A Book easily and always present on which to reflect, enjoy reading. From the Cover
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A good night's regime, which looks like a feverish Saturday night of our cities populated by gay brigades gerarchetti clarkopodi and Claretta laughing pose, "as a set of spots brut."
A strange character, a bit 'Marlowe a little' wizard, the owner of one of the oldest magic in the world, spends his nights between nostalgia and booze at the bar colossal Apocalypso.
Then the adventure: the magician Baol back to fight major hierarchy for a mission that is both an act of gratitude for a great old comedian from grace and a mysterious journey into the secret of magic Baol.
magic, love, adventure and humor surprisingly irresistible blend in this novel, in which the savage satire of the language and customs of our 'system' is accompanied by the taste of the story at breakneck speed, with a thousand variations surreal comic melancholy metaphysical.
Review of The Index (L. Genta 1990) :
"Who will be the micro-history of Italy? Maybe the satire, the parody, the imitators, the cartoonists, the mocking, the comedians." This question-answer Lietta Tornabuoni, "La Stampa", is confirmed in the last novel by Stefano Benni. "Baol" says a future so near, in June 1991, to be already present in a country such as neo-realist imagery. A sordid metropolitan landscape, bleak: murder and bloodshed, intrigue and lodges, gas clouds and silos drug tangle of cars and armies of rats. A mixture of genres dipped in black humor: a fairy tale night to Angela Carter and marlowiana a detective story, a comic book to Patience and a cartoon to Roger Rablbit, with scenes of "Blade Runner "and the circus rhythm of" Brazil ".
Melchiade Baol Bedrosian, sympathetic narrator and alter ego, is a good magician and sad, he would only want to have fun, if time permits. With the air pulls, it stands apart from the bar Apocalypso, forage and smells the danger fernet like a turtle, "and not be plugged indoors more out." But life is like the prelude to a dentist There is always a that is worse than you. "And here involved in a secret mission to save the honor of Grapatax, the prince of comedy: the Great Hierarch would turn it into a court jester, spreading a movie, of course false. We quickly penetrate Archive Zero, where tapes are kept for the Truth.
"The truth, just a little bit 'of truth for a poor old man" is the hatred of the regime and made a lie flush Baol. But perhaps our magician would not enter into action if intuisse that he can start another journey in search of his Alice, his beloved lost (there is always half of a woman), and the discovery of himself as Yedi of a "Star Wars" as a warrior of "Highlander." So, with three midgets, a pornodiva, a former world champion catch ... Going beyond
would be wrong to the reader. And then, as in many investigations chandleriane, the plot is just an outline, here is tangled, there will unravel. Benni on the other hand has never defined a novelist. The most congenial to the extent of the story. And it is a true magician of italics: acrobat of the adjective, the new word slinger, tightrope game of words, between jokes and sneers, the student spirit and bitter grin, the more hilarious irony and satire rawest.
Linnaeus is a relentless, in front of the colorful fauna of the Regime. For our entertainment (and education) through Baol, there will be easy to classify gerarchetti clarkopodi, Claretta tigraffierei, tubby blush, the socialoschi, insiders and those of Livore Liga Arctic (north of us there is none ") . So far we find the
Benni furious "manifesto" and 'Espresso'. But when it sinks in the Archives Baol Zero, Hell of the Regime, the political satire becomes ethics complaint, affects us directly. Perhaps here we are among the adoring audience, which follows with passion Repent program confessions live or play in the contest "Who has broken down" about a crashed plane in the circumstances, as they say, mysterious. Of course we are victims, conscious or otherwise, of the "composers of reality", the manufacturers of lying, the rulers who manipulate the facts in the control room, with cuts and deletions, interlocking and overlapping. If you notice most? Who will ever know the way they did "things"? Count only what makes us all look. The important thing is the Chat, so be it the Furious Controversy, just do not ask too many questions. We are also eaten satire, selling to the Supermarket of Rice. Benni moralist? "Wizards are not moralists - Baol answers - but they know where is the trick.
In his novel 1985, "Comedy Warriors," Benny said, "Success, success, success. Here, nothing happens, it's all happened." But then he added: "Our task is to prevent us from stealing words and maybe the new feed." Now Baol to be even worse: corruption, cynicism, indifference festive. Benni has become more bitter and impetuous, and yet most melancholy. And Baol remains alone in his bar, the last table left in the fund. Wait there. In the end, Drinking Fernet and have a chat with a magician may seem a bit 'long, a closed defeatist. But only if you forget that wizards, even when only a dream, they live the 'elsewhere', a utopia. At the same time speak of reality and utopia to spread the "virus of indignation" have remained very few. Singer-songwriters such as De André, comedians like Benni. Those who do not celebrate "the Sunday of remains," Who does not love the spirit of the time, "the air-set spots brut", hopes that the virus "attacks."
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