Ultracorpi. La ricerca utopica di una nuova perfezione
by Esposito, Francesca Marzia
In dance, as in body building, there is a canon of perfection of the bodies; bodies that, left to themselves, crumple and become ugly, while the exercise can and must modify the natural course of events, in a simulation – although illusory – of permanence, or even immortality. Actually, these are researches that are exaggerated by default and by excess, which often overlap a disorder of which anorexia and vigorexia are opposite and complementary symptoms.
Ranging with great freedom among autobiographical matrix, theoretical reflection and exemplary micronarrations, Francesca Marzia Esposito builds a real map of the contemporary imagery linked to the body and its transformations, relying on both popular and exemplary events such as those of Ronnie Coleman, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Vince Gironda for body building; Carla Fracci, Alessandra Ferri and Roberto Bolle for dance.
Ultracorpi (Ultrabodies) thus becomes an investigation into artificially modified bodies, bodies that stand in front of the mirror and decide to face a transformation that is as abstract and unreal as it is more detailed and anatomically perfect.
- Publishing house Minimum Fax
- Year of publication 2024
- Number of pages 387
- ISBN 9788833895437
- Foreign Rights Tiziana Bello tiziana@minimumfax.com
- Price 19.00
Esposito, Francesca Marzia
Francesca Marzia Esposito lives in Milan, where she teaches dance. She graduated at Dams in Bologna and holds a Masters in Writing for Film at the Cattolica University of Milan. Some of her short stories have been published on the reviews Granta, GQ, ‘tina and Colla. She published the novels La forma minima della felicità (Baldini & Castoldi 2015) and Corpi di ballo (Mondadori 2019).
