BOOK – Interesting text on sale in the five Panassi bookshops to Sant’Ambrogio, Rivoli, Susa, Oulx and Giaveno.
THE BOOK OF THE DAY
The book of the day in the Panassi bookshops: “Nocturnal animals” by Carlotta Vagnoli. At the end of the noughties, Milan was the center of the universe: as soon as the sun went down, an entire generation found itself underground to party until dawn. These are years of indie music and legendary evenings, of clubs with selection at the entrance, of endless drunkenness and skinny jeans, of afters when it’s already daylight outside and above all of cocaine, lots of cocaine. The empire of the night is chaotic and desperate, and for this reason it cannot last. When G throws himself into the void from the sixth floor, it’s as if everything came down with him. As if, after a long fall, the moment of landing had arrived for the nocturnal animals. A synthetic and acid novel, which is both denunciation and ferocious cry. Carlotta Vagnoli wrote without ever feeling pity, not even towards herself, reminding us on every page that none of us are truly innocent.
If you’re in your twenties in the Noughties, your chances are slim. The myth of work in a suit and tie, with a mortgage and bourgeois aspirations, is pure utopia. This also applies to Milan, which however lives a double existence: during the day it is the gray city of offices and turnover, after sunset it becomes a seductive metropolis in which to abandon yourself. And then, since the future is no longer an option, all that remains is the night. And with the night the music, the alcohol, the cocaine, the PR people, the cubists, the bouncers and the queues in front of the clubs. It is on these evenings that we meet Mick, the prince of parties, and Mon Chéri, who earns his living doing lap dances. And then there is a girl with red hair who in that glittering and bizarre world would desperately like to understand who she really is. Together with the nocturnal animals we move in a swarm: from the bars where we get drunk to the underground clubs, from the humid air of the nightclubs to the after-hours in the apartments while it is already dawn outside.
The goal is to participate in a very long, infinite party, because if everyone wants it at the same time, maybe the sun won’t rise over Milan the next day. But when people start jumping from buildings, and when the presence of a sexual predator generates a climate of psychosis, the nocturnal animals understand that their territory is under attack. With the confidence of someone who drank those years by the drop, Carlotta Vagnoli captures the end of an era and the beginning of another. When cell phones still had real buttons, Facebook took its first steps and we stayed in touch on Myspace. After having found the most effective words to talk about feminicide and gender violence, with this lysergic novel Vagnoli gives voice to a generation perpetually excluded, exploited, set aside: that of millennials. The first real shattered photograph of girls and boys that someone, one day, decided to chew up and spit out without even looking in their eyes.
THE PANASSI BOOKSHOPS
In addition to the usual telephone numbers of bookstores, for the sales points of Rivoli and Giaveno you can contact the number 339 2535360 on WhatsApp.
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