Enter the night of a story of love, sex and death Mariagloria Fontana with the novel “Come from the dark” (Castelvecchi) who follows the narrative debut “The reason was carnal” (Curcio, 2017) and “Book Affairs” (Giulio Perrone, 2022), in which the journalist and radio presenter makes ten writers and writers speak between profession and private life, tools of the trade and obsessions. And with “Come from the darkness” the fountain, which has a literary blog on Huffington Post and has founded and directs the “The cities of women” award, reflects on a theme already addressed in the debut: how much does an unknown life attract us? And what do you know about love or, perhaps, of the representation of the love that the other has?
Nora, 38 years old, food and wine journalist, beautiful, intelligent and with a full and opulent life, is about to marry Paolo, Roman lawyer, but just as he thinks of the preparations of the sumptuous ceremony he knows Max, a Neapolitan writer who after two successful novels stopped writing. 45 years, separated with a son of 8 suffering from a disorder of social, fascinating and shady, precariousness as a lifestyle (the bills to be paid accumulate in the hole in which he lives, even if to survive he manages a place with friends), precisely the opposite of the luxurious style that gives shape and color to every aspect of the existence of Nora. Therefore, as soon as they know each other, the embers of desire and possession fueled by their worlds so different: he surrounded by his demons (including those of great writers loved by him), does not think of anything except to go beyond the threshold of the day, she “made” between the work and the organization of the wedding (with a stop in Paris to choose the wedding dress). A relationship only apparently sexual, because the indispensable bodies are imposed on each other and the infinity of their encounter: both are seen, listen, analyze themselves (their thoughts with social and cultural reflections alternate in the narrative), both aware that “the search for amazement is proportional to the illusions that are possessed”. But in the geometry of infidelity there is a place for everyone, and while everyone believes to control the events, while everyone’s raw reality and fragility impose themselves, the question, to remember Philip Roth (loved by the fountain) is: “What boundless errors should you know how to make to reach our destination?” And what goal?
