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Rating: One of the literary contests without a lot of fuss and fanfare is ILMIOLIBonline — in this case, branded 2019. It concluded today with the publication of the list of winning titles. The event aims to become a valuable expression of literary scouting on the web. Its utmost freedom — there are no economic brand participations, so only the opinion of online readers counts — is undoubtedly the factor that attracts anyone who loves to read. Benefiting from the collaboration with numerous partners, it saw the participation of numerous works.
The categories in competition (comics & illustrated, fiction, poetry, essays) were all of excellent quality. Alongside the work of our editorial partners, the contributions of writers and readers from the community were added. Here are the names of those who were voted.
First position. Richard Powers, The Overstory (La nave di Teseo)
There are lives that can be told through the importance a single tree manages to have in them, and then there are adventures that have trees as protagonists or co-protagonists: it all happens in The Overstory by Richard Powers, which takes two hundred pages to introduce, chapter after chapter, the nine protagonists in gripping but unrelated stories.
Second position. Sally Rooney, Normal People (Einaudi)
Normal People is not a novel intended, by the author's own admission, to dismantle the classic form of a literary narrative. On the contrary, it follows a rather conventional structure and focuses more on the pure narration of the characters than on the form or language — where small stylistic innovations can be noticed.
Third position. Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin (La nave di Teseo)
As Cristiano de Majo wrote here on Studio, Houellebecq's new book seems to have been born from an automatic Houellebecq novel generator (and this is not necessarily a flaw: he has practically created a genre). Once again, it's a book difficult to put down.
Two special mentions were also awarded; the first went to Mimmo Parisi, The Star of Geq (LFApublisher). His text tells the story of a boy who, arriving at the world's station with the most battered suitcase imaginable — filled haphazardly with the physical ugliness and mental incapacity — manages to overcome the existential impasse by turning to the world of books. The second mention was given to Gianrico Carofiglio, Fenoglio’s Version (Einaudi). The title of his work cites the protagonist of the work, Pietro Fenoglio, an old officer who has seen it all; who — together with Giulio, a sensitive twenty-year-old — manages to lead the reader into the most unexpected of situations.
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