Culture. Eat it
14 September 2015
“If you are going to seduce me, do it with good grammar.”
And it is the “good grammar” of Marco Missiroli in “Atti osceni in luogo privato” that seduces me. I admit that I purchased the text for its cover. It’s a sort of fatal attraction that brings me to grab this book without a specific reason, but with really high expectations. You feel like you chose it and it has chosen you.
It is the story of Libero Marsell, nomen omen in which is enclosed his mission. It is a Bildungsroman, sentimental and erotic, where the main character page by page shortens the distance that separates him from adulthood through a own personal research about sexuality. The life of Libero is marked in six days, as chapters; he moves between the romantic Paris adolescence, the New York youth and Milan adulthood. There are a fascinating parents in their fragility, friendship, betrayal, weakness, cruelty and… love. The women of his world are imagination, desire and greed.
Just like in front a keyhole I felt embarrassed, greedy and emotionally involved. I cheered for him – Grand Libero – as Marie likes to call him, his first secret desire and the character I most certainly loved. A beautiful librarian, wise and alone, ready to guide him in self-knowledge by suggesting first extraordinary readings. Because this novel has a magic power. It makes you yearn to live the same insecurities, to read the same books Libero grew up with, without making you feel ashamed of your obscenities.
“At the end one feels incomplete when is only young” – says Calvin – and I hope to feel incomplete and – why not – obscene still for a long time.
Estimated reading time for the book: about 6 hours
Photography: Sara Cartelli.
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She is an art historian, optimistic and empathic by nature. She imagines a world where sow kindness enjoying the little things. She's in love with stories since she was a child, for the Eat Culture she eats books and arts. Per aspera ad astra says the only tattoo on her skin. It reminds her that the road that leads to her dreams is not always easy but that she never gives up.
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