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    San Salvi

    by Lee Foust

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    Unable or perhaps unwilling to speak, a catatonic patient wanders the halls, between the buildings, and along the circular tree-lined avenue inside the walled enclosure of San Salvi, Florence, Italy’s former insane asylum. This short novel consists of the unspoken words of its narrator’s struggle to reconcile his individuality with conformity, his interior solitude with the social world, silence with speaking.

    The book contains both an English and an Italian version of the text (translated by the author in collaboration with Italian poet Verusca Costenaro), as well as illustrations by artist Tatiana Stadnichenko. An audio version of the text with musical accompaniment by Robert English is available at bandcamp.
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    • Primary Category: Literary Fiction
    • Additional Categories Literature & Fiction Books
    • Project Option: 6×9 in, 15×23 cm
      # of Pages: 96
    • Isbn
      • Softcover: 9798211973367
    • Publish Date: Sep 22, 2022
    • Language English
    • Keywords catatonia, madness, illustrated, San Salvi, novel
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    LeeFoust
    Lee Foust
    Naples, Italy

    Lee Foust is a fiction writer and performer from Oakland, CA who's lived in Italy since the mid-'90s. He teaches literature and creative writing at the Sant'Anna Institute in Sorrento and is the father of one. Lee is the author of 7 books: Poison and Antidote, nine tales of the San Francisco underground of the 1980s, Inbetween, a novel of love and anarchy, Here Lies..., a punk rock historical novel inspired by the life of Baroque architect Francesco Borromini, Fake Novel, a multi-voiced political satire about Donald Drumpf's human centipede administration, San Salvi, the interior monologue of a catatonic detainee in Florence's madhouse (in both English and Italian with illustrations by Tatiana Stadnichenko), Sojourner: Collected Poetry 1981-2023, and The Three Living Meet the Three Dead, an epic novel-in-frames in two volumes in which six tale-tellers tell a tale a night for a week. Upcoming on Bastille Day 2025: Two Wheels on Whitewashed Hallway Walls, a giallo set in Florence.

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