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BOOKS I READ: Dissipatio: H. G. (The Vanishing) (1977) by Guido Morselli (translated by Frederika Randall, 2020). The digressions and philosophizing of the last man on Earth, a flawed character who somehow survives dissipatio, the Event, when all other members of the humani generis vanish. The narrator goes into a cave near his mountain home intending to commit suicide. When he is unable to act on his plan, he comes back out, discovering everyone else is gone. Much of the book is spend trying to answer his question, “Me: chosen one or outcast”?
Upon having this, his seventh novel, rejected by publishers, Guido Morselli committed suicide. His books were published posthumously.
NB: using Medium’s shortform posts to chain my recent reads. Go to previous book:
