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“The Teetering” (title translated by AI)
Alcide Pierantozzi (born 1985)
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Alcide is forty and sometimes still sleeps beside his mother. For him reality frays and lets hallucination in; fear grips him and his breath grows short, and the only way he can live is on a precipice, in the 'teetering' of things. Telling this from the inside, the narrator names precisely a malaise shared by many: mental suffering, alienation, medication and loneliness. Between waves of pain and moments of clarity, the story moves between the collapse of the mind, the people and animals around him, and the hope that words can act as a kind of cure.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 232 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2025 by Einaudi
- Author's age
- 40 when first published
- ISBN
9788806266448 (original)