La solitudine del satiro

"Flâneur inverted, paradoxical and light enlightenment, Flaiano walks through Rome and quietly watches her deteriorate. Common places, academics, ambitions, fashions and habits of a culture that, at the end of the sixties, we talk and sparla on are the object and the target of this book posthumous, extraordinary in its hilarious, fulminating icasticity. Miscellanea of stories, anecdotes, memories, scratchy definitions and poignant or disillusioned passions, La solitudine del satiro is crossed by an intellectual feeling that few of our writers have possessed: the intelligence put at the service of disenchantment, a lucid that is cynical and melancholy, but it can not veil love for literature and that, veil to veil the love for literature and the one, hindered, for life, which may even be in war with the literature." --Rough translation from back cover