Sebastiano Testini, “Mai”

“Because I don’t know if people understand what I mean and I don’t know how else to say it, except with words. I have that as a means, they gave me that, everyone only understands that. “ (page 118)

A claustrophobic novel — if it can be defined as such —” Mai” by Sebastiano Testini. You know those comic strips in which places and characters are always identical, the situation only slightly changes from one time to the next? Here, the chapters of this book are like this.

“Yet there is a thread underneath that (…) connects. Looking back, it’s a plot I wouldn’t…