'Mine is an experimental case. It's pushing a man to confess to a
political crime, the last instalment of a forgotten era.' In this
taut novella set in the Dolomites, a cat-and-mouse interview opens
between a young magistrate and an older suspect. It becomes an
examination of perception versus truth and of the group protection
afforded in a moment of collective action versus the echoing
responsibility of the individual over 'the leprosy of time'.
Without evidence, an experienced hiker is held in solitary
confinement under suspicion of murdering a man who fell to his
death on a mountain path. In a series of tense, metered interviews,
the political causes of the suspect's past emerge. The men knew
each other decades earlier, were brothers-in-arms against a greater
social injustice until the victim turned state's evidence and the
accused was sent to prison. Climb the mountain yourself, the old
man urges the young magistrate. Not for confirmation, but to find
out the truth. His past guilt and the suspense surrounding his
guilt now become corollaries to De Luca's central drama of
discovery: the real character of a man and his integrity in the
impossibility of the moment.
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