Wednesday, December 11th – 6pm
SULLALUNA NYC 41 Carmine Street, New York
GIULIA CAMINITO
con Iuri Moscardi e Clara Ramazzotti
IL MALE CHE NON C’È
Once again, Giulia Caminito chooses the path of the novel to tell her own story and that of her generation, one that has not endured wars or material deprivation but has instead inherited the loneliness of the Internet and precariousness. Her essential writing in this book opens up to a surprising dreamlike atmosphere, making hypochondria a memorable protagonist—the seductive and mocking Catastrofe—and setting the scene in the urban jungle where all our most painful experiences unfold. The Illness That Isn’t is a book about the power of imagination and childhood, a novel of a descent into hell and the climb back toward the bright origin that we can all, if we wish, return to, just as the pigeons know how to do.
In life, it happens that the universe seems divided between those who act and aren’t scared of the world, and those like us, inhabited by a hidden pain under the skin.
For Loris, everything began in childhood, when summers were as full of charm as Grandpa Tempesta’s garden, near the ruins of ancient Galeria. When he was with his grandfather, the overwhelming need to read in order to chase away his anxieties disappeared, and he learned wonderful things, like how to build a birdcage and raise pigeons, loyal and iridescent.
Now Loris is thirty, he’s made reading his profession, lives in the city, and has a girlfriend named Jo. But his job at the publishing house is precarious, and the anxiety of not being up to the expectations of adulthood crushes him, devours him. Loris slips inside himself, first to defend himself, then to listen to the warning signals his body sends him. There’s a sickness inside him, a sickness capable of taking away every last trace of hope. And while doctors, his girlfriend, and his parents seem to drift further away, Loris has only two allies left: social media, a relief and nourishment for his ghosts, and Catastrofe, the shapeshifting creature—cat, wolf, friend, wife—who stays close to him in the most difficult moments.
GIULIA CAMINITO
È nata a Roma nel 1988 e si è laureata in Filosofia politica. Ha esordito con il romanzo La Grande A (Giunti 2016, Premio Bagutta opera prima, Premio Berto e Premio Brancati giovani), seguito nel 2019 da Un giorno verrà (Bompiani, Premio Fiesole Under 40) e da L’acqua del lago non è mai dolce (Bompiani 2021), finalista al premio Strega e vincitore del premio Campiello, tradotto in più di venti paesi.
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