"The Fire You Carry Inside" tells the story of the life and death of Angela, a woman with an impossible character. A woman who embodies in an emblematic way all the horrors of Italy, none excluded: "the indifference, racism, classism, selfishness, opportunism, opportunism, the half-culture worse than ignorance, rancor..." This woman was the author's mother. The novel is an investigation into the life, passions and hatreds of a woman, in search of a possible explanation. The form is that of comedy, the content that of tragedy. What experience, manifest or hidden, what frustration, what hidden wound can make us so hostile, angry, refractory to any form of pacification? What reason, simple or complex, lies behind Angela's fury: the war that marked her as a child? a father who died too soon or a mother who died too late who, in turn, made her youth and maturity unhappy? an atavistic inferiority complex or belonging to the culture of the oppressed South whose reasons Angela would like to assert against the hated usurping North? Or, more simply, is the internal fire that devours her devoid of any reason like the hidden heart of a volcano? Antonio Franchini, with mastery and measure, excess and discretion, has written a novel-memoir populated by characters that surround a protagonist who is always at the center of the scene. An excessive and unpredictable heroine, capable of alternating dramatic and obsessive tones with decidedly comic moments. It is a story that mixes Eduardian comedy with chthonic fury, the urgency of a visceral outburst with the studied cadences of a staging, of a real performance.
"The Fire You Carry Inside" tells the story of the life and death of Angela, a woman with an impossible character. A woman who embodies in an emblematic way all the horrors of Italy, none excluded: "the indifference, racism, classism, selfishness, opportunism, opportunism, the half-culture worse than ignorance, rancor..." This woman was the author's mother. The novel is an investigation into the life, passions and hatreds of a woman, in search of a possible explanation. The form is that of comedy, the content that of tragedy. What experience, manifest or hidden, what frustration, what hidden wound can make us so hostile, angry, refractory to any form of pacification? What reason, simple or complex, lies behind Angela's fury: the war that marked her as a child? a father who died too soon or a mother who died too late who, in turn, made her youth and maturity unhappy? an atavistic inferiority complex or belonging to the culture of the oppressed South whose reasons Angela would like to assert against the hated usurping North? Or, more simply, is the internal fire that devours her devoid of any reason like the hidden heart of a volcano? Antonio Franchini, with mastery and measure, excess and discretion, has written a novel-memoir populated by characters that surround a protagonist who is always at the center of the scene. An excessive and unpredictable heroine, capable of alternating dramatic and obsessive tones with decidedly comic moments. It is a story that mixes Eduardian comedy with chthonic fury, the urgency of a visceral outburst with the studied cadences of a staging, of a real performance.
"The Fire You Carry Inside" tells the story of the life and death of Angela, a woman with an impossible character. A woman who embodies in an emblematic way all the horrors of Italy, none excluded: "the indifference, racism, classism, selfishness, opportunism, opportunism, the half-culture worse than ignorance, rancor..." This woman was the author's mother. The novel is an investigation into the life, passions and hatreds of a woman, in search of a possible explanation. The form is that of comedy, the content that of tragedy. What experience, manifest or hidden, what frustration, what hidden wound can make us so hostile, angry, refractory to any form of pacification? What reason, simple or complex, lies behind Angela's fury: the war that marked her as a child? a father who died too soon or a mother who died too late who, in turn, made her youth and maturity unhappy? an atavistic inferiority complex or belonging to the culture of the oppressed South whose reasons Angela would like to assert against the hated usurping North? Or, more simply, is the internal fire that devours her devoid of any reason like the hidden heart of a volcano? Antonio Franchini, with mastery and measure, excess and discretion, has written a novel-memoir populated by characters that surround a protagonist who is always at the center of the scene. An excessive and unpredictable heroine, capable of alternating dramatic and obsessive tones with decidedly comic moments. It is a story that mixes Eduardian comedy with chthonic fury, the urgency of a visceral outburst with the studied cadences of a staging, of a real performance.
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