The modern city as a labyrinth which, beyond the physical built environment of streets, squares, motorways, ports and breakwaters, reaches out into the minds of its inhabitants.
The nightlife, alcohol, and drugs, compound the sensation of unreality or of supereality. The protagonist searches for his place in this changing world, among the ruins of the industrial past and intangible reality. He is torn between two women who, as in baroque allegories, represent dangerous adventure and mental stability.
Projections, accidents, repeating loops of images, mix with everyday life. Visions of deserts, catastrophes and floods, are mental projections of the protagonists’ feelings of orphanhood, together with the recurring idea of ice, of the ice age: the glaciation of the hopes and feelings which defines our era.
Forty independent pieces, with a connecting thread, in the same style as some of Italo Calvino’s books, which can be read as a novel made up of short stories.
A concise, clear writer, as intense as an electric shock.
The work finishes with a longer piece, inspired by the 1974 Brian de Palma film, Phantom of the Paradise.