Thursday, October 15, at 6.00 p.m., at the civic library of Jesolo, Giorgio Girace presents his latest novel: Gallant Nightmares of a Venetian Casanova
Sixteen stories, sixteen glimpses of an unusual Venice, one of a hinterland filled with Kafkaesque bureaucracy, loneliness, and daily paradoxes. At the center of this microcosm is Glauco, an antihero who looks at his life as if through a spider's web, suspended between the anguish of the heart and the desire for revenge. His days are a seesaw between nocturnal nightmares and daring gallant dreams. Stumbling upon his own weaknesses, Glauco collects encounters with ordinary yet unique women, embodying Proust's famous motto: "let's leave beautiful women to men without imagination." A humorous and surreal journey into human relationships where, even when everything seems to collapse and the height of the situation is a mirage, what keeps the protagonist alive is a constant, ironic, and unstoppable pleasure.
