Taccuino delle piccole occupazioni
by Graziano Graziani
Tunué, 2020
228 pages
15×21 cm
A novel about missed opportunities. Through its fractured structure it questions the readers about chance, the simultaneity of events, and about how an absolute concept of Time cannot be imagined. Graziani’s intermittent character Girolamo reminds us of a contemporary Italo Calvino’s Palomar.
Girolamo spends his days overthinking and making philosophical observations about the world around him. Thinking and talking to himself, he never stops questioning reality, the ever-changing city around him and the varied kinds of creatures that inhabit it. In this meditative biography, Girolamo, like all of us, lives many lives and restlessly tries to find a center of gravity around which his life could find its balance. His only guiding star is Viola, a woman with which he fell in and out of love several times and that embodies the chance of living a different life, a life with a purpose and a direction. But she’s impossible to catch, like a ghost disappearing in the mist. And Girolamo too, born on February 29th, a day that exists only once in 4 years, has the impression to be living an intermittent existence.
«This book is a vortex that reminds us of the writings of Zavattini or Soldati. While reading about Girolamo it’s almost natural to superimpose to his name, our own.»
Valerio Millefoglie, Il Venerdì
«Girolamo has all the features of today’s men, he is the voice of a generation that lost all its landmarks and responded to chaos with cynicism and resentment.»
Giacomo De Rinaldis, Il rifugio dell’Ircocervo
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Graziano Graziani is a writer and a theatre critic. He hosts the radio shows Fahrenheit and Tre Soldi on the Italian national radio channel Radio 3 and he’s the author of the cultural tv show Memo broadcasted on Rai 5. He’s the Editor in chief of the theatre magazine Quaderni del Teatro di Roma. He also collaborated with the magazines Paese Sera, Frigidaire, Il Nuovo Male, Carta and several others. He published several essays about theatre, a narrative journalism report about microstates and micronations (Stati d’eccezione, Edizioni dell’Asino 2012) and a novel, Esperia, published by Gaffi in 2008.
