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Gero Mannella PitchForgot your secret lover dead in your closet? Learn how to make his body disappear without your husband knowing.The storyJessica is an exuberant, attractive, nymphomaniac woman. While she is having sex with her lover, her husband Horace comes home.She dresses quickly and runs to meet him to avoid the worst, convincing him to take a walk.The woman cannot imagine that her lover in panic, instead of escaping, hides in the closet, being stuck with the faulty lock, so dying suffocated.The same night, while heās robbing her apartment, Salvatore pries the closet open and goes into the naked corpse of the man collapses on him, causing him to faint.The noise wakes the woman, upset by the scene.Before Horace wakes up, she must make the dead and the fainted thief disappear. She asks for help from her friend Daria and her boyfriend Valerio, a medicineās student fond in necropsy.To her misfortune, they turn out to be the wrong people to ask for help.[...]Jessica and her friends contemplate the two bodies in the bedroom.A glance at her husband, and Daria can't refrain from the trivial question.āAre you sure you shouldnāt tell him?āāDaria, are you joking? Do you think telling Horace would bring him back to life?ā she hisses resolutely with self-preservation in mind.Valerio supports her.āShall we stop asking stupid questions? Weāre here to help her, arenāt we?āDaria stares at him with a hostile look.āYouāre suggesting to wake Horace up and tell him out of the look, I have a lover, but heās occasional, donāt worry. The problem is that he died. The other man passed out, I donāt know who he is. But donāt heās just a thief.Can you tell things like that to someone just as he wakes?āWomen shake their heads.ā... or should we bring him coffee first?āāI have only decafā says Jessica in a peak of frustration.Reviews"Who cares how it ends? I would reread it three times in a row just for the pleasure of seeing how the human box is described, for the sudden forays of the narrator's voice that desecrates the characters it describes, comments, plays with words and swears, and mutters and observes and redraws the shapes of humans [...]"Luca Martello, journalist, on Lankenauta ["When I crossed paths with Gero Mannella, comets lit up in my eyes and streamers exploded from my teeth. [...] Mannella is a worthy grandson of Georges Perec, he is a thorn stuck in Marcel Duchamp's ulcer [...]"Davide Brullo, editor of Pangea News []"The authors and characters that are often cited when recounting Gero Mannella's work are prestigious, authentic icons of comedy and the wildest humor."Luca Menichetti, journalist, on Lankenauta [The authorGero Mannella is born in the shadow of the Royal Palace of Caserta in the radiant ā60ies. In the ā70ies he moves to the sun and begins to play with the words. In the ā90ies heās finalist at the Italo Calvino Award. During the award ceremony he sits behind the great philosopher Norberto Bobbio, is impressed by his huge earlobes and tries to measure them with a pen. Unfortunately the pen is lost falling into the philosopher's ear, and he is expelled from the final.The trauma causes him an epithelial dyslexia, from which Stelekons In The Tlosec arises.
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