Mirko Tondi, “Istruzioni di fuga per principianti”

For the way it stands, for the cultured citations, for the way it dialogues with the reader, it seems to me that this novel aspires to be a little more than it is. “Escape Instructions for Beginners” contains many cinematic clichés. The escape on the road, the stolen suitcase, the journey with the grandmother (which reminds us of Mimmo’s in “Bianco, Rosso and Verdone”).

The journey is very limited in space and time, lasts one day and one night only, winds through the Grosseto Maremma, from Amiata to the coast, and ends in Follonica, between…