“This story is already a novel” only Wilkie Collins can say

The “True Crime” collection of a pen that flies on the page, among very lively stories, capable of nailing characters, vanity and loscaggini

Being a friend of someone has always been a particular sign of the biography of certain writers, at least to read certain flaps and certain paratexts of publishing. The definition of companion is also not bad – it is usually “friend of D’Annunzio”. Cornelius Nepos was a friend of Catullus. Isaac B. Singer told us “a friend of Kafka”. Then came Gadda’s friends and Pasolini’s friends. Pavese’s friends and García Márquez’s friends. Always many friends of Italo Calvino. For years Italo Svevo was, above all, a friend of Joyce.