Imperfect Tales E-Book

Federico Moss

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

Nine are the short stories that make up this collection in which reality takes on ever new forms. Japan, politics, soccer, but also weight issues: themes seemingly unrelated to each other but which serve as the starting point for the narratives. Thus emerge allegories with deep meanings, events with disturbing features, and inventions of the imagination that create contexts that are surprising to say the least. But above all, what this collection does is immerse the reader in an atmosphere that is at times magical and at times dark, to surround us with mystery and lead us by the hand toward a deep investigation of us. This is how our fears, our weaknesses, but also our deep loneliness emerge.

Leseprobe

Index

Preface

Toumaro and koi

The politician

Anna and the brook

The inverted interview

Linen and stripes

The lost singer

Diet

Ahmed and the deflated ball

The Bicycle Man and the Child

Federico Moss

Title | Imperfect Tales

Author | Federico Moccia

ISBN | 9791221470079

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Preface

"Hi, I'm your scale!"

"Oh God you speak?" Said Angela.

"Only to those who need it," she replied.

"Do you know why you don't lose weight? Because you don't love yourself! And because even your colleagues at work don't love you."

"But what about them?" The woman replied.

"Quit, that's what you have to do, quit, quit!"

Multifaceted are the tales in this collection in which the place of subject and object of the narrative is given to the most disparate vicissitudes. And although each narrative stands on its own, we can glimpse the timeless flow into which they fit, almost as if each were a shred of a larger story.

Various protagonists are located within it. Each of them is given a small space, which is enough to paint them with extreme skill. In fact, even though their origins and characteristics are not spelled out in great detail, we meet them in an explosive manner, almost as if we had already heard of them for some time. In this we precisely see the maturity of a writing that by sketching fictitious characters actually manages to talk about us, about those human feelings that belong to all people.

The events narrated are brief, and between one story and the next we perceive a hinge that is never completely closed. It generates in us anticipation, hope, leading us on a pilgrimage of reflection in which we immerse ourselves to answer the most diverse questions.

Anna brought her hand to her mouth and was seized by a feeling of dismay; she was torn between taking it or letting it flow away, a bit like life's chances.

The thematic and narrative choices in Racconti imperfetti are always thoughtful, because the author manages to record what is happening, giving the written word a very rare power and great impact.

With great originality, we can wander through the meanders of the world, to see the wonders of situations that sometimes have nothing exceptional about them, to see how art is always a foothold for mankind.

From story to story, we move at a graceful pace: we observe the life of a politician, we are confronted with gruesome scenes, we take a plane to get a taste of Japan.

Tamahagane iron is used to make a Katana, and then it is beaten for many hours. Making a sword was for Aikashi like making love to an ever-changing woman, it was as if he became one with her.

What nourishes this collection is undoubtedly a great visionary spirit, that of an author who uses writing to understand human beings and give us a complete portrait, free of all judgement. The eye that scrutinises them is at times pure and at times violent, because in its rhythm the narrative is nourished by forces of various natures and by a duty, that of the writer, to give us as faithful a reproduction of reality as possible.

The various stories here are like sparks, as each one manages to shine brightly and unite with the others in a meaning that becomes all-encompassing. Beyond the style, the musicality of the words, the images that impose themselves on us, what surprises us most about these stories, so skilfully written, is their ability to remain impure, imperfect just like life.