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DUE VITE

Emanuele Trevi

A gorgeously spare, lucid, moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing and the magical bond between life and literature.

Trevi recounts the lives of two writers and friends, Rocco Carbone and Pia Pera and the discovery of two lives that have apparently nothing extraordinary. He explores, in a surgical and impressionistic exercise, the art of narrating a friendship. Elegiac and searching, Due Vite is both a meditation on love, loss and bereavement and a celebration of the wonder and transforming power of literature. Trevi is one of those very few writers who are capable of transferring his poetic and aesthetic sensibility and a personal existential meditation into a rich narrative texture. His novels and narrative essays all partake of a "flaneuristic" attitude, thanks to which the reader cannot but follow as mesmerized in the footsteps of the writer-magician. He has translated French author as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Théodore Flournoy and curated Italian classics: he is presently at work at the Italian edition of the collected works oh Philip K. Dick. His writing mixes, or seems to mix, non-fiction and fiction, criticism, memoir and biography: the results are works that can only be described as narrative personal essays or meditative novels, as would be the case for some of Emmanuel Carrère's or Truman Capote's titles. Emanuele Trevi, a writer and a literary critic, was born in 1964 in Rome, where he lives. He debuted with Istruzioni per l'uso del lupo (Castelvecchi, 1994). Among his works: I cani del nulla (Einaudi Stile Libero, 2003) Senza verso and L'onda del porto (Laterza, 2005), Il libro della gioia perpetua (Rizzoli, 2010), Qualcosa di scritto (Ponte alle Grazie, 2012) winner of the European Prize for Literature and finalist for Premio Strega, Il popolo di legno (Einaudi, 2015) Prix Marco Polo Venise 2017 and Sogni e favole, winner of Premio Viareggio 2019. He is a contributor to the newspaper « Il Corriere della Sera » and « Il Manifesto ».

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Book Published 2020-06-01 by Neri Pozza

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In Due Vite, Trevi manages to replicate what Rocco Carbone confessed to him that he felt in front of Courbet's canvas: the emotion of an aesthetic revelation capable of generating surprise and wonder.

An inner labyrinth of memories governed by the philological reconstruction of faces, interiors, streets, newspaper articles: 128 painful and passionate pages.

Captivating.

A wonderful book.

Stories, memory, reflection, digression and distraction - these are all characteristics of Trevi's writing, and of his ability to pull us into a time and place we did not think concerned us much. Due vite by Emanuele Trevi is a book that is able to transform intimacy and melancholy into pure literature, by making them universal and bringing them closer to everyone's lives. And it is a book that is like no other.

A book in which there is not a single word that is not indispensable.

A moving and poetic writing.

In the top ten of the Most Notable Books of 2020 for La Lettura - Corriere della Sera.

Trevi's style is unique, a deeply human prose of art, almost the prose of the soul.

In its few pages, Due vite manages to be many things: it is a reflection on identity, on literature, on the right distance to keep to write the lives of others, on the transitory nature of human experience and the wounds it leaves behind.

A gorgeously spare, lucid, moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing and the magical bond between life and literature.