Le plus et le moins

"I touched the immense in a small amount of space, the relaxation of the body and the energy absorbed by a fresh sea fruit. I was a thing of nature exposed to the season. I gave the name of the island to this freedom. If I'm not a strip of yellow colour from its cracking breeze, fenced by the vines that grow on it, if the chardons don't push my eyes, if I don't dream of the night as a rooster balanced by bradyséismes, I can't learn. Ischia, Naples, Turin, Paris, the Dolomites - the geographical indications that run through the trente-sept texts brought together here are just some of the biographical points of Erri De Luca's life. The freedom encountered in nature as well as in political struggles, fraternity between workers and sharing with foreigners, the reading of the Bible and the figure of the angel are just a few of the themes that the Italian writer explores in Le plus et le moins. An inclusive and iconoclastic book that illustrates the oeuvre and journey of one of the most singular authors of our time.