EQUILIBRIUM

by Tonino Guerra ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 26, 1969

Vague thoughts drifted through my mind like balloons in the wind."" And recurrent patterns (stones, letters, cabbage leaves, match boxes) are superimposed as they appear to a nameless graphic designer, trigger certain memories, and then are diffused. This short novel, by an Italian script writer, takes place in the chancy limbo of fragmented experience; behind the visual images, there is the debris of the war and a prison camp. Sometimes he ambivalently, ambiguously, commutes between a wife and a mistress, their flat, her flat, all with a frightening sameness. ""Why are things that get lost, for instance, so unwilling to be found?"" Questions without answers in a patchy novel which deliberately blurs the faintest markings. But then confusion is featureless and formless to begin with.

Pub Date: Jan. 26, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Walker

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1969

Categories: FICTION