He told me that day in May 2025, at the Turin Book Fair, during the book signing: “this is not a normal book; don’t read it all in one go, but one chapter at a time, sporadically.” Needless to say, I didn’t follow his advice. I couldn’t have expected a linear book from someone like Dimitris Lyacos, the most famous contemporary Greek author, increasingly mentioned among the possible Nobel candidates, who during the Turin event delivered one of the most rollicking presentations I have ever witnessed.Original in Italian