“Dogs, alarms, babies, werewolves – those who make noise are unaware of the others, the legendary figures that evidently no one ever considers. Yet they exist, just as there is an inhabited world around us, that this book has the ambition to bring to light”.
The harmful against the harmless: we live under the zodiac sign of the Abuse, immersed in an imperceptible dust of injustice. Just think about the continuous sound aggressions, the exhausting acoustic alarms, the endless requests the administrations use to harass us with impunity.
In these furious and paradoxical pages, Valerio Magrelli traces the dark genealogy of arrogance, to urge the defence of some forgotten rights.
Valerio Magrelli
Valerio Magrelli (born in Rome) is a tenured professor of French literature at the University of Cassino. He has published four monographs: Profilo del dada (1990), La casa del pensiero. Introduzione all’opera di Joseph Joubert (1995), Vedersi vedersi. Modelli e circuiti visivi nell’opera di Paul Valéry (2002, Prix Littéraire de Francesistica des Thermes de Saint-Vincent, l’Harmattan 2005) and Nero sonetto solubile. Dieci autori riscrivono una poesia di Baudelaire (2010). Some of his most recent works are Geologia di un padre (2013), Il sangue amaro (2014), La lingua restaurata e una polemica. Otto sonetti a Londra (2014), Millennium poetry. Viaggio sentimentale nella poesia italiana (2015), Lo sciamano di famiglia. Omeopatia, pornografia, regia in 77 disegni di Fellini (2015), Le cavie. Poesie 1980-2018 (2018), Il commissario Magrelli (2018, Premio Nazionale Elio Pagliarani 2019), La vicevita (2009; 2019) Sopruso: istruzioni per l’uso (2019), Exfanzia (2022), Proust e Céline (2022). He had a short story featured in the collection Contro Roma (2018). He directed the trilingual series Writers Translated by Writers (National Award for Translation 1996). In 2019 he won the Premio Mauro Maconi for poetry, in 2022 Premio Cilento Poesia.
- Sopruso: istruzioni per l’uso (Abuse: instruction manual)
- La vicevita (The Vice-Life)
- Il commissario Magrelli (Police Commissioner Magrelli)