Napátrida

At just eighteen years old, Erri de Luca leaves Naples. The city closes in on him, he dismisses him with disdain: "The more I learned, the further I got from belonging to him." However, there will be condensed the keys to the formation of a unique writer: the careful observer, the manual worker, the declassed, the apprentice of the poetry of languages. Napátrida -Napòlide in Italian, a beautiful neologism that forever links the destiny of the expatriate writer to his native Naples- is the most openly autobiographical book by Erri de Luca. A peculiar intimate dictionary, refractory to any nostalgia, of the city of leaky floors (where you access the underworld, they say).