Janus' Limbo

By Riccardo Maffey

Rome in 1959, just before the release of Fellini's La dolce vita: the nobles of old and the arrivistes, the snobs and the beautiful people, the cinema and the bigots, the pseudo-intellectuals and the artists. And Giada Rovi-Sanlupi, the moody, unconventional daughter of a papal aristocrat. And Germaine Kenneth, the sophisticated bisexual Shakespearian English actress evocative of Canova's Venus Victrix. And the pushy, promiscuous showjumper Bea Alemanni. All come together in a psychological piece of fiction where the mal mari? Cristiano Belisario, its 'internal focalizer', has completed a film dramatization of Pauline Bonaparte's life only to discover that his individual freedom, both as an ambitious screenwriter and as a passionate man, is like the large looking glass of a small drawing room: it merely gives an illusion of space.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1291450947
• ISBN13: 9781291450941
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"