Los comienzos

The Beginnings is the big bang of Antonio Moresco's narrative universe, a modern classic that inaugurates one of the most brilliant and unclassifiable narrative cycles in current European literature: the Giochi dell'eternità trilogy. This work consolidated Moresco as one of the great contemporary writers in the Italian language; his conceptual ambition and incomparable command of the language have earned him deserved comparisons with Joyce, Proust and C?rt?rescu. The nameless protagonist of The Beginnings is a seminarian, revolutionary, and writer; he lives with his eyes eternally half-closed; he knows how to see what he is not there but does exist. In a dizzying succession of glimpsed places and events, in a metamorphosis that never ends, he lives simultaneously one and three lives, narrated with an inexhaustible wealth of images and dazzling, hypnotic prose. Characters, places and motifs appear, disappear and reappear when one thinks one has already forgotten them, the seasons pass between the lines, and narrator and reader, helpless, attend, enthralled, everything that crosses their path. Poetry, comedy and tragedy intermingle in an uncontrollable maelstrom that assimilates the absurdity of existence to vindicate its beauty.