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Dio è morto

€18,90

If God took human form and died, what would happen to the world and its inhabitants?

Synopsis

If God took human form and died, what would happen to the world and its inhabitants? Ron Currie starts from this premise to create one of the crudest and most illuminating books in American fiction in recent years. God incarnates himself in the body of a young woman from Sudan: when she is killed, he dies with her. The news of God's death soon begins to travel around the planet and to provoke the most disparate reactions. Some people begin to worship children and some dogs, some do much stranger or more ferocious things. Faced with the evidence that there is no longer a superior authority to regulate conflicts and assume responsibility and guilt, humanity is irremediably transformed, while remaining strangely familiar. Combining black humor and great existential questions, Currie places the reader in front of a distorting mirror, which paradoxically ends up returning a reality very similar to the absurd times we are living in.

Details

Translation by Michele Martino
Year of publication: April 2021
Number of pages: 192 pages
Format: 14 x 21 cm
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9788831321150

Author

Ron Currie Jr. was born in 1975 in Waterville, Maine. He studied at Clemson University in South Carolina, but did not graduate. After working as a cook in several restaurants, he made his debut in 2007 with God Is Dead, which was immediately acclaimed by critics and won the Young Lions Award from the New York Public Library. He later published Everything Matters! (Mondadori, 2010), Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles (2014) and The One-Eyed Man (2018). He received the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His books have been translated into 15 languages. He loves fishing. He lives in Portland, Maine.

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Dio è morto

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