OLTRE L'ORIZZONTE

by Giovanni Margarone

Il libro è uno spaccato della realtà umana, connotata dai suoi pregi, i suoi difetti, le sue contraddizioni, le sue ansie, le sue peculiarità immutabili, le sue fragilità, nel rispetto della molteplicità delle culture, delle fedi religiose e delle idee politiche. È anche una panoramica della situazione della società civile di questi anni, con i suoi problemi, le sue angosce e i suoi lati oscuri. L'intento fondamentale è quello di affrontare ogni tema osservandolo da prospettive diverse, alle volte anche con pensieri forti, cercando di guardare sempre oltre l'orizzonte nel senso della più ampia apertura mentale, che consenta di considerare i fatti con un giusto senso critico sgombro da ogni pregiudizio e condizionamento di sorta.

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Published June 1, 2013

About the author

I was born in 1965 in Alessandria (Italy), from a Sicilian father and a Ligurian mother, I lived in Liguria up to twenty-one years. When I left my country to go to Friuli, for work reasons, it was 1986. I have always been an assiduous reader, also a lover of philosophy and music. Writing and music, in particular, have been, since I was a boy, my natural vocations; for this reason, at the age of 12, while I was studying piano, I tried to write two novels, never published, which I have always jealously kept among my memorabilia. Since then, I have continued to write thoughts, short stories which, however, I have always placed in the drawer, while many have unfortunately been lost.
I am a fiction writer. My novels are more part of those of training, due to the evolution they make (first of all, and not only) the protagonists (from childhood to adulthood, often going back to the origins, digging into the history of the character). Forte is the introspective and psychological component, as well as the evocation of Italian neo-realism of the 1900s, so that the character always remains the central element of the narratives, which could therefore be set in any place. For this reason, the descriptions of the places where the characters move act essentially as a support, without however weighing down, but giving the right emphasis.

Writing cheers me up and why not? I enjoy it. I write to be read, because if I did not write for others, it would be an incomplete activity, an end in itself. Writing to be read is a great responsibility, undoubtedly, but it could not be otherwise. I interpret writing as the most effective means of transmitting feelings, emotions, to induce meditation. This transcendental interpretation of writing is very dear to me, spirituality is part of ourselves and the spirit must be nourished. I always hope that the reader derives nourishment for his spirit from my writings, I think my literary genre allows it, and that he makes the message transmitted through the books his own. Being read also means exposing yourself to criticism. Inescapably, every artist who puts their works in public is exposed and rightly so.
I have always had a strong focus on Russian, French and German nineteenth-century literature (in particular Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Proust, Goethe, Gogol, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Prèvost, Balzac to name a few); without forgetting the references to the Italian twentieth century, in the figures, among others, by Pirandello, Svevo, Cassola, Calvino, Cesare Pavese and Umberto Eco. Authors, as I always say, who made me school , and which I believe have contributed inescapably to my literary and stylistic maturation. I am a firm supporter of the paper version of books of any kind, agreeing with Camilleri when he said that the book is hot; while believing that IT and the web in general are now essential tools for any type of business, including literary ones.
In 2011, taking advantage of the opportunities of the network, I had created an IDEE… blog by Giovanni Margarone from which I had drawn ideas for the essay “Oltre l’orizzonte” published in 2013.
Satisfied with that work, I have so far written and published three novels ande two essays:
“Note fragili” (2018, second edition, Ed. Kimerik),
“Le ombre delle verità svelate” (2018, second edition, Ed. Kimerik),
“E ascoltai solo me stesso” (2019, second edition, Ed. Kimerik),
"Storia di un punto e virgola" (2022. Ed. Bookabook),
“2020 Il mondo si è fermato, ci avrà insegnato qualcosa?” (2021, Amazon, essay).
“Oltre l’orizzonte”(2013, YCP, essay)
In preview, I add that I have written three other novels so far unpublished, which will be published in the future (the writer’s activity never stops!).

In addition, in 2019 one of my stories “The secret of the casone” was included in the anthology “Friulani per sempre” – with an afterword by Bruno Pizzul – published by “Edizioni della sera”.
In November 2019, the Municipal Administration of San Giovanni al Natisone