Bibliograph

You, bleeding childhood, Michele Mari, translated from the Italian by Brian Robert Moore

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You, bleeding childhood, Michele Mari, translated from the Italian by Brian Robert Moore

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

You, bleeding childhood

Oclc number

1345218728

Responsibility statement

Michele Mari, translated from the Italian by Brian Robert Moore

Summary

Italy's great chronicler of the macabre and of growing up geeky. Longbefore the latest vogue for autofiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's mostbeloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, and found it crawling with monsters. Raisedon comic books and science fiction, the young Mari constructed an alternate universe for himself untouched by uncomprehending grownups or sadistic peers. Compared to the horrors of real life, Long John Silver and Cthulhu made forpositively cuddly company; but little boys raised by beasts may well grow up beastly-or never grow up at all. Waking or sleeping, the obsessions of Mari's youth seem to haunt his every adult thought. You, Bleeding Childhood stands as his first attempt to catalog this cabinet of wonders. Cult classics since their first publication, these loosely connected stories standas the ideal introduction to a fantasist on a par with Kafka, Poe, and Borges

Table Of Contents

Comic strips -- The man who shot Liberty Valance -- The covers of Urania -- They shot me and I'm dead -- The horror of playgrounds -- Eight writers -- The black arrow -- Jigsawed greens -- War songs -- And I am they daemon -- Down there -- The soccer balls of Mr. Kurz -- Eurydice had a dog

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