After last year's success, OltreConfine Festival returns to Valle Camonica and Sebino for its new edition, the eleventh. A special edition, organised by the Oltreconfine Association, which, as usual, avails itself of the artistic direction of Stefano Malosso, who will bring the best of the national cultural world to the valley from March to June, with a special focus on the world of literature.
The meeting will be moderated by
Simonetta Sciandivasci
Journalist La Stampa
It happens, in life, that the universe appears to us divided between those who are not frightened by the world and those like us, inhabited by a pain hidden beneath the skin.
For Loris, it all began as a child, when he was with his grandfather, the need to read to dispel anxieties disappeared and he learned wonderful things; now Loris is in his thirties, has made reading his profession, lives in the city and has a girlfriend. But the job is precarious, the anxiety of not living up to adulthood crushes and devours him.
Loris slips inside himself, first to defend himself, then to listen to the alarm messages his body sends him.
The evil that is not there - Giulia Caminito
There is an evil inside him, capable of taking away all hope. And while the doctors, his girlfriend and parents seem increasingly distant, Loris is left with only two allies
: social media, relief and nourishment for his ghosts, and Catastrophe, the shape-shifting creature - cat, she-wolf, friend, bride - who is
close to him in the most difficult moments, waiting for a glimmer of hope.
Winner of the Campiello Prize 2021 with L'acqua del lago non è mai dolce, translated into more than twenty countries, Giulia Caminito returns to novels with Il male che non c'è (Bompiani), through which she recounts herself and her generation, which has not suffered wars or material deprivation
but has been plagued by the loneliness of the Net and precariousness.
Her essential writing opens up in this book to a surprising dreamlike atmosphere, making hypochondria a memorable protagonist, and staging among urban buildings the dark forest in which all our most painful experiences move.
Il male che non c'ci is a book about the power of imagination and childhood, it is the novel of a descent into the underworld and the ascent back to the luminous origin to which we can all, if we wish, return.
