Clandestinity
Paperback/Fiction 192 pages English May 31, 2022
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In this four-story suite, a modern master of Italian literature delves into the wonder and strangeness of the human condition.Eerie, fabulist, and elegant, each of Moresco's stories features a central character at a different time of his life: childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. In these beautiful and unsettling narratives, a dreamlike logic governs a vivid and strange physical world. In "Blue Room," the adolescent protagonist carries on a voyeuristic relationship with a blind old woman in a mysterious house. In "The Hole," a young boy becomes fascinated by an outhouse toilet, a portal through which he observes bodily wastes, curiosities, and portents. In the title story, an act of violence deepens the nightmarish tones and mood of disorientation. And in "The King," a child narrator-who may or may not be present--witnesses a horrific visit from an exiled ruler.Full of bodily parts, functions, and desires, Moresco's stories distort time and reality to summon a world of carnal immediacy and uncanny haziness. A spectral and unnerving work of art, expertly translated by Richard Dixon, Clandestinity is a testament to Moresco's genius.
- Author:
- Antonio Moresco
- Publisher:
- Deep Vellum Publishing
- Publication Date:
- May 31, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 192 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Fiction
- ISBN-10:
- 1646051726
- ISBN-13:
- 9781646051724