Anónimo veneciano

In an oneiric Venice, the last days of the life of a musician and the shreds of a love story eaten away by abandonment, resentment and repentance are consumed: a man, sentenced to death by an incurable disease, finds again his the woman who left him eight years before, after an intense and equally damaging love. Masterfully told, the story focuses on the desperate reunion between two beings who, although they still love each other, do not miss an opportunity to hurt each other, to punish each other, to give life to an absurd game of moral lacerations. Before a film script, then a play text and finally a novel, Berto began working on Venetian Anonymous after the overwhelming success of El malDark. Initially driven more by "gastronomic" reasons, as Brecht would say, than by real inspiration, the author ended up becoming obsessed with this text, turning it into a real gem, a small masterpiece that captivated critics and the public due to its compositional wisdom. , the fluidity of the dialogues, the evocative power of the setting and a velvety and enveloping melancholy like the fog of Venice.