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Edition 69 (1998)

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In five short stories, the book works in a Central European key to quietly expose guilt, memory, and responsibility inside human relationships. Its restrained style makes the unease that runs through daily life stand out all the more.

Five stories quietly illuminate the weight of guilt and memory.

166 pages
guiltmemoryresponsibilityshort storiesCentral Europe

A poetry collection in which Italian, Latin, and the Cappella dialect intersect. Set in the Phlegraean Fields, where antiquity and the present overlap, it lets myth, ruins, history, and everyday voices form a single poetic world.

Three languages gather the Phlegraean landscape into a single poem.

493 pages
poetrytrilingual writingPhlegraean Fieldsmythhistory

A collection of nine essays that uses the idea of distance to move across myth, images, representation, religious history, and methods of observation. From the idea that too much closeness distorts and too much distance obscures, it reconsiders the conditions of perception and interpretation.

Distance is not an abstraction here, but a way to see the world anew.

261 pages
distanceperceptionrepresentationmythhistory