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Ignazio Alfieri Gentilli

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Ignazio Alfieri Gentilli is an Italian novelist. His fiction explores what remains of a person when the surface is stripped away — in objects, in the body, in ideas, in consciousness itself.
His debut trilogy approaches the same underlying question from three directions. The Geometry of Traces follows a man who clears condemned buildings before the wrecking ball arrives, moving floor by floor through the residue of lives he will never know. The Glass Code enters a basement laboratory where a researcher tries to stop the biological clock built into every human cell — and confronts what happens when the body's countdown stops being a problem and becomes a question. The Echo of Minds maps the phenomenon historians call multiple discovery: the s ...more

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	THE GEOMETRY OF TRACES: A novel of rebirth it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Life wasn't stability. It was loss. And for the first time, that loss seemed to him a form of freedom.”
― Ignazio Alfieri Gentilli, THE GLASS CODE: The return to dust

tags: change, existentialism, freedom, life, loss, philosophy

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“Nothing is ever just trash.”
― Ignazio Alfieri Gentilli, THE GEOMETRY OF TRACES: A novel of rebirth

tags: identity, loss, memory, minimalism, phylosophy, transformation

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“Un uomo libero ha il dovere di risorgere dalle proprie macerie e di rinnegare il proprio nome se quel nome è diventato una catena pesante.”
― Ignazio Alfieri Gentilli, LA GEOMETRIA DELLE TRACCE: Romanzo di una rinascita

tags: identità, libertà, macerie, memoria, rinascita, vita

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“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Nothing is ever just trash.”
― Ignazio Alfieri Gentilli, THE GEOMETRY OF TRACES: A novel of rebirth

tags: identity, loss, memory, minimalism, phylosophy, transformation

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tags: identità, libertà, macerie, memoria, rinascita, vita

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“Il talento non è un dono: è un software che qualcuno ti ha installato nel cervello senza chiederti il permesso. È una prigione dorata che ti costringe a essere quello che gli altri si aspettano, impedendoti di essere quello che sei.”
― Ignazio Alfieri Gentilli, LA GEOMETRIA DELLE TRACCE: Romanzo di una rinascita

tags: esistenzialismo, filosofia, identità, letteratura, memoria, narrativa, talento

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“Life wasn't stability. It was loss. And for the first time, that loss seemed to him a form of freedom.”
― Ignazio Alfieri Gentilli, THE GLASS CODE: The return to dust