Thursday, October 4, 2007

Emmanuel Patard Meier

Node A low waist to comb

Title: Node to roost (Confessions of an anarchist hairdresser)
Author: Gianluca Mercadante

Publisher: Alacran
Pp.160
E.12, 80
Sunday, May 21 at Pescara at the Library "Primo Moroni" was presented the latest work by Gianluca Mercadante: Node to roost "Confessions of a hairdresser anarchist."
We know the hairdresser has become relatively necessary and indispensable figure in the lives of men and women. True confessor, in difficult times is an outlet for opinions and views without fear and above all, unlike the priest, you can avoid pain and acts of our fathers mumbled repeatedly against "our bad thoughts."
The writer is actually a hair salon, with plenty of shops and customers to "analyze". So the author says. Created a series of stories that revolve around his salon Vercelli. Various characters alternate between styling and color in all their humanity accompanied by their experiences of living is paradoxical that these tragicomic. The result is a product of reading light, unpretentious and funny at times told with humor in order to entertain in an intelligent manner using simple language and modern.
boy of today (was in fact born in Vercelli in 1973), the author approaches to life through the characters he meets through his shop, telling different feelings with the sincerity of a child, but with the irony of an adult.
common and everyday life is the source of inspiration. The emotions we feel entitled to take shape and external. Gianluca he does, he chooses to write.
stories Initially created as a hairdresser book on the Internet (public / private), Giuseppe Caliceti explains in his preface, and then become the subject of reading and shows up to lead the better the book or short story collection.
reading you can not help but think that the book is an autobiography where the author is discovered through his work and analysis of the "subjects / clients and" makes us smile (as for example in the story titled "In the platform") and even move ("Adjusts Course") by pushing in a few moments, through its "watch", the reflection (Marco Pasqualini).
Mercadante told with skill and fresh adventures and people, feelings and fears without boring or overdo it.
writer / hairdresser is not on his debut. He has published several short stories and anthologies and his first work, published by the Bank of Donkey noreply, book and certainly appreciated.
Gianluca Mercadante is yet another demonstration that writing is a hidden need within us, something pushes to tell even after eight hours of hard work. Someone decides to pen a means to express themselves and when the tip encounters a piece of this there are two possibilities: finally be free to write or not write.
No half measures do not need.

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