La meccanica dei corpi

What regulates the bodies we are? The pressures we exert on each other, the attractions, the evasions? What is the substance of our feelings? Paolo Zardi chooses literature as the discipline best able to narrate the complexity of the choices that define every life, because it is capable of exploring its hidden and unpredictable dynamics. The pages of La meccanica dei corpi inhabit these forces in an unexpected way. A girl working in the city, determined to break free from her provincial origins. A man who has achieved a coveted status decides that something is missing in his life. An old man at the end of his days is visited by the ghosts of the past, receives blank faxes and phone calls from no one. A woman sees her husband turn into a stranger. Two friends cross time during a dinner at home. Five stories that, with a mixture of grace and impertinence, capture the noise that people make in their incessant existence: a symphony of desires, hopes, expectations, of sudden triggers that rewrite the original score.