La noche del cometa

The life of Dino Campana, one of the most dazzling Italian poets of the 20th century, was like a comet whose light shone with the brevity and intensity of the self-destructive genius, and was extinguished in a madhouse between the general indifference and the stigma of the disease. mental. This mysterious and fascinating character is interested in Sebastiano Vassalli, another giant of transalpine literature, who wanted to pay tribute to him in this biography that delves into Campana's life with the rhythm and narrative fluidity of a novel. In it he reveals that, beyond the legend of the mad poet that surrounds his figure, Dino Campana was not a madman with the gift of poetry, but a besieged man, marginalized by his own family, by friends and by the literary community; the victim, in short, of the conspiracy of those who only saw an insane person in him, the tragic protagonist of a story of despair and death that took place in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century. Such an extraordinary case that, in the words of Vassalli, "if Dino had not existed, he would still have written this book and would have invented this marvelous and monstrous man. And he would have created him exactly as he was".