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    Tales of paper
    Tales of paper
    Tales of paper
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    Tales of paper

    By G.g. Vinciguerra

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    What is real and what is not? We are really sure of being able to really understand the world around us, or we live hiding behind mere illusions, dreams and therefore destined to fade in the face of reality?
    Eight short stories and two poems lead us to discover the stories of paper that we tell ourselves, in pale attempt to mask the reality to look like more of what we want to what it is. Doing so, however, we give up voluntarily to admire its many facets and secret passages, which extend into wonderful shapes on the great book of life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherG.g. Vinciguerra
    Release dateJul 9, 2015
    ISBN9786051768243
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      Tales of paper - G.g. Vinciguerra

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      INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK

      The world never appears in its true form, but in a distorted way, almost twisted. What we see, we live, we touch, are not real facts, real physical objects, but only the fruit of our mind, of what she believes to see, to experience, to touch. Nothing, in essence, is how it looks.

      Here, in summary, the main theme of the eight short stories that I have gathered in this small volume. Novels I wrote in my own hand over five years, on several occasions, but they have ended up being linked to each other, as a kind of speech fragmented over time.

      Eight stories, or tales of paper, where it does not matter the name of the protagonist, often absent, or a physical description, absolutely irrelevant, but what it does, or thinks to do. And in this game of mirrors, I hope, is also involved the reader: he only seemingly able to understand the world, but also intended to see his point of view when, finally, the story deviates from the mind of one who He lives, showing the reality (real or supposed) of the facts.

      Technically it defined surprise ending, but the real surprise is the realization that it was clear from the beginning, almost transparent, and that they failed to grasp it was only due to the mental schemes, the banality, within whose narrow limits we self-inmates.

      Eight novels, therefore, as many worlds of paper, unreal but alive, eight or eight ways of seeing reality.

      Conclude the work the two short poems, slightly detached from the main theme. Two small gifts to the beauty and life itself, for nothing, perhaps, have been there more than live dreaming. 

      Introduction to the first novel

      The prey had a genesis of its own: I was asked to participate in a national competition for emerging young writing. Of course I was pretty sure I would have had no chance, so this story sketched hastily, within an hour. As in many things in my life, I was wrong in full. A few days later the organizers phoned and they were excited not only the story was liked, but it was also ranked first. They even asked to read it myself during the awards ceremony.

      The story reflects his writing: hectic and tumultuous, even if it takes place within an absolutely motionless. Because basically that's how many of us live: running like crazy up and down in a World unchanging and unchangeable. 

      Prey

      Cold. Snow. The stillness broken only by his run; silence torn from his heartbeat. Faster, faster and faster.

      -If I turn it over ... -

      Thoughts run as his muscles

      -Faster, faster! -

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