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Book · 2015
The Wooden People
Il popolo di legnoIn a mythical, lawless pocket of Calabria, an enigmatic speaker known as the Rat hosts an eccentric radio show on a pirate station run by local criminal elements. Addressing an audience he christens the wooden people, he delivers anarchic sermons satirizing humanity's delusions of moral progress and redemption.
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A novel can also be remarkable for what it is not, for the path it chooses not to take. "Il popolo di legno" is notable precisely because it avoids the Great Italian Novel, reassuring family sagas, and conventional non-fiction, rejecting all narcissistic complacency.
Niccolò Scaffai on Le parole e le cose A book that stands as a testimony of literary nihilism permeated by dark hilarity. With a cynical and lucid gaze, Trevi constructs a powerful apologue on the human condition and fate, completely outside conventional canons.
From IBS Emanuele Trevi has composed a most singular book. On one hand, he knows his own text perfectly: every syllable that he cautiously lets drop onto the paper; on the other hand, he does not know it, and allows himself to be swept away by it who knows where, into the improbable and impossible world where Pinocchio triumphs.
Pietro Citati on Corriere della Sera
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