Dues vides

In this memorable and beautiful book Emanuele Trevi presents us with the profile of two friends, writers like him: Rocco Carbone and Pia Pera, as different from each other as their deaths were. Rocco was harassed relentlessly by disenchantment; His existence and his writing were a tortuous and strict form of suffering and his days ended abruptly due to a freak accident. Pia Pera was impulsive, sensitive, idealistic, and a degenerative disease gradually took away her autonomy before killing her. Both had their inner demons, their opacity, those shadowy areas that not even the friendly eye can or knows how to reach. When the time comes to remember them, what distance should the writer, the friend, take to do them justice?