The History of Futurism by Buelens Geert Ph.D; Hendrix Harald Ph.D; Jansen Monica Ph.D & Harald Hendrix & Monica Jansen

Author:Buelens, Geert, Ph.D; Hendrix, Harald, Ph.D; Jansen, Monica, Ph.D & Harald Hendrix & Monica Jansen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1046289
Publisher: Lexington Books

Paolo is resolute if saddened by his coming end. It is, however, wholly necessary and recognized as such by both Paolo and the reader. The only real twist that Volt utilizes was in some ways necessitated as well by the need to have no loose ends at the end of the story: Marinette will color the end of the novel not with a futurist sacrifice, but with a more Shakespearean one. She follows Paolo on his final mission, stalking him through the streets as he goes to the Basilica. She pushes through the crowds, hoping that Paolo will leave the bomb and escape prior to its going off, but those hopes are quickly dashed: as Paolo approaches Abramo Lattes at the center of the basilica and activates the bomb, both he and Lattes are evidently hit by bullets fired by Lattes’s bodyguards. Marinette collapses on Paolo’s body, where she remains when the residents of Rome “saw the cupola rise up, dance in the sky like an eggshell, and fall in a rain of wreckage behind the columns of the crumbling façade.”54 Her death is not in the service of any ideal above that of love: while Paolo was completing a mission and through that mission also resolving a personal matter, Marinette is rejecting in and of itself a life without her partner. Paolo may never have understood the depths of her commitment to him, but Volt concedes him an instant of recognition prior to his death: “Paolo’s expression changed. He recognized her.”55 But the moment of realization is also the moment of destruction, liberating though it may be. Following the cupola’s dance into the sky, the novel quickly concludes with a brief epilogue that mirrors the prologue. Volt again focuses on the pope, who prays with his head to the ground as the great intergalactic fleet takes off in pursuit of the “conquest of Jupiter.”56 The world has not ended, but the revolution has taken hold.

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