The House On Via Gemito

The extraordinary novel that confirmed Domenico Starnone as one of the greatest writers in modern Italian literature
The modest apartment in Via Gemito smells of paint and white spirit.The living r ...

The extraordinary novel that confirmed Domenico Starnone as one of the greatest writers in modern Italian literature
The modest apartment in Via Gemito smells of paint and white spirit.The living room furniture is pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio, and drying canvases must be moved off the beds each night.
Federi, the father, a railway clerk, is convinced of possessing great artistic talent. If he didn't have a family to feed, he'd be a world-famous painter. Ambitious and frustrated, genuinely talented but full of arrogance and resentment, his life is marked by bit