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Something Written
Qualcosa di scritto
Emanuele Trevi (born 1964)
Translated by Ann Goldstein
English editions
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Something Written
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Rome, early 1990s: the dreams of the twentieth century are ending and Berlusconi is on his way to power. A thirty-year-old writer, cynical and naive, absent-minded and deep, takes a job at the Pier Paolo Pasolini archive, a maze of papers in a big building in the Prati district. It is ruled by Laura Betti, an irascible actress past her prime who claims to be the poet's spiritual heir and behaves as if possessed by him. Through her the young man meets Pasolini himself, and through Petrolio, the unfinished novel published in 1992, he is led towards an initiation into mysteries that will take him twice to Eleusis in Greece.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 246 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy, early 1990s
- First published
- 2012 by Ponte alle Grazie
- Author's age
- 48 when first published
- ISBN
9788862200646 (original)
9789462380806 (World Editions, Netherlands)
- More
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