“FRIDAY RE-VERSO” “We are equal, finally, equal, alien, alone.” Ursula Kroeber Le Guin—a woman who, to quote Whitman, contains multitudes. Not only because of her immense literary output, but also because of her exuberant, exuberant wealth of thought, capable of developing as many insights in a single book as an entire library. Each word is the seed of a concept that will be free to germinate in the soil of our minds: the imagery Le...
The midday thread marks the second stage of the Autobiography of Contradictions, the monumental interior journey in five stations in which the Italian author Goliarda Sapienza lays herself bare. A descent into the underworld of identity, where each page is a step towards dissolution and rebirth, in the never-ending attempt to contain an uncontrollable life. In this second volume, Sapienza narrates the delicate and tormented path of psychoanalysis undertaken with Dr. Majore following her first...
“FRIDAY RE-VERSO” “There is something about this hotel that disturbs me and holds me back. I do not understand well. I don’t try to understand better.” We don’t understand well. Let’s not try to understand better – what keeps us in this book. And yet: we are there, even if upset. Like in a dream, we don’t know how we got here, perhaps a quote, an epiphany, an involuntary movement of the soul and here...
