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Informationen zum Autor Giuseppe Conte was born in Imperia, Italy and studied at the University of Milan earning a degree in literature in1968. Poetry books include L'Ultimo aprile bianco (The Last White April) and L'Oceano e il Ragazzo. Le stagioni, (The Seasons) won the Montale Prize. The collection titled Dialogo del poeta e del messaggero (Dialogue between the Poet and the Messenger), includes the poetry suite Democrazia (Democracy) which touches on themes and tones of civil poetry. The last poetry volumes include Canti d?Oriente e d'Occidente (Songs of the East and the West), Nuovi Canti (New Songs) and Ferite e rifioriture (Wounds and reflorescences), which won the Viareggio Prize. Novels include Il terzo ufficiale (The Third Officer In Command) which won the Hemingway Prize, and La casa delle onde (The House of the Waves), about the wreck of Shelley in 1822, and selected by the Strega Prize. Other writings include L'adultera, (The Adulteress), a book of essays on travel and myth which won the Manzoni Prize, two opera libretto. Klappentext Imagine the contours of an obsession.?The distance between Angelina's lips and the contours of a Laguna Beach sunset is not great. Angelina's Lips is a story of the main character, Umberto Umber?s, homonymal identity; a story of the search for what is not one's self.?There are many ways to recount such a loss: live through the opportunity of homonymity (the same as anonymity?), or roll to the edges and corners of a continent.?Southern California offers just such an opportunity, tucked on the edge of the Pacific (itself a contradiction) and, paradoxically, a terminus of sorts where life finds continuous renewal even if only on celluloid. As Angelina's Lips unfolds, the character Jamshid Kloster tells the protagonist Umber: ?If you?re interested in future novels, we must travel to the libraries of the future. The libraries of the future are the memories of the present, memories of travel, visitation, dialogue and observation, all of which accumulate their effect as they are translated beyond our own experiences and languages.?The intimacy of a memory travels via its retelling, as Conte has done with his, and as Roberto Buranello has done in his excellent recounting of it in English. -- Pasquale Verdicchio...
