Malacqua by Nicola Pugliese

Author:Nicola Pugliese
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction;Italy;Naples;Napoli;Italian Literature;contemporary fiction;literary fiction;Literature in translation;translated literature;translated;translation;world literature;fiction in translation;Elena Ferrante;Neapolitan Trilogy;Neapolitan Quartet;Ali Smith;Grand Hotel;Donald Barthelme;Gadda;La Nave Nera;Giuseppe Pesce;Italo Calvino;Castel dell'Ovo;Einaudi;Tullio Pironti;La Repubblica;journalist;rain flood;deluge;sink hole;supernatural;magical realist;natural disaster
Publisher: And Other Stories Publishing
Published: 2017-10-04T16:28:28+00:00

L’Ammore è ’na palomma

ca nun vo cchiù vulà

love is a dove that no longer wishes to fly, and he became aware that inadvertently his eyes had fallen upon the twenty people present, as if personally checking their approval of a poem that was very close to his heart, but by which he was in essence not particularly convinced, in the sense that apart from the musicality of the verse it was a conceptual proposition that on more than one occasion had prompted strong doubts concerning the final and recondite significance, but why for heaven’s sake recondite?, of this poetry of his. In that brief space, his eyes rose to check beyond his glasses, and he felt a sense of unease. Because those twenty people, rather than pressing together compactly in the centre in front of him were all scattered like dust around the hall, and every one of them had chosen to sit towards the back rows of chairs, and in the end the first rows, which were the ones directly in front of his eyes, were deserted, completely deserted, and each one of those present was there on his own, as if those were not chairs but so many tiny cells without the possibility of communication. So he continued

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