Preface by: Giovanni Montanaro
Year of publication: 2025


Synopsis:
After a life spent elsewhere, Paolo Barbaro returns to Venice: he believes he will find the city he knows, that of his youth, but he realizes with astonishment that he still has much to discover. Something has changed and something seems to have remained motionless in time, tenaciously clinging to the crumbly "walls of memory". He thus walks through calli and campi, rive and bridges, crossing the stories of the mutable and unpredictable humanity that inhabits these places, driven by the intent, at every step, to "relearn to see". What emerges is a personal and utterly current diary, animated by the unmistakable prose of a great author who represents the literary reference for the most recent generation of lagoon writers. A "sentimental guide", enriched by a constant comparison between Venice and other cities of modernity, in which each of us "carries around a trait of his labyrinth" and rediscovers the complexity of his own dwelling, in the fragile balance between immersion and volatility.


Other information:
Series: Fondamenta
Pages: 184
Language: Italian
ISBN: 9791280930385