CRITIQUE – The janitor of a school remembers her meeting, forty years earlier, with a literature teacher to whom she never confessed her love. Deeply disturbing.
Marco Lodoli's entire work sheds light on beings on the margins and ordinary lives. Since its appearance in the Éditions POL catalog in 1987 with Chronicle of a century that fledthe Roman writer tirelessly examined the cracks and fluctuations, playing with reality and unreality. We had already found him an admirable portraitist of women with the three short novels brought together in The Promises. The magnificent So little is today carried from start to finish by its anonymous heroine. A woman who has never moved from where she is. A woman claiming to be part of “little people » and confessing to having no regrets.
Forty years earlier, she was 26 and working as a school assistant, “i.e. concierge“. Every morning, it was her responsibility to open the gate at 7 a.m. at a school in Torre Maura, on a small hill in the southeast of Rome, where she looked after the stewardship. One rainy day in September, a…
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