Author: Tonino Guerra
Translator: Eric Mosbacher
Publisher: MOIST
Paperback
Staff Pick
Antonio Guerra, the screenwriter for Fellini, Antonioni and Tarkovsky, was also a novelist. To mark the centenary of his birth comes this republishing of his novella ‘Equilibrium’.
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A graphic designer leaves Milan for the rural countryside to design a landmark font and live in isolation. The trauma of his imprisonment in WW2 resurfaces between vivid episodes of creativity. These range from creating a marketing campaign to sell stones collected from a riverbed, to reminiscing on his life among the affluent Milanese, to drawing a labyrinth of arrows and signs around his house that send him spinning out of control.
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At times wildly funny and at others disturbing, ‘Equilibrium’ gives insight into the mind behind the screenplays of such movies as Blow-Up, La Notte and Amarcord. A must read! In store now!