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From his solitary buen retiro in the mountains, the last man on earth drives to the capital Chrysopolis to see if anyone else has survived the Vanishing. But there's no one else, living or dead, in that city of "holy plutocracy," with its fifty-six banks and as many churches. He'd left the metropolis to escape his fellow humans and their striving, but to find that the entire human race has evaporated in an instant is more than he had bargained for.
Guido Morselli's arresting post-apocalyptic novel, written just before he died, a suicide, in 1973, depicts a man much like the author himself-lonely, brilliant, difficult-and a world much like our own, mesmerized by money, speed, and machines. He travels around searching for signs of life at the US army base-palm trees, convertibles, and missile bays under the roadway-and scouts the well-appointed kitchens of his alpine valley's grand hotels for provisions, all the while brooding on the limits of human vision: his own, but also that of humankind. Meanwhile, life itself-the rest of nature-is just beginning to flourish now that human beings are gone.
A precocious portrait of our Anthropocene world and a philosophical last will and testament from a great Italian outsider.
From his solitary buen retiro in the mountains, the last man on earth drives to the capital Chrysopolis to see if anyone else has survived the Vanishing. But there's no one else, living or dead, in that city of "holy plutocracy," with its fifty-six banks and as many churches. He'd left the metropolis to escape his fellow humans and their striving, but to find that the entire human race has evaporated in an instant is more than he had bargained for.
Guido Morselli's arresting post-apocalyptic novel, written just before he died, a suicide, in 1973, depicts a man much like the author himself-lonely, brilliant, difficult-and a world much like our own, mesmerized by money, speed, and machines. He travels around searching for signs of life at the US army base-palm trees, convertibles, and missile bays under the roadway-and scouts the well-appointed kitchens of his alpine valley's grand hotels for provisions, all the while brooding on the limits of human vision: his own, but also that of humankind. Meanwhile, life itself-the rest of nature-is just beginning to flourish now that human beings are gone.
A precocious portrait of our Anthropocene world and a philosophical last will and testament from a great Italian outsider.
Frederika Randall (1948–2020) was a writer, reporter, and translator. Among her translations are Ippolito Nievo’s Confessions of an Italian, and for NYRB, Guido Morselli’s The Communist. She received the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Translation and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, and with Sergio Luzzatto, the Cundill Prize. She finished her translation of Dissipatio H.G. shortly before her death in Rome in 2020.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 144 |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781681374765 |
| ISBN-10: | 1681374765 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Morselli, Guido |
| Solist: | Randall, Frederika |
| Übersetzung: | Randall, Frederika |
| Hersteller: | New York Review of Books |
| Maße: | 199 x 125 x 12 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Guido Morselli |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.12.2020 |
| Gewicht: | 0,168 kg |
Frederika Randall (1948–2020) was a writer, reporter, and translator. Among her translations are Ippolito Nievo’s Confessions of an Italian, and for NYRB, Guido Morselli’s The Communist. She received the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Translation and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, and with Sergio Luzzatto, the Cundill Prize. She finished her translation of Dissipatio H.G. shortly before her death in Rome in 2020.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 144 |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781681374765 |
| ISBN-10: | 1681374765 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Morselli, Guido |
| Solist: | Randall, Frederika |
| Übersetzung: | Randall, Frederika |
| Hersteller: | New York Review of Books |
| Maße: | 199 x 125 x 12 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Guido Morselli |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.12.2020 |
| Gewicht: | 0,168 kg |
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