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Michele Mari

You, Bleeding Childhood

You, Bleeding Childhood

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Michele Mari is an Italian author who was raised on comic books and science fiction. He created an alternate universe for himself to escape from the horrors of real life. His childhood obsessions haunt his every adult thought, and "Waking or Sleeping" is his first attempt to catalog this cabinet of wonders. These stories are cult classics and the ideal introduction to a fantasist on par with Kafka, Poe, and Borges.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 11 July 2023
Publisher: And Other Stories


Long before the latest vogue for autofiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's most beloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, and found it crawling with monsters. Raised on comic books and science fiction, the young Mari constructed an alternate universe for himself untouched by uncomprehending grownups or sadistic peers. Compared to the horrors of real life, Long John Silver and Cthulhu made for positively cuddly company; but little boys raised by beasts may well grow up beastly-or never grow up at all. Waking or sleeping, the obsessions of Mari's youth seem to haunt his every adult thought. You, Bleeding Childhood stands as his first attempt to catalog this cabinet of wonders. Cult classics since their first publication, these loosely connected stories stand as the ideal introduction to a fantasist on a par with Kafka, Poe, and Borges.

Long before the latest vogue for autofiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's most beloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, and found it crawling with monsters. Raised on comic books and science fiction, the young Mari constructed an alternate universe for himself untouched by uncomprehending grownups or sadistic peers. Compared to the horrors of real life, Long John Silver and Cthulhu made for positively cuddly company; but little boys raised by beasts may well grow up beastly-or never grow up at all. Waking or sleeping, the obsessions of Mari's youth seem to haunt his every adult thought. You, Bleeding Childhood stands as his first attempt to catalog this cabinet of wonders. Cult classics since their first publication, these loosely connected stories stand as the ideal introduction to a fantasist on a par with Kafka, Poe, and Borges.

Weight: 232g
Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781913505684

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