Summary
Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti: Catalog of Friends
Ten women, ten neuroses that feed and comfort each other, ten destinies about which we read alleged reports, ten friends after whom the chapters are named (Cristina, Ludovica, Stefania, Amélie, Francesca, Emanuela, Renata, Margherita, Fabrizia, Emilia), all of them are of mature age, except for the sixteen-year-old daughter of one of them, each of them is existentially assured and has an apparently normal life relationship - but each hides something absurd and hypocritical that makes it special. Only one of them is a truly tragic figure - he commits suicide, and the others are "tragic" only because of the banality of their captivity in everyday life, in which just "staying afloat" requires maximum effort from them. Their "tragedies" are portrayed as farcical and funny, the author gently mocks her "heroines" with love, irony and innocent perfidy.
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