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Dissipatio H.G.: The Vanishing

Dissipatio H.G.: The Vanishing

Randall, Frederika
Randall, Frederika
Morselli, Guido

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Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1681374765
ISBN13: 9781681374765
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Dec 1 2020
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A fantastic and philosophical vision of the apocalypse by one of the most striking Italian novelists of the twentieth century.

From his solitary buen retiro in the mountains, the last man on earth drives to the capital Chrysopolis to see if anyone else has survived the Vanishing. But there's no one else, living or dead, in that city of holy plutocracy, with its fifty-six banks and as many churches. He'd left the metropolis to escape his fellow humans and their struggles and ambitions, but to find that the entire human race has evaporated in an instant is more than he had bargained for. Meanwhile, life itself--the rest of nature--is just beginning to flourish now that human beings are gone.

Guido Morselli's arresting postapocalyptic novel, written just before he died by suicide in 1973, depicts a man much like the author himself--lonely, brilliant, difficult--and a world much like our own, mesmerized by money, speed, and machines. Dissipatio H.G. is a precocious portrait of our Anthropocene world, and a philosophical last will and testament from a great Italian outsider.

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