ISBN 9791280789525
authors Lorenzo Bracco Dario Voltolini
fiction series
128 pages with illustrations
cover price € 18.00
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Two friends. A ship. A journey that is much more than a cruise: it is a rebirth. A psychotherapist and a man of letters, united by a deep friendship and years of intellectual complicity, decide to set sail for the Mediterranean. It is not just an escape from daily life, but a deliberate act of care: an attempt to put themselves back together in a fragile and complex moment of their lives.
What is born is a surprising logbook, written four-handed with lively, ironic pens brimming with life. They recount the enchantment of the landscapes, yes, but also the inner tides: the thoughts that surface between a joke and a silence, the emotions that creep in between buffets and excursions.
With a direct and engaging style—which they self-deprecatingly define as asyntactic and post-mental—the two authors guide us on a journey through places, encounters, laughter, insights, and reflections. The reader is welcomed as a cabin mate, free to be carried away by fascinating descriptions, irresistible gags, moments of beauty, and unexpected cues that make you think, and sometimes move you.
Every page is a port, every anecdote a wave, every reflection a route. It is a book for those who love to look at the world with different eyes, for those who know that even in the midst of a floating village one can find poetry, thought, and truth. For those who need lightness without superficiality. For those who seek, from time to time, to slow down and breathe.
Because, as Proust wrote, “the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
This book is an invitation to wear them.