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I Demoni is a collection of stories hovering between thriller and noir, and although they are completely different both in location and in theme, from law courts to China at the time of the Great Change, they are all guided by the demons that prowl in human communities, from the nightmares/memories of the alcoholic that form the essence of his genius, to the delusions of omnipotence springing from having accomplished the perfect crime, to the fear of losing our future just when we have found it against all hope. But these demons are real, existing independently from the characters of the stories, incontrollable and ineluctable, and each story develops a specific theme: dictatorship in Demoni and Scatole Cinesi, racism in L’età dei Mostri, jealousy in La Siciliana, indolence in L’Eclissi, crime and its motivations in La Scommessa and Braccio 17, time and its mystery in L’Assassino di Via Kremoy; Il Giardino Blu and Il Volo owe something to the biographies of M.Lowry and L.Wittgestein.

• Leo Emanuela 

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