“I bagnanti” by Rocco Anelli is a small gallery of works of art with an ideal common protagonist, which unites the stories of statues, paintings and frescoes in a single narrative. As the author himself states, it is “an involuntary novel, written by the same characters it tells”.
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Title: The Bathers
Author: Rocco Anelli
Genre: Fiction
Publishing House: Les Flâneurs Edizioni
Necklace: Out of necklace
Release date: 5/3/2021
Pages: 146
Paperback Price: €14,00
ISBN: 9788831314763
DISTRIBUTION
Since September 2015, Les Flâneurs Edizioni has been distributed by Libro Co. Italia. The title can therefore be ordered in all Italian bookstores, on the main online stores, including Amazon, Ibs, Mondadori Store, Libreria Universitaria, and in the Fastbook circuit. Available in digital format on Amazon, also for Kindle Unlimited subscription holders.
PLOT
What are eroticism and the discovery of the senses for boys on the threshold between adolescence and adulthood? The bathers desperately try to grow up, through tests of courage and initiation rites. Water and light, symbols of rebirth and catharsis, will help the boys to wash themselves and get rid of an immaturity that they wear proudly, in the form of nicknames. The Hedgehog, the Boxer, Mezzalira, Harpoon, Eel, Pythia: characters who draw inspiration from masterpieces of plastic art (such as the Rape of the Sabine Women by Giambologna, the Boxer Creugante and Paolina Borghese Bonaparte as Venus Victrix by Antonio Canova) and figurative art (Bathers by Paul Cézanne, Summer Scene by Jean-Frédéric Bazille, The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault, Delphic Sibyl by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Venus in the Mirror by Diego Velázquez, etc.) to better tell of metamorphoses and katabatic experiences. Descents and ascents that take the boys from the safe harbor of innocence to the mysterious lands of sex and corruption, tragedy and death, but also of dreams and love.
THE AUTHOR
Rocco Rings (Bari, 1998). He graduated with honors in Film and Digital Media at the American University of Rome. He is a Master in opera singing, having obtained a diploma from the ER Duni Conservatory in Matera. He composes music for films, also used in short films at Columbia College in Chicago. He directed the opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini for the tenth edition of “Noicattaro Lirica” and Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi at the Teatro Condominio in Gallarate. He is also the author and director of a short film, I gemelli, an official selection of the European Film Festival for the Puglia Show section.
THE PUBLISHING HOUSE
Les Flâneurs Edizioni was founded in 2015 by a group of young lovers of literature. The French term “flâneur” refers to a typically early twentieth-century intellectual figure who, armed with a bowler hat and walking stick, wanders aimlessly through the streets of his city discussing literature and philosophy. Today, as then, the publishing house aims to spread literary culture in all its forms, from fiction to poetry to essays, with independence of thought and a careful eye for quality. Les Flâneurs Edizioni intends to follow the author in all stages of publication: from editing to promotion. Les Flâneurs Edizioni is against paid publishing.
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