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CEMETERIES. Stories of regrets and madness

Chiariamolo now: this is not a book of horror. Let's stop looking at the cemetery as a place macabre. The cemetery is a kingdom of peace and silence. The dead are not afraid (I'd rather look at me from the living ...). Georges Clemenceau said that "the graveyards are full of indispensable people" and I would add "interesting." Yeah, interesting how many people in life are sleeping the eternal sleep in the cold cemetery vaults. Stories of life (and death) that is worth telling. Giuseppe Marcenaro This must have thought when he decided to write Cemeteries , a collection of anecdotes and curious about death, burial, but also the lives of famous and lesser-known past to a better life: from Napoleon to Garibaldi, Brecht, Benjamin, from Shelley to Valery, from Stevenson, Poe, from Winckelmann to Rasputin, the Romanovs to Marx. Besides these and other famous names, those people are almost unknown but have lived extraordinary lives or has made special achievements. Just to name a few: the valiant John Martin (born Giovanni Martini), the disturbing and Jerome Segato Efisio Marini, the fierce Billy the Kid, the rash Calamity Jane. Some chapters, however, are completely dedicated to famous cemeteries such as Poggioreale in Naples, the Jewish Prague, the Père-Lachaise in Paris, to the Necropolis of Qaytbay, Egypt, the city cemetery where the living-living with the dead. Giuseppe Marcenaro
style is refined (refined as is the cover of the book, retro), the irony with which a subject is grim as death is slim and elegant old-school journalist. This text presents the cemetery as a place of regret and madness. Regret for those who are no more, because it is folly to be considered madness to want to exorcise and expel through the cult of the dead and the magnificence of the tombs, the terror of the inevitable: death. A book caught
and original. For those who want to learn, for those who want to understand, for those who want to reflect on the ephemeral and the eternal fullness of life void of death.

Giuseppe Marcenaro (pictured right) was born in Genoa in 1952. Writer, historian, art critic, journalist. Collaborate with La Stampa and Il Secolo XIX. Many of his articles have appeared in major newspapers and magazines such as The European , Epoca, L'Espresso , Meridiani , Capital . From 1975 to 1984 he directed the magazine of literature, history and philosophy Stones. Tiene courses and seminars in various Italian and foreign universities. He arranged with the artist, director and actor Peter Borage exhibitions of art and literature. He has published several books and has edited several biographies including that of Eugenio Montale and that of John Ansaldo.
RATING: 5 / 5

Title: Cemeteries. Stories of regrets and madness
Author: Giuseppe Marcenaro
Publisher: Addison
Year: 2008