"Ho sette mesi di tempo e 450 bigliettoni per scrivere un romanzo. Mi pare piuttosto straordinario", John Fante wrote to a friend, "inside there are some things that would put the fire in the ass to a wolf. Maybe a little too strong, that is lacking in 'good' taste. But I do not care". Well, this novel "a bit too strong" marks the debut of an unforgettable hero of the literature of this century, Gabriel Arturo Bandini. Tender and rebellious, naive and rancorous, Bandini is eternal adolescent conflict with the part of the world that comes within range, and changes appearance and mood, often going from paradise to hell in just a few lines. There is such a Bandini-Führer attacking a bunch of crabs into pieces making them mercilessly, which is a sex maniac Bandini stage with his pornographic magazines in the "closet of clothes, a pedantic Bandini, exalted reader of Nietzsche and Spengler, who takes revenge on the owner of the stinking cannery where he worked for an opinion on superomismo ...
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