The modest apartment in Via Gemito smells of paint and white
spirit. The living room furniture is pushed up against the wall to
create a make-shift studio, and drying canvases must be moved off
the beds each night. Federi, the father, a railway clerk, is
convinced of possessing great artistic talent. If he didn't have a
family to feed, he'd be a world-famous painter. Ambitious and
frustrated, genuinely talented but full of arrogance and
resentment, his life is marked by bitter disappointment. His
long-suffering wife and their four sons bear the brunt. It's his
first-born who, years later, will sift the lies from the truth to
tell the story of a man he spent his whole life trying not to
resemble. Narrated against the background of a Naples still marked
by WWII and steeped in the city's language and imagery, The House
on Via Gemito - first published 20 years ago - is a masterpiece of
contemporary Italian literature.
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