Controversy sells. No doubt. Edward Albitani, veteran Italian writer with a multitude of novels behind him can well attest to this. Because it was to post a Novelty, in which he revealed even gruesome aspects of his early youth in a religious school, and end up achieving that unsuspected success among readers and yes from half of Europe.
Of course, the highest Italian award, the Strega, also helps... Be that as it may, another new example of this literature with the spirit of controversy, of stirring up souls, of igniting passions, is welcome. Because regardless of the genre that is cultivated, when someone like Albinati is remembered for bringing out the colors and trying to clean up the dirty laundry of dark consciences, the essential task of literature chronicling an era will be achieved.
Top recommended novels by Edoardo Albinati
The catholic school
The masculine does not require vindication, as the feminine clearly requires from feminism in search of equality. But masculinity can also be a victim of that machismo that erects totems whose renunciation provokes contempt and exclusion. Sexuality is just the tip of the iceberg, because at the end of the day, sexuality is part of more private spheres. But everything else comes straight from a stigmatizing culture on many fronts...
And then there is this semi-biographical novel. An entire starting fiction in which that sum of experiences is inserted, of scenes revived by the author and that end up in tune with the darkness of the fictional plot, equating imaginaries on both sides with the same sensation of darkness.
A group of former students from a prestigious private school commit a brutal crime. At the same time, Edoardo Albinati was also studying at that school for Catholic priests. For forty years he has kept the secret of that rudeness, and now he faces it openly. The result is an extraordinary novel, dealing with sex, religion and violence, money, friendship and revenge, winner of the prestigious Strega Prize. A shocking read from which he does not escape unscathed.
An adultery
A few days ago we laughed at the assertion of a friend. For him the thing of sexual desire in married and married was reduced to a maxim: “Married women fantasize about Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Married men fantasize about our children's teacher or our neighbor. Between both inaccessible desires from absolute distance or inaccessible proximity, this novel of defeated temptations is born ...
After a virtual crush, Erri and Clementina flee their respective tedious married lives to spend a weekend together on an island. They run a huge risk, but the passion that drives them is uncontrollable, and the happiness that seems to be at hand, inalienable. Un adultery he lets us glimpse the full story of this fleeting adventure in this extraordinary study of desire. A vibrant, sensual and brutally sincere story that, built on a lie, challenges all of us: those who have lived in a clandestine relationship, those who have rejected it and those who have longed for it in the most intimate way.
