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Fabrizio Ulivieri Rugíle Rome, Italy. L’Erudita/G. Perrone Ed. 2017 A Review by Anna Ciampolini Foschi An aging intellectual, still struggling with the aftermath of a mysterious and debilitating illness, seeks solace in a series of sexual encounters with much younger women. Simply put, this is not a new theme for a novel, but author Fabrizio Ulivieri manages to deconstruct the conventional notion of love and sexuality and to add layers of psychological and emotional depth to his tormented main character and his lovers. Although the descriptions of explicit, often extreme sex are attracting a lot of attention to Rugíle, Ulivieri’s latest novel, much darker, primeval fears powerfully emerge as the focus of this narrative. Rugíle is indeed an odyssey of the senses, an attempt to transcend the boundaries of normalcy but, above all, is a mournful, cerebral elegy, an exorcism about impermanence, fear, aging, and death. The unnamed protagonist and his lovers are all doomed sou...

Shortly Rugìle will be reviewed in Canada by Anna Ciampolini Foschi  Anna Ciampolini Foschi lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is a short story writer, anthology editor and journalist. She is a co-founder of the Association of Italian Canadian Writers and the co-founder and co-Chair of the F.G. Bressani Literary Prize, sponsored by Vancouver’s Italian Cultural Centre.  About Rug í le, she says: “The novel’s genre was rather new to me. Writing a review from my point of view was an interesting experience.” COMPRA su Amazon: Rugìle Il sorriso della meretrice Amore šaltibarščiai e pomodori rossi Cecilia Seguici su  Facebook