Blue Library
9830 Terrore piccolo borghese
Anna Maria Guerrieri
1973 / 160 PAGES.
Language: Italian
These tales “of terror” unfold against a backdrop of apartments and cities. An appalling attempt at murder, the pure yet cruel encounter between a pair of teenagers, the consummation of a marriage are the topics of three perfect short stories.
With an alarming feminine sensitivity, Anna Maria Guerrieri sheds light on the haunted life of a couple, shifting imperceptibly from unease to nightmare. Her analytical style, partly indebted in its vocabulary to psychology and sociology, aims to detect relations belonging to the classic repertoire of Freudian imagination. Though it appears to want to say and describe everything, ultimately all it conveys is an aura of shadow and suspicion, of the double-sidedness of everything.