writing this card, The night I remember it much better than it appears above. Obviously the writing is capable of leaving certain memories and certain impressions, and is not a small thing.
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