December 18, among fir branches and book pages
An international literary event dedicated to The Little Red Man (L’omino rosso), Doina Ruști’s novel in its Italian translation by Roberto Merlo, published by Sandro Teti Editore (Rome).
Hosted by Circolo dei Lettori, the event was supported by Accademia di Romania (Rome) and University of Turin, in partnership with Libreria Luxemburg (Turin).
Laura Iosa is a forty-year-old woman forced to compete with a society that values female appearance, youth, and audacity above all else. Treated with disdain by publishers who repeatedly refuse to print her book, and deeply disappointed by the environment around her, Laura decides to write her story on a blog — a choice that radically changes her life.
She enters a strange relationship with two enigmatic figures: a solitary IT specialist and a mysterious mystagogue who leads her into a hallucinatory virtual paradise.
The Little Red Man is a novel about digital identity, authorship, marginality, and the porous border between reality and virtual existence.
Further details:
The event was hosted by
Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature straniere e Culture moderne - UniTo, Consulatul General al Romaniei la Torino
L’Omino rosso is a novel about the emergence of the internet and the profound transformation of the world, here closely linked to the end of communism.
