LO SBILICO
Presentation of Alcide Pierantozzi‘s book in conversation with Luca Starita
What happens when you don’t recognize your own reflection in the mirror and your mental balance gives way to hallucinations and paranoia? In this extraordinary novel, Alcide Pierantozzi recounts his daily life as a person with psychiatric disorders with disarming power. From diagnosis to medicalization to the endless hours of the present mingling with the past, reality seems to pass him by like the wind: fleeting, uncertain, elusive.
Alcide Pierantozzi tells us about his “imbalance” and shows us how mental health is also made up of the body, desires, and relationships. A hymn to life, the logbook of a lost mind that always, always tries to save itself.
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Alcide Pierantozzi was born in 1985 and lives in Colonnella, Abruzzo. He made his debut at the age of twenty-one with the novel Uno in diviso (Hacca 2006, Bompiani 2022), followed by L’uomo e il suo amore (Rizzoli 2008), Ivan il terribile (Rizzoli 2012), Tutte le strade portano a noi (All Roads Lead to Us) (Laterza 2015), and L’inconveniente di essere amati (The Inconvenience of Being Loved) (Bompiani 2020).
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