Life is not a fairy tale. It 'a truth that is palpable every day in both small and large things, everywhere, where fatigue, job insecurity, the frustrations continue, almost daily failures than the illusion of happiness, almost magical, easy to achieve with just a flick of the wand or the intervention of a genius on the spot ready to satisfy your desires and endless impossible.
Life is very different. Fairy tales help to dream, to grow, to believe, to build an imaginary in which cultivate their own fantasies of escape to distant worlds, but have little, very little, with the dirt road with the lights out, full of potholes, up hills, you have to go through. Life is a whole different kettle of fish.
"And they all died happily ever after" is a title quite funny, bubbly, but also ironic piccatamente clearly and distinctly bitter, dark, mocking, fits perfectly to push to open the book with curiosity and transport the first the title, then cover and then raise the back cover. But looking at the content, which requires an attentive participation, active, deep the person who immerses himself in his reading.
E 'an ambitious reinterpretation of a modern fairy tale that does not include the most' in this case, all the typical features such childish but is open to a different reading, mature, reflective and critical issues involving the most ' compelling in today's society.
took part in the project editor of New Issues, young Italian designers who are hungry for writing, who have pigeonholed a little bit each of its writing style, their own ingenuity, his own vision of reality, in a varied collage of different literary coloring that may 'not to attract the attention of the reader. Cosi ', go from one story to another, it means you go from one story to another but also from one type of writing to another, from one personality to another, from one point of view to more. And it is an absolutely fascinating and intriguing journey for the reader who feels as a citizen to travel to different worlds just flipping through the pages, suddenly finding himself in a place other than the route previously.
is not fun and a happy ending, contentment, emotional relaxation because you can 'laugh, fly with the fantasy and escape when you touch them serious and challenging issues related to our days as episodes of the news, politics, religion, battles with moral and existential inner self.
The Cinderella will be painted here today in Milan as a teenager rather bored, alone, left to itself in a city, Milan, it seems clear that the person in view of a bundle of personality, almost industrial.
Tom Thumb is a severe disability who suddenly loses everything 'in which he lived, and was soon sent into oblivion by a society that struggles to accept the handicapped and other.
The Little Match Girl is none other than a prostitute with a history of physically colossal behind despite its tragic and regrettable, now devoid of any shred of certainty and a future to plan, bleak in its precarious existence to say the least, hurt by a terrible childhood and an even worse that this will lead to a horrible end.
Sleeping Beauty is a woman, 33, wounded psychologically (and not) from a shocking event, and lose their life, their world, their future, while still alive (so to speak) and search in all ways of giving what 'that has not been able to live as he wished, his Romanian caregiver who had the delicate task of nurturing and caring for her.
Beauty and the Beast tells the story of a boy rather insignificant, ugly, with little personality, he encounters a miracle a fantastic girl, who will abandon him shortly after his father's company will continue to march after a very serious economic crisis that has threatened to send them broke. The boy then weave the most revenge 'tiny, irreversible excruciating.
This really great collection, composed of 18 short stories all carefully selected by a large reservoir of most written between 'disparate received by the publishing house, the intent is not to impress with special effects or to give the reader a Another world of dreams and a happy ending, an alternative to reality, but the goal altro non è che quello di prendere atto del fatto che i cattivi delle fiabe, l’antieroe, è ravvisabile in ogni momento della nostra vita di tutti i giorni: al citofono truffatori che cercano di adescare vecchiette a ingannevoli associazioni, automobilisti che ti inseguono fino a casa se in un viale hai tagliato loro la strada, un collega di lavoro che trama alle tue spalle per farsi migliore agli occhi del proprio capo, vicini di casa apparentemente normali che spargono da un giorno all’altro il loro appartamento del sangue dell’altro, amici che ti offrono sostanze stupefacenti e cosi’ via. L’elenco sarebbe interminabile.
Racconti, alcuni divertenti, altri dal retrogusto amaro, other grotesque, cynical or even simply as a guide to real events that lead to lethal consequences. In short, a catalog of characters, settings, reports that alert the reader to forget about the stories according to what is their common meaning and prepare to welcome a network of posts that link to provoke some emotional reaction in most readers' deep a simple laugh.
not sweeten the pill by reading this book, even if you can sour taste other bitter, bitter sull'immanente alarmed and imminent danger in which, often unconsciously, we have to do in every moment of our, apparently, harmless and predictable routine of work, shopping, attending friends and free time. Feeling safe and secure is a fairy tale. The stability and peaceful coexistence with the world is an illusory dream, always as' really threatened by unseen forces ready to strike and unpredictable, often in times, places and persons whom you least expect it.
The happy ending is not denied a priori, and God forbid, but is not predetermined, discounted, it must be built step by step, starting with ourselves. The happy ending is always something partial, measured per time per experience, because life itself, which flows into the death, not for obvious reasons, the happy ending. The Life is not a fairy tale from happy ending already written, is indeed a wonderful opportunity to live and tell themselves, holding out brick by brick to build something important, consistent with the catch of the unexpected that in some ways the most flavor everything we are, say and do in our small, difficult, complicated lives.
Price: € 13.00 ISBN: 978-88-96176-00-9
Pages: 288
Format: 14x20
Website: www.neoedizioni.it/neo/