Contemporary Christmas Decoration

Alberto Cola - A beautiful katana

[...] Mishima put his hands in his pockets and looked around, mouth reduced to a thin cut across the face without expression. Seem to contemplate life from the last step of a guillotine. Then, little by little, gained the door. [...] [...]

live every moment in my cage of senses atrophied. I follow the movements of my two companions unable to speak and react, knowing that something goes beyond my perception, it keeps me from a distance. [...]

I could not resist. Lazarus Alberto Cola is so well written that I could not quote a few passages to allow the casual reader of this article to enjoy his style, so intimate and personal. Yet it is mentioned that those are the most striking passages: two passages chosen more or less randomly, with, as the only search criterion, the absence of revelations, not to anticipate anything of the plot. I finished the book in two nights and I regret that in reality, such work needed to be enjoyed for longer. It 's so rare to read these days and especially in Urania, authors worthy of the title, which, when you find one, you should sip.

The story is very good, exciting without being a barren sequence of actions (see Bay City): This is a noir very poetic, a brief history of flight between the lines that reveal a painful anxiety that only the nobility and beauty of the purest feelings - and the occasional rare - it can give comfort.

Yet few comments I want to do: if this novel has to be assessed under the current Italian fiction, one can not but praise unreservedly. It 'good, inside and outside the genre. But if we look up and surpass our narrow borders and sad, my point is that Alberto can do much more. The skill with which he has assimilated the lesson of Gibson, collecting and making her the most delicate and sensitive tone of the founder of cyberpunk, can lead very far: it can allow him to fly from a literary continuum overcome and deal with the true spirit of cyberpunk .. . create worlds that are adjacent to ours and make us see the monsters that we unconsciously every day life. The sharp edge is there, just ahead.

Sharpen katana Alberto, we are all with you. And thanks.

Denise Bresci