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Achilles fast

visionary creativity and storytelling by Stefano Benni are unleashed in a new novel that entertains, amazes and moves, dragging us into a dimension at the same fantastic and real-time, animated by people full of character and feeling. The story has its heart in the unlikely friendship between two original protagonists, who, with their names evoke a timeless mythological ancestry and suggestions epic. Achilles and Odysseus were two heroes metropolitan prisoners of lives lost, forced to live on the brink of bankruptcy and segregation, in a world in shambles and devoid of moral reference. Their great humanity will be able to occur with unexpected force only through a special bond, stronger than any social convention and fear. Fate, in the guise of a mysterious letter, disrupts the peaceful life of Ulysses and inert, a writer in crisis who earns his living by working for a small publishing house, owned dell'inetto Vulcan. His day, punctuated by the insistent requests for publication by the most unlikely of aspiring writers and reading their boring "scrittodattili ', is lit only by love for the solar Pilar, a young Latin beauty, news and Penelope, only lifeline in a sea of \u200b\u200bstrong emotional restlessness, threatened by the seductive arts of women, primarily those of Circe, secretary temptress. The anonymous message is the work of Achilles, a young man was sick and deformed, to want over-protective mother and brother's lucky, the arrival of Phoebus, lives secluded in a room of her old home, stuck at the computer he uses to communicate. Achilles calls a meeting. Ulysses accepts and discovers a young acute intelligence, which, despite the forced isolation, nature has developed a cultured, lively, curious and shameless. Between the two quickly established an absolute complicity fueled the stories of Odysseus, Achilles and listen avidly then transcribed, or rather transformed literary, creating a story within a story. The two, between fair and camaraderie humor seriously, find themselves together to fight a great battle, full of questions, intentions and deeds, until the bitter end but enlightening and liberating. Stefano Benni once again impresses with his ability to tell the great themes of life style and slightly ironic, but sometimes even raw and direct, that prompts us to reflect fun. And his ability to transform reality into a fantasy universe, making it even more real. (Http://www.ibs.it)

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