Bøger om Geniale

Der er gået to år, siden Angelica kom ud af fængslet, men dommen klæber stadig til hende, og hun har svært ved at finde fodfæste i tilværelsen. Anderledes er det gået hendes bror Martin, der efter sin dom er blevet gift. Hans problem er, at han keder sig. Da han får mulighed for at tjene penge på forfalskede pas, griber han den, men pludselig griber “forretningen” om sig.

"Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was uttered under his breath, in the apartment that my parents, newly married, had bought in Rione Alto, at the top of Via San Giacomo dei Capri. Everything—the spaces of Naples, the blue light of a very cold February, those words—remained fixed. But I slipped away, and am still slipping away, within these lines that are intended to give me a story, while in fact I am nothing, nothing of my own, nothing that has really begun or really been brought to completion: only a tangled knot, and nobody, not even the one who at this moment is writing, knows if it contains the right thread for a story or is merely a snarled confusion of suffering, without redemption."