Fellinesque has all the qualities of Bianchi's tightly written poetic gems, the sense of surprise, the sharp, intelligent wit and a narrative poised between the visionary and the incongruous. What unfolds is at once familiar and surreal; always unsettling and often comic. Like a Fellini film, Fellinesque sets out a world that is natural, yet constantly altered by the power of imagination. Reality and imagination are of a piece for Bianchi as they were for Fellini and, like Fellini, he wants to show a man in all his aspects ...
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Fellinesque has all the qualities of Bianchi's tightly written poetic gems, the sense of surprise, the sharp, intelligent wit and a narrative poised between the visionary and the incongruous. What unfolds is at once familiar and surreal; always unsettling and often comic. Like a Fellini film, Fellinesque sets out a world that is natural, yet constantly altered by the power of imagination. Reality and imagination are of a piece for Bianchi as they were for Fellini and, like Fellini, he wants to show a man in all his aspects - past, dreams, memories, physical and mental life, all without chronology. So we meet Lorenzo and the characters and world that he creates, god-like, yet cannot always control; a world where we listen with Kafka; visit the French Revolution via a bad production of one of Pirandello's comedies; move forward and back in time and across seasons encountering characters who know what their creator has planned; discuss literature with Zelda Fitzgerald and muse on Baudrillard, who has nothing to say about swallows, but plenty about deception. Fellinesque sets out to explore reality with the sensibilities of Italo Calvino and the philosophical depth of Andres Nueman; dryly comic, full of allusion and ambiguity, Fellinesque is a unique and astonishing fiction debut. "A fascinating read, and the colourful panoramas we are offered are as attractively bizarre as a Ionesco play. It reminds me of the old concept of Divine Providence being an author who takes part in the staging of his work, a sort of actor-manager, responding and adapting as the created characters and situations react with suggestions he has to respond to... challenging, rewarding, and a pleasure to read." Harri Pritchard Jones
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Add this copy of Fellinesque to cart. $7.82, very good condition, Sold by Prominent Trading Company rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, HEREFORDSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2013 by Cinnamon Press.
