Fabrizio Ulivieri - TrendSetter

He was about to leave when he heard a burst of laughter from a dark corner of the restaurant and then the cling of cutlery. He recognized the laughter and he smelled his warmth, his smell. A natural perspiration that reached him, unexpected. It was him. They were talking in English and he understood. They were talking about travelling. I love to travel, was saying the little slut. Travelling is the most worthwhile thing you can do. Is there a special place where you would like to go? Asked his (boy?)-friend. Everywhere, basically. But above all to Argentina. Why Argentina? Actually, not Argentina. I meant Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires? Yes. Why? I dunno. But I like the big cities. Is by the sea. I adore Spanish y la sangre caliente de la gente de Argentina... He was surprised that the little slut desired to fly to Buenos Aires. He had the same dream, to fly to Buenos Aires and live there, maybe forever, even though, to be honest, he didn’t like to travel too much. He was convinced that tr...

  I consider writers according to two categories. 1) boring writers 2) writers who make me suffer , About the first category, there is not so much to say. The 98% is boring, pointless, battery-hens-writers. See my post about MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ . About the second category, I include those few writers who, when I read their novels, make me suffer, and I have to read them in instalments. I can read a half page or one page each time, a maximum of two pages, after that the sufferance becomes unbearable, overwhelming, but nonetheless, I return to their pages because that sufferance, in the end, makes me think and opens new unprecedented horizons in front of me. It is well known that scientia dolorem auget . The most typical example is J.M: Coetzee . For example his Disgrace or Slow Man . But the peak is Salvador Besnedra, El traductor. His writing is first of all irritating, hurting, excessive, and displacing...but he teaches new ways of writing, new ways of thinking, and new ways of mi...