FRUGONIC. “La société humaine sembrò tutta une grossa e grassa bestia, la qual mugliasse epifonemi frugonici ai pupi, avec tono solenne d’authorità, nel momento, proprio, che maggio metteva cinque gambe ai somari” (Carlo Emilio Gadda, Accoppiamenti giudiziosi, II5) .

Paola Italia, cura di, Gaddabolario. Duecentodiciannove parole of the Ingegnere, Carocci 2023,

pp. 176.16.00 euros

Occam’s shave and Beckham’s shave

Agatha Christie, protagonist of the criticism above, also compares in one of the stories of Beckham’s Rasoio, the new book by Roberto Barbolini, as always apt for “misunderstanding and misinterpretation”, starting with confusion with Occam’s Rasoio , which she suggests to search more simply for all the solutions It is possible that Rasoio de Beckham, with the coach of Manchester United, invites the great coach to “direct himself, before entering the field, to the head of the Mohicano ridge. As for the creator of Miss Marpe, she appears in an adult street in the “lapperlà”, with a location in the Mediterranean, entitled L’amante d’Agatha Christie. This is the story told by Barbolini’s narrator as Marlow in Lord Jim and the heart of the story told by Joseph Conrad (a story in Christie’s Baghdad that represents less metaphysics and more the patafise of Kurtz sul fiume Congo). Whatever the character, it is a part of improvement which allows him not to be piaciuta, and his novels do not get rid of his character either, for reasons of plot and realism. In Beckham’s Rasoio, in any case, Christie did not travel alone, my mother in her own company, a man like the assassins of the Orient Express, in his famous novel, traveled in the company of one of the other (and his long life). ). Nei “quid pro quo” of Barbolini, with the author of La Domatrice and Se morisse mon marito, it is the intero and the sceltissimo cast of everything (more or less) his own story: the star of high and pop culture , I letters of romanzetti, I fan of action film, Sylvester Stallone, Umberto Eco, Gunga Din, the shit of the artist of Piero Manzoni. Because Barbolini, another refined writer and writer, is an inesausto observer and reader. This story is still posted for other stories like the pirate forceors, it is still posted for other youngsters and doblons.

Roberto Barbolini,

Beckham’s shaving,

La Nave di Teseo 2024, pp. 352, 18