{:en}PRESS RELEASE (17/07/2017)
Tuesday, July 18, a Loano a new meeting of the sixth edition of the review will be held Culture Tuesdays organized by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano in collaboration with Event Size e Mondadori Bookstore Loano.
In the’Summer Arena Prince's Garden, to the 6 p.m., the audience will meet the author Silvio Carrara Sutour who will present “Deliria de profundis” (Black Moon, 2017)
“Deliria de profundis” is a collection of fantastic tales, representations of feelings, episodes of lived life, reworking of ancient sacred texts, myths and dreams. Such heterogeneous miscellany of layered notes, sedimented, revised and corrected, took a gradually more organic form until the final product, a visionary narrative of reality, seen from a perspective of individual and collective delirium. The stories travel between the real and the imaginary, intended to depict terror and decadence as part of man and his daily travail; they unravel either in the places where the author was born and still lives (the western Ligurian Riviera and the hinterland), to which he sometimes mutates the names using etymological criteria, or in imaginary places.
Leading the meeting will be Graziella Frasca Gallo. In addition to the author, the following will be present Carmine Valendino, president of the “LunaNera” Association. The presentation will be accompanied by the performance of musical pieces by Maestro Roberto Sinito.
Proceeds from book sales will be donated to charity to the’Artemisia Gentileschi Association.
The book's introduction reads, “If the author were to sum up the writings collected in the book in one sentence, he would state: horror is always with us and our authentic inner essence is delirium and anguish, since it is toward emptiness that like shadows we walk. That is, the real horror is not that of literary or cinematic works, which represent in images, words and symbols human thoughts, but that of real life, the pendulum swinging between Schopenhauer's pain and boredom. It is a real and perceptible horror, in which little room is left for the supernatural and much for the everyday, the unconscious, the dreamlike. One can find in such a context sorrow and human pietas, not optimism.
The author makes no secret of the influences on him exerted both by philosophers such as Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and the never quite adored Leopardi of the Zibaldone, and by storytellers such as Poe and Lovecraft, and poets such as (again) Leopardi, Milton and Wordsworth. Often explicit quotations from works by the aforementioned or others summarize the key to a story, the underlying message.
Finally, the title of the book pays homage to Thomas De Quincey, author of Suspiria de profundis, a piece by Confessions of an opiate addict.
Silvio Carrara Sutour dedicated the book to his wife Monica, who, overcoming his strong reluctance with great patience and stubbornness, deemed the bitter amusements elaborated on paper worthy of interest and convinced him to publish them, finding fertile ground in the small but learned publishing house LunaNera.
A thanks the author reserves for his own family, from whom he learned to approach any text without prejudice and to think critically and, above all, freely.”{:}
