Italy's great chronicler of the macabre and hilariousterrors of growing up geeky arrives in English at last. Longbefore the latest vogue for autofiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's mostbeloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, and foundit crawling with monsters. Raisedon comic books and science fiction, the young Mari constructed an alternateuniverse for himself untouched by uncomprehending grownups or sadistic peers.Compared to the horrors of real life, Long John Silver and Cthulhu made forpositively cuddly company; but little boys raised by beasts may well grow upbeastly--or never grow up at all. Waking or sleeping, the obsessions of Mari'syouth seem to color his every adult thought. You, Bleeding Childhood standsas his first attempt to catalog this cabinet of wonders. Cultclassics since their first publication, these loosely connected stories standas the ideal introduction to an encyclopedic fantasist on a par with Kafka,Poe, and Borges.&nbsp;

You, Bleeding Childhood

Literature & Fiction

Mari, Michele

Literary

And Other Stories

At the tail end of the 1960s, the thirteen-year-old Michelino spendshis summers at his grandparents' modest estate in Nasca, near Lake Maggiore,losing himself in the tales of horror, adventure, and mystery shelved in hisgrandfather's library. The greatest mystery he's ever encountered, however,doesn't come from a book--it's the groundskeeper, Felice, a sometimesfrightening, sometimes gentle, always colorful man of uncertain age who speaksan enchanting dialect and whose memory gets worse with each passing day. When Michelinovolunteers to help the old man by providing him with clever mnemonic devices tokeep his memory alive, the boy soon finds himself obsessed with piecingtogether the eerie hodgepodge of Felice's biography . . . a quest that leads tothe uncovering of skeletons in Nazi uniforms in the attic, to Felice'sadmission that he can hear the voices of the dead, and to a new perspective onFelice's endless war against the insatiable local slugs, who are by no meansmerely a horticultural threat. &nbsp; And yet nothing could be more fascinating to Michelinothan Felice's own secret origins. Where did he come from? Is he the victim orthe villain of his story? Is he a noble hero, a holy fool, or perhaps the verything that Michelino most wants and fears: a real-life monster.

Verdigris

Toi, sanglante enfance

Genre Fiction

Ypsilon

Rosso Floyd

Contemporary

Einaudi

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