Edoardo Albinati Orden de los libros

Schachmatt durch Dame? Erri und Clementina verbringen ein Wochenende auf einer kleinen Insel im Mittelmeer. Beide sind sie verheiratet, aber nicht mit einander. Die gestohlenen Momente dieser Tage erscheinen ihnen überdeutlich, übergroß... Was zieht einen hin zu einem Menschen, den man eigentlich kaum kennt? Was wird aus so einer Liebe? Präzise, ja ungerührt schildert Albinati eher einen Kampf als die Verschmelzung von Körpern und Seelen. Er lässt seine Helden Zug um Zug erzählen und enthüllt dabei, wie es zu ihrer Verbindung kam, aber auch die Koffer, die sie jeweils am Quai stehen ließen. Ob man eine Affäre hatte, vielleicht gern eine hätte, oder schon die Idee entrüstet ablehnt - in diesem Roman findet sich jeder liebende Mensch wieder.

A novel that takes the reader into a closed world of privilege and tradition: for fans of crime fiction, but also true crime - a study of class, religion, and how a worldview which sees violence as an integral part of masculinity, and any empowerment of women as a threat to men's dominance, can only end in tragedy.

Through the special light of Rome and the reversal of its values, Delogu narrates its timeless dimension beyond space. A reversal which shows the excess of light which have made these daytime photos “blind”, where everything has been swallowed up by the white, as if it were the dark of night, where only signs hanging in the void have remained which tell more than they show. In the landscapes illuminated only by the faint light of the moon, the night-time photos, things appear at the limit of their physical presence, brushed by the subtle and unsure light of the moon, as if about to disappear. In both cases we are faced with “apparitions” rather than images. As in the hazy contours of a dream, everything here loses physicality, filled with light or barely discernible in the half light of a slightly blurred image. A dream-like dimension which makes everything unreal, suspended in time and space. […] This is the Rome of Marco Delogu where “the night has become day and the day has become night”. The reverse polarity of a light and of a place which reverses time and space and where the light and the legend, the history and the nature, swallow up reality and transform it into a great apparition

Concepito e scritto nel 1948-1949, "Il sogno di una cosa" viene pubblicato solo nel 1962. Così si trova ad essere, al tempo stesso, romanzo d'esordio e di conclusione, cartone preparatorio di una stagione narrativa e ripensamento finale sulla validità di quell'esperimento. Tre ragazzi friulani alla soglia dei vent'anni vivono la loro breve giovinezza e affrontano il mondo: la miseria delle origini, la fuga in Jugoslavia, le lotte contadine, l'emigrazione..., ma anche l'amicizia, l'amore, la solidarietà. Si comincia con l'ebbrezza di una festa, si finisce con la tristezza di una morte: "la meglio gioventù" è già conclusa.