GHIACCIO

THE LONELINESS OF A CHILDHOOD TURNS INTO A HALLUCINATORY REALITY, IN THE MASTERPIECE OF ONE OF THE GREATEST SCI-FI AUTHORS OF THE '900s.
Three characters: a narrator in constant search of an elusive albino girl and an antagonist, now husband, now jailer. The story unfolds through continuous space-time misalignments, in an unclassifiable novel, crossed by a continuous passage from the dream state to the waking one, surrounded by the advance of an ice that is real, perhaps due to a nuclear disaster, but which also symbolizes the advance of the inevitable, the drug that gains ground, the habit of an end that becomes more and more inescapable every day. Male authority and power are noted through a language that splits: while the hunter shapes his prey, Kavan, a conscious writer, shapes the hunter, sculpting him and her in the ice.