the twenty days of turin by giorgio de maria

De Maria's novel is a good complement to Pynchon, and perhaps an even more relevant work for our era. And the most disturbing thing about it is how appropriate it is for ours., The paranoia of The Twenty Days of Turin calls to mind a work of similar portent: Thomas Pynchon's sclerotic, satirical 1966 novel, The Crying of Lot 49. It was a book written for a different world. No Gibson, no Sterling, no cyberpunk or spec-fic scribbler of the ''''80s or ''''90s ever captured the poisoned zeitgeist of social media better than this. There was a disquieting commonality between its intended place and moment and the one we find ourselves in now. De Maria's style is enjoyable and timeless., Remarkably prescient. On the other hand, it is also a fun, fast-paced horror story in which the city is the main character, the past and present bleed into each other, and paranoia takes center stage. On one hand, the narrative is a smart allegory for the feelings of tension and terror that abounded in Italy in the 1970s and a predictive text that nails online (non)communication in ways that most cyberpunk novels failed to do. This novel offers a perfect prediction of the internet era. And the most disturbing thing about it is how appropriate it is for ours., Giorgio De Maria's The Twenty Days of Turin is more than a book it is a literary event.

No Gibson, no Sterling, no cyberpunk or spec-fic scribbler of the ''80s or ''90s ever captured the poisoned zeitgeist of social media better than this.

It may be the novel that foreshadows our moment more accurately than any number of speculative fictions.A welcome and timely addition to the weird fiction of distinctly earthly terrors., In The Twenty Days of Turin, De Maria predicted contemporary society's loneliness, cruelty, and voyeurism decades early and with unnerving accuracy-a haunting, eerily prescient novel., Remarkably prescient. This is a book written in 1975 and featuring no technology more advanced than high-end analog audio recordings, yet it grasps the implications of social media in ways cyberpunk never did. A writer of uncanny, occult powers, De Maria has crafted an intensely relevant allegory that will take its rightful place alongside the darkest of Saramago and Poe., An admirable translation. The Twenty Days of Turin is an unholy masterwork of the macabre, more than just a beautifully terrifying ghost story.

The twenty days of turin by giorgio de maria