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Il visionario

“The Visionary” (title translated by AI)

Franco Matteucci

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Tullio Cusman is an orphan, taciturn and handsome, haunted by a 'Horrid Cosmos', an evil that rules human behaviour from the depths of the mind; to discharge the tension he does dozens of push-ups. Growing up, he becomes a television man of an extreme kind: creative director of Funeral News, a satellite channel devoted to broadcasting death. Unable to feel part of a family or a society, he comes to see the world through the eyes of television. Then he meets a young woman, Gaia, and falls in love with her, but her sweetness seems to belong to the same darkness that torments him, and his dream of a family begins to fall apart.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

182 pages in the original

First published

2002 by Baldini & Castoldi

ISBN

9788884902610 (original)