Sixty years ago the novel by Arbasino, which recounted the boom and scandalized the salons

Cult object, novel-conversation, “to be read as you enter and leave as if at a party”, claimed the author. The manuscript in a safety deposit box and the mystery of the “novel within the novel”, so similar to “Oil”. Then, no more fiction

Certainly asking today in the bookstore for “Fratelli d’Italia” would risk arousing sudden reactions in the reflexive physical salespeople, and who knows what pairings and suggestions would come up instead from the Amazon algorithm (it is a moment that you get “Io sono Giorgia”, or the ‘opera omnia of the Jubilee publishers). However, for the lucky ones who haven’t discovered it yet, reading the work of Alberto Arbasino instead which came out 60 years ago in the fateful 1963, would be a blow to the heart.