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Panorama
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A broken epistolary relationship, a woman suddenly disappeared, the void caused by absence. This is how this novel was born, which through the refined and melancholic voice of Tommaso Pincio makes us look at the world, present and future, without any rhetoric, discover fears and fragilities, hopes and disillusions. Everything in this book is a declaration of love: to literature, to reading, to life that always surprises, to the very act of loving. «For about four years I had an epistolary relationship with an extraordinary girl. A voracious reader but without particular literary ambitions, she was full of oddities and suffering but also very fascinating. Panorama began to be born when she, without warning, deactivated her profile. From one day to the next she disappeared from my life and I felt an unexpected void, an anguish. After a few weeks I thought that a way to process this unusual mourning was to write a story about her but in which I did not appear». This is how Tommaso Pincio told it, revealing in the reality of personal events the origin of Panorama, published in 2015 by NN Editore and soon becoming a publishing phenomenon and a cult book. From that personal reality, events and characters of a dizzying story emerged. Here then is Ottavio Tondi, his obsession with reading as a relentless and marginal reason for living, his special talent "in not influencing things", the conflict with his father, up to the unexpected turn of existence: the meeting with the editorial director of an important publishing house, the reading of manuscript after manuscript, then the sudden success, the bestsellers, the power to decide the success of a novel, the literary festivals amid the adoration of the public and the envy of many. And here is Maddalena, with whom Ottavio begins a relationship in which many things coexist, "perhaps even love". And Ligeia, whom he meets on the social network "Panorama", with whom he sends messages for four years. The hours spent in a small car, wandering on the great ring that surrounds the city, and the silence of an empty and unmade bed, or of answers that never come. While time overwhelms and transforms everything, and books become a clandestine and dangerous passion. This new edition also contains the work of one of its characters, Acque chete by Mario Esquilino, unavailable for years because self-produced. Accompanied by the refined and melancholic voice of Pincio in the pages of Panorama we look at the world, present and future, without any rhetoric, we discover fears and fragilities, hopes and disillusions. Everything in this book is a declaration of love: to literature, to reading, to life that always surprises, to the very act of loving
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