Summary
Daniele del Giudice: The Moving Horizon
Each continent has its own literature, myths and memories from which stories are created - Antarctica is no exception, claims contemporary Italian writer Daniele Del Giudice in his work The Moving Horizon, winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. He records the visits to the southernmost part of the Earth - both real and imagined - with the attention of a chronicler and the heart of a writer, intertwining his journey through Antarctica at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall with the records of explorers from the end of the 19th century, the last real and great adventure stories, which, in addition to historical importance, are inspired by strong passion and secrecy. The moving horizon, genre novel and travelogue and chronicle, is a moving ode to the power of nature of harsh icy expanses that have been losing the battle with human progress for more than a hundred years. Daniele Del Giudice's Antarctica thus becomes a big and sad mirror of the modern world, but its unreal beauty seduces us and lures us into the polar expanses in the footsteps of adventurers, sailors and icebreakers.
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