Among the most enervating trends in our world today, the idea of the fullest self-realization stands out as a compendium between the work, the existential, the spiritual seasoned with permanent happiness. Marketing things that reach everything, even the deepest perception of life. New current generations that point to that of a job that is not work (which sounds great), an exploration of everything in constant growth. In summary, an ego exploding towards all the points of space-time to park any other notion that does not carry the self in front.
The perfection of the superego of Nietzsche transferred to the most everyday. The result is a spiral plot towards disaster via disappointment, frustration and any other sensation beyond the central point of the black hole enchanted to devour so many souls in the world today.
Anna and Tom are a young couple who work as graphic designers from home. Taking advantage of the flexibility of movement that their profession gives them, they decide to settle in a bright apartment in Berlin, the cosmopolitan capital par excellence, where they believe they will be able to make their dreams come true.
Those dreams go through living without sticking too closely to conventions, reinventing codes of conduct and exploring new spaces. They passionately enjoy food, stay up late, drop by illegal parties, want to believe that they are a couple open to sexual experimentation, strive to commit to progressive political ideals when the refugee crisis occurs...
However, time passes, monotony begins to set in, friends return home and have children, creative work becomes routine and ideals that seemed within reach are elusive... Anna and Tom feel trapped, bent on find something pure and true. But does it really exist?
Vincenzo Latronico has written a concise and vibrant novel that is, at the same time as an open homage to The Things, by Georges Perec, an accurate and implacable generational chronicle. The portrait of the bankruptcy of ideals, of the doubts and disappointments that appear when, as the birthday goes on, dreams are left behind. A parable about our lives besieged by the images of social networks and about the search for an authenticity that is increasingly fragile and rare.
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