Un male purissimo by Gennaro Marco Duello published by Riogiosi. Three months after its publication, the post noir is being reprinted
“To write a novel like this you have to have things to say about men, places, the seasons of existence, and Duello has them. I also really liked the decidedly Neapolitan literary flavor of the writing, the richness, the baroque asymmetries, sometimes the excess, always enchanting”.
The writer and translator Raul Montanari, after reading “Un male purissimo”, the literary debut of the journalist Gennaro Marco Duello published by Rogiosi, talked about it on his social channels.
A little over three months after its arrival on the publishing market and with an extraordinary summer book tour behind it, here comes the second edition of “Un male purissimo”, a post noir that has had good critical acclaim and, apparently, has won over readers. Gennaro Marco Duello presented his book at the Festival del Giallo Città di Napoli, at the cultural moment dedicated to books at the Pizza Village and at the FLIP Festival Letteratura Indipendente in Pomigliano d'Arco; in the spaces of the bookshop La Bottega delle Parole in San Giorgio a Cremano, at the Social Break Point in San Sebastiano al Vesuvio and in the “Dorso” Library in Secondigliano, where the writer was born. He also took it on a trip, outside Campania, with an appointment in the cultural calendar of the Giostra Cavalleresca in Sulmona and in Alba Adriatica (TE) in a meeting “Al Faro”.
Among the upcoming events, Gennaro Marco Duello will be a bookseller for a day at the event “Giovani Librai per un giorno crescere” (Young Booksellers for a Day Grow Up) which will be held at the Libreria Diari di Bordo in Parma on October 22. The book will also be presented at the Mondadori Bookstore in Santa Maria Capua Vetere on October 28 and at Ricomincio dai Libri 2022, the book fair directed by Lorenzo Marone, on October 29.
THE BOOK
In “Un male purissimo”, against the backdrop of a Naples that becomes the protagonist in its turn, the story of three men – Marzio, Antonio and Enzo – and the abysses of darkness into which the soul falls. While the mirrored skyscrapers of Kenzō Tange’s Centro Direzionale dominate the surface – giving the image of a productive, efficient citadel, devoted to the ethics of sharing –, the underground parking lots create a passage, a stepmotherly cavity in which the darkest human impulses germinate. Marzio Figurato is a successful entrepreneur, a formally impeccable man: the background of the soul, however, keeps silent the confession of an ancient secret. Antonio Luongo is a night worker: father-domineering father of four daughters, disaffected and violent husband, he extorts money on behalf of two Colombian transsexuals. Enzo Sandomenico, last but not least, is the crossroads that, realizing the encounter between truth and lies, tears the garment of mere semblances. The story of the drift that arises from the inability to accept oneself; a window opened on the shape of Vesuvius when it overturns and changes face.
THE AUTHOR
Gennaro Marco Duello was born in 1983. He lives between Naples and Francavilla al Mare with his wife Gemma and children Sofia and Giuseppe. He graduated in Communication Sciences at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University. He is a professional journalist. He has been working in the Entertainment and Culture editorial team of Fanpage.it since 2011. From 2012 to 2016 he created and hosted the Fanpage Town format, a virtual space dedicated to the world of music, which has seen the participation of many illustrious names on the national scene. Un male purissimo (Rogiosi Editore) is his first novel.
Article published on 6 October 2022 - 13:37
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