I am a bit 'hard work, write the reviews.
In any case, this is easy: " The ruler of Jevons - Tales of forgotten forerunners " of Paolo Albani, is a small book of short stories that are told willingly, indeed, simply reveal them for review.
are 22 very short stories (2, 3 pages) that describe precisely the imaginary characters or real life events as precursors. Stories are funny and surreal, in the form of parodies of scientific writings, historical, journalistic. As I said, is a book that reminded me immediately " Cantatrix Soprana L" of Perec (which obviously it is a precursor ).
addition to summarizing the 22 stories it would also say something about the concept of precursor, about how the great literary and artistic works (at least in modern times) create their precursors, but I would not weight. For the same reason, not by the substance, for now, the character Oulipo-but-also-fairy tales of Alban.
So, the stories: The unlikely
American physicist James Balmer-Kress ( I also would like to do an exegesis of the names mentioned / invented by Albani, closed parenthesis) in 1899 sets up an experiment to test the so-called butterfly effect. Literally. Cages tot butterflies, study a method to shake them and then checks the weather events in Indonesia, statistical evaluation of any changes. Two pioneers of Psychology
define the state of uncertainty own human being. Examples: Ring Uncertainty is doubt about whether or not to answer the phone while watching a movie or take a shower, the Meteoropatic Uncertainty describes the worry about whether or not to take the umbrella out of the house in cloudy day , etc.
Critic Reinhard Koch dedication to study and catalog Sunday painter, clearly defining the nature and individuality.
precursors but is not a beautiful and ferocious satire of the art magazine Flash Art : describes the rise to success of the magazine Cash Art (rotfl!).
Manlio Traversari is arrested for a kind of malpractice in the medical profession: he entered hospital, he wore a coat and then revealed to a visitor that he saw in him the symptoms of a deadly disease. The aim is to induce in its victims, greater care for themselves.
Peter Kien, the protagonist of the famous sinologist "Auto-da-fe " Canetti writes a " characteriology pants." The painter Schlimm writes itself a treatise: "The soul of socks", he dedicates the rest of his entire artistic career painting socks.
In 1877, Alfred Lerner & Sons, Factory English flatware, commissioned research at the Institute of Human Research "Wilfred Alcott" regarding the disappearance of flatware, or how, when and how to be a missing piece to piece cutlery set in a family.
bizarre searches (those IgNobel Awards, so to speak) have a long history and case studies (and anecdotal, especially). Among the forerunners of the kind you remember William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882), economist, author and advocate of a theory that there is a match between sunspot cycles and economic crises. The insight came to Jevons by a letter from his housekeeper ...
Antonio Polidori, Commissioner of Police in the 70s, specializes in hunting down non-killers: When is a crime in its area of \u200b\u200bcompetence, after he was found guilty, he explores the greatest possible number of people in the area of \u200b\u200bthe crime to discover - or to confess - that each is a non-murderess about that crime.
The flu strain that hit Burma in 1994, large swathes of the population with its unique symptoms at all: the Burmese induced in the loss of spatial perception and motor coordination.
poetry and life of demented Learco Pignagnoli are described by his poems and anecdotes. The Pignagnoli is not for another invention of Alban: his bizarre non-existence has been Nori amply documented by Paul and his friends in Parma (the Bogoncelli) . The precursor is indeed Pignagnoli In Bogoncello , immortalized in various fanzines 90s.
The Australian poet Norman Steele is the precursor of many writers who, at some point in their life and career, they disappear, they lose track of them. Steele, at the age of 42 years ago by a notary to draw up a Deed of Separation in which you said you did not want to have anything to do with all his friends and relatives, the notary must serve the document to all interested parties.
Sandro Bartolini is a precursor of the tabloid press invented. Among his scoops: Brigitte Bardot was a man, Walt Disney turned the first porn film in history, Churchill and George VI loved to dress up as women - together.
Mario Diacono writes The slating of works (even famous) stating that he had never read.
Mr. Salvatore Mastropasqua try to start a professional activity as a "taster words" - a precursor of overzealous editor.
Alfonsina Lots and Julian Brogi you are working to become Siamese twins - stitched together. In 1857 the little
Giampiero, Onan inveterate and unrepentant, he becomes blind. In 1823 Stefan
Norwid studies, on the ground, the Islanders Grotriand and their language, the peculiarity of this language is that opposing concepts are indicated with the same word.
Calogero Furlan is a man so sensitive that, for example, hollow corks not pierce the cork protects covered with cobwebs; track lanes on its own ground for snails; puts networks around trees where the leaves can fall without getting hurt.
Jerome Jerome exaggerates his family with all the same complaints and regularly repeated. Until one day does not stop abruptly.
The University of Genoa will hold a conference on "Happy Corsetti, a precursor of the idea of \u200b\u200bpoetry as truth . History proves him wrong.
A senior professor of Busto Arsizio founded ANPNR, National Association Recognized precursor.
