An autobiographical novel that conveys, with fierce and ruthless frankness, the many doubts and few certainties of an entire generation.

Antonio Capace is a well-heeled young man with intellectual airs who lives in central Rome thanks to the income of his writer father. One day, he writes a letter to his financial consultant saying he wishes to dispose of all his belongings: bank accounts, bonds and shares. Is this the last wish of a man about to commit suicide?
Or a way of finding himself? Halfway between a confession and an indictment, Antonio’s story becomes that of a man who has collected nothing but failures in life, both at his expense and that of anybody who has crossed paths with him, and who, having come to a standstill, reviews his life to try and understand what has driven him to the edge of the abyss. His hope is to come to terms with the sense of inadequacy that appears not to allow his life and an entire wrong era a way out.

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