A journey among the outsiders of 20th century Italian literature, great irregular writers who for the most diverse reasons have remained outside the canon and literary celebrities and have experienced a belated rediscovery, or have only a niche of passionate readers: with a whimsical, very complicated language and irony of Tommaso Landolfi and Giorgio Manganelli to the uncanny weirdness of Juan Rodolfo Wilcock,
from the overflowing and visionary greatness of Anna Maria Ortese to the biting sweetness of Goffredo Parise, from the cold, poetic and penetrating writing of Marina Jarre to the precious few remaining writings of an immense hidden writer like Cristina Campo, from the dystopian power of Guido Morselli to the attempts to dare a new language to a new literary generation such as those of Pier Vittorio Tondelli, and still others who have dug into the deepest possibilities of the fantastic and the disturbing, of individual and collective memory, in the realms of the unreal and in the most mysterious plains of the real and everyday.
