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Antonio Moresco

    October 30, 1947

    Antonio Moresco stands among Italy's foremost contemporary writers, with a body of work that delves into profound human themes and explores the complexities of existence. He draws readers into his narratives with a distinctive style and a penetrating insight into the human psyche. His writing is renowned for its intensity and its capacity to evoke powerful emotions, earning him critical acclaim and a dedicated readership.

    Antonio Moresco
    Aufbrüche
    Onkel Demostene oder Die Geschichte meiner wilden Vagabundenfamilie
    Holden Maps / Scuola Holden - 15: Lo sbrego
    Fiaba d'amore
    Distant Light
    Clandestinity
    • In this four-story suite, a modern master of Italian literature delves into the wonder, grotesquery, strangeness, and desire of the human condition. Combining and distorting elements of fables, fairy tales, and the alienating force of society, each of Moresco's stories features the central character at a different time of his life: childhood, adolescence, young adulthood. In these beautiful and unsettling narratives, a vivid physical world can't hide the strangeness of surroundings and the dream-like logic governing events. In "Blue Room," the adolescent protagonist carries on a voyeuristic relationship with a blind old woman in a mysterious clinic. In the title story, a stunning act of violence deepens the nightmarish tones and the protagonist's disorientation. Moresco's stories, full of bodily parts, functions, and desires, present a world where physical curiosity competes with shame, and the price of watchfulness is the secrecy and loneliness of isolation.

      Clandestinity
    • Distant Light

      • 153 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      3.7(53)Add rating

      A man lives in total solitude in an abandoned mountain village. But each night, at the same hour, a mysterious distant light appears on the far side of the valley and disturbs his isolation. What is it? Someone in another deserted village? A forgotten street lamp? An alien being? Finally the man is driven to discover its source. He finds a young boy who also lives alone, in a house in the middle of the forest. But who really is this child? The answer at the secret heart of this novel is both uncanny and profoundly touching. Antonio Moresco's "Little Prince" is a moving meditation on life and the universe we inhabit. Moresco reflects on the solitude and pain of existence, but also on what we share with all around us, living and dead.

      Distant Light
    • Antonio Moresco, ein 76-jähriger italienischer Autor, kämpfte zeitlebens gegen Verlage und literarische Grenzen. Sein Werk ist geprägt von kultureller Antithese und Auflehnung. Tobias Eisermann präsentiert mit "Onkel Demostene oder Die Geschichte meiner wilden Vagabundenfamilie" ein vielschichtiges Werk, das Biografie und zeitgeschichtliche Analyse vereint.

      Onkel Demostene oder Die Geschichte meiner wilden Vagabundenfamilie