Submersion

On a narrow strip of land in the Venetian lagoon, on an island destined to disappear beneath the waters, we find a rancorous old fisherman who still has plans to accomplish something before dying. The rugged protagonist of Sandro Frizziero’s book hates all the inhabitants of his island, with no exceptions: murderers, hypocrites, devout blasphemers, and priests. He even hates the trees and the grass, the wind, and the seasons. This is a bitter, cruel novel, just like the old man, who spares no one, not even his poor deceased wife. A character for whom one can feel no empathy. Frizziero, with his dry, caustic prose, lays bare a turbid humanity filled with lies and betrayals, heresies, and envy. The fisherman lives under the weight of his memories and regrets, even despising his former drinking companions, who drag themselves from one bar to the next “always ruminating on the same thoughts in solitude”, stretching out their time as they wait to be submerged, to disappear without a trace, and return once more to the slime of the lagoon on which the village was built. Let's discover the book together with the author in this video dedicated to Pirelli readers, Sommersione Sandro Frizziero Fazi editore, 2020