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The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel (2017. Auflage)

von Giorgio De Maria (Autor)

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In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one anothers personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across the ether." But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Librarys users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day "phenomenon of collective psychosis" culminating in nightly massacres that hundreds of witnesses cannot explain, the Library is shut down and erased from history. That is, until a lonely salaryman decides to investigate these mysterious events, which the citizenry of Turin fear to mention. Inevitably drawn into the citys occult netherworld, he unearths the stuff of modern nightmares: whats shared can never be unshared.… (mehr)
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The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel von Giorgio De Maria

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    Last Days von Brian Evenson (ToadsUSA)
    ToadsUSA: These are both dark, supernatural detective stories. To me they are quite similar in a certain way.
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    The Fisherman von John Langan (sturlington)
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I had high hopes for this book, having heard about it through one of John Coulthart’s frequent links, and then reminded of it from an article in the Verge (https://www.theverge.com/23863059/social-media-20-days-of-turin-giorgio-de-maria). Alas, it did not terrorize me the way others claimed it terrorized them.

To be fair, it takes a lot for a book to get under my skin—perhaps a lack of imagination on my part, or the distancing effect of reading—and _Twenty Days_ has some interesting ideas and a nice sense of growing (and justified) paranoia. It is, I think, a bit Pynchonesque, but perhaps too short and vague to really build up to the level of creepiness that it could have reached. ( )
  cmc | Oct 27, 2023 |
This book by Giorgio de Maria is a classic. On the face of it, the tale is simple - a man investigating the events in Turin many years ago. Someone set up a library in an asylum, and you have the diaries of people in the library.

No one wants to talk of those days or speak of the library. As the book continues, a sense of menace and foreboding will go through you, and the author escapes at the end.

Or, does he? Does he escape? What is he escaping from? You will never know.

Can we escape from ourselves? We will never know.

The writing is simple. Very simple. This simplicity masks the mastery of the writing.

This book is relevant, scary, dystopian and a classic. ( )
  RajivC | Feb 21, 2023 |
Una buona storia, ingiustamente ignorata per troppo tempo, un bell'horror nostrano. Curiosa e geniale la quasi anticipazione dei social network. Da ora in poi, vivendo io a Torino, guarderò le statue con un occhio differente. :) ( )
  L3landG4unt | Oct 11, 2022 |
  chrisvia | Apr 29, 2021 |
"Servirono solo a fornire l'illusione di un rapporto con il mondo esterno: una misera scappatoia alimentata da un potere cinico e centralizzato, interessato a mantenere le persone nel loro stato di perpetuo isolamento"
Leggendo queste parole nel 2020 è impossibile non pensare subito a certi meccanismi perversi dei social network, ma "Le Venti Giornate di Torino" è stato pubblicato nel 1977, quando internet era solo un impalcatura semi vuota confinata in qualche ufficio del Pentagono.
Grazie a queste intuizioni, il libro di Giorgio de Maria si è guadagnato un'aura profetica e, seppur totalmente ignorato in Italia all'epoca della sua prima edizione, è stato riscoperto nei paesi anglosassoni dove è diventato un vera e propria opera di culto.
Ho scoperto questo breve romanzo proprio grazie all'account twitter di un critico letterario britannico ( qui per chi fosse interessato a seguirlo) che lo segnalava come uno dei migliori romanzi horror da lui letti nel 2019. Ovviamente non potevo che comprarlo e leggerlo immediatamente (con buona pace di tutti i libri acquistati e messi a prendere polvere sulla mia libreria).
"Le Venti Giornate di Torino" è un libro Strano e Inquietante (nel senso di Weird e Eerie, nella definizione dei due termini data da Mark Fisher nel suo [b:The Weird and the Eerie. Lo strano e l'inquietante nel mondo contemporaneo|41563228|The Weird and the Eerie. Lo strano e l'inquietante nel mondo contemporaneo|Mark Fisher|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1535830247l/41563228._SX50_.jpg|50205156] ) che pur cercandole, non da risposte. L'anonimo protagonista sta conducendo un'indagine privata su alcuni fatti sconvolgenti accaduti 10 anni prima in città: Un'insonnia di massa che spesso sconfinava nel sonnambulismo, strani sogni e e visioni e poi gli omicidi, brutali omicidi come non se ne erano mai visti in città. Sullo sfondo una strana Biblioteca sita nei locali del Cottolengo che non contiene libri, ma solo sfoghi, confessioni intime, pensieri, flussi di coscenza lasciati li da privati cittadini.
L'atmosfera resa da romanzo non ha nulla a che fare con le classiche leggende sulla Torino Magica, ricorda molto di più quella sensazione di orrore metafisico della porta accanto di alcune opere di Tiziano Sclavi o, in alcune parti, degli Horror di Pupi Avati.
Le Venti Giornate di Torino è un libro assolutamente originale e, per alcuni versi disturbante, da leggere anche se non si apprezza il genere. Difficilmente troverete nel panorama letterario italiano un altro libro che gli assomigli ( )
  JoeProtagoras | Jan 28, 2021 |
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In a far-flung corner of northwestern Italy, girdled by industrial haze, flanked by a crescent of jagged Alps, stands Turin, grandiose necropolis of a town. Baroque palaces, shades neoclassical arcades, interwar military monuments and diverse hordes of bronze statues recall a history as the first capital of modern Italy and, in a fuzzier, earlier time, royal capital of the Kingdom of Savy. -Translator's Introduction
His name, in itself, will mean close to nothing nowadays to people caught up in very different business from our own, but we'll give it regardless: Giovanni Bergesio. You'll find no shortages of Bergesios in Turin, but I doubt that's the reason his identity has gone unremembered. Its simply that fate of all the names that have ever opened long lists of the dead, from natural disasters, from bloods, from cholera outbreaks, from plagues.... Insomnia, Chapter 1
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In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one anothers personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across the ether." But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Librarys users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day "phenomenon of collective psychosis" culminating in nightly massacres that hundreds of witnesses cannot explain, the Library is shut down and erased from history. That is, until a lonely salaryman decides to investigate these mysterious events, which the citizenry of Turin fear to mention. Inevitably drawn into the citys occult netherworld, he unearths the stuff of modern nightmares: whats shared can never be unshared.

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