Appearances (Masks) - Softcover

Gianni Celati, who currently lives in Bologna, is one of Italy's most important writers. In 1990, he was awarded the Mondello Prize, the most important Italian literary award. He is the author of six works of fiction. Appearances is a book of four novellas that play with the distinction between appearance and reality. Like Kafka and Calvino, Celati never loses sight of the fact that a good story is one that entertains and, whether describing the ups and downs of the rugby?mad Barratto, the conditions of light on the Via Emilia, the disappearance of a respectable man or the students in Milan bent on discovering the true meaning of books, the four novellas in Appearances are a dazzling blend of storytelling and philosophical speculation.