By Osvaldo Guerrieri
ISBN-10: 8854503738
ISBN-13: 9788854503731
Osvaldo Guerrieri si sofferma in questo libro su dieci fotografie di scrittori e artisti consistent with svelare appunto il segreto delle loro vite.
Ecco, dunque, Luigi Pirandello nell’atto di compiere un suicidio platonico; Antonin Artaud, che nella through crucis dei suoi manicomi si fa arrostire il cervello da cinquanta elettroshock; Rina Cavalieri, «la donna più bella del mondo», che inspiegabilmente rinuncia alla seduzione e al successo artistico according to dedicarsi alla cosmesi e riuscire nella missione impossibile di rendere belle le brutte e desiderabili le scialbe; Louise Brooks, il sogno erotico di Hollywood, impegnata a odiare il cinema, a rinnegare il glamour e a trasformarsi in un vecchio cinese depositario di una indecifrabile saggezza; Ezra Pound che according to un lungo decennio cerca soldi e editori consistent with James Joyce esule disastrato e affamato; l’ingegner Carlo Emilio Gadda costretto a mettere da parte l. a. letteratura according to dedicarsi alla manutenzione delle latrine vaticane.
Dieci foto, dieci storie in cui i misfatti, le enormità, le bruciature interiori, perfettamente nascoste nel cuore di ciascuno, vengono a galla.
Dieci foto che compongono una «comédie humaine» i cui comprimari, accalcandosi intorno ai protagonisti, si chiamano Ernest Hemingway, Arthur Rimbaud, Sylvia seashore, Jean-Paul Sartre, Erich von Stroheim, Greta Garbo.
Dieci storie che propongono un guizzante, affollatissimo spaccato culturale del primo Novecento, l’epoca in cui Parigi period il centro del mondo e l’America «il nuovo che avanza».
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