Victor, Frank and Manu: the narrative voices of a journey from Turin to Bari in the company of "Baroness", an old Fiat Punto stolen at a driving school, a car with double pedals, to make it clear now that the story that peek between the lines of this edition of the book by Enrico Remmert Marsilio "roads" will have more of a guide.
Three fragments of the same soul will look angry all the way, alternating their points of view and their version of history for a route which is to Bari, but it could be to Timbuktu. Almost a world tour of several worlds, if you add up the many breaks in the spirit, the sudden acceleration of desires, faults and clashes of the words of reason. To everything there is as if you were tossed into that point, caught between Vittorio and Francesca, those no longer engaged, although neither has indicated his choice to another. A guide and lead us in this rambling trips that pass by the Po valley, you will dive Adriatic and make us jump from the Marche to Puglia, here "Manu" in its apparent simplicity: the friend, confidante, much closer to Victor that Francesca and then formally friends with it. Our Cicero will be chased by a young man far beyond the stereotype of the owner of big dogs, huge car driver and owner of oversized egos. Probably an excuse to escape, away from themselves, to be revealed at the end of the journey still there, more distant from each other, even through the sharing of some small gaps of time and judging that, perhaps, worth a life.
The final moves, you probably do not want to do and although in some passages the reader might expect a surprise narrative (which is not), it remains an interesting book.
I must point out the scene where Victor plays the cello in the snow, surrounded by mountains of salt "as tall as buildings." My mind has fled to some of the images on film Baricco Beethoven (Lesson 21), who knows if Remmert was inspired by the miracle of ways. We'd love to know ...
Good reading.
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