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Dernières nouvelles de Rome et de l'existence
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In trying too hard to prove God’s non-existence, man failed to see his own. There’s enough material there to write thousands of books.” Rome, 1969. A certain Nicola Palumbo is showing increasing restlessness. Barely elected head of a political party, he resigns. In the same breath, he takes a job as a simple sofa salesman. He believes he has found “the possible place for a decisive observation on existence.” The fact is, around Palumbo, nothing seems to be going right. In 1969, human history is at a crossroads: the economic boom and the anarchist explosions detonate together—or perhaps they work together? In the Eternal City, Nicola Palumbo encounters a world of crumbling human existence: a gigolo friend, a writer suffering from writer's block, a businessman capable of prophecies, and even an actress adored by an entire nation... But the one with whom Palumbo truly engages in dialogue is himself. As Nicola Palumbo converses with Nicola Palumbo, he drifts further from reality: the more he observes the world, the less he knows; the more he soliloquizes, the less he can do. With this "Italian-style comedy," reminiscent of the films of Risi, De Sica, or Sorrentino (The Great Beauty), Jean Le Gall recounts the powerlessness—sometimes moving, often comical—of a man caught up in the historical moment that shaped us. An elegant, lucid novel, unsparing in its portrayal of politics, revealing a profound tenderness for its characters trapped between earth and sky. —Back cover
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