"The truth when it arrives is a storm" Looking at King Lear the narrative debut of Flavia Gasperttiti

Flavia Gaspertti arrives in the bookstore with her first novel “The truth when she arrives is a storm” published by Bompiani. The debut of this sharp and at the same time delicate pen leads to the reader the theme of the care of a parent in his moment of decline. A physical collapse, which leads each child to question their own fragility on the roles that are reversed and on the ability to build and survive the rubble that are accumulating.

The entire plot is built with a game inspired by the “Re Lear” di Shakespeare And “looking at the fittings” of his staging, he was fallen into an external and modern family. In the decline of Learco until then absolute sovereign in his lifee ccentric father, an internationally renowned architect there are the two daughters Renata and Gabriella, so far lived in the shade now struggling with the delusions of a father who became suddenly unrecognizable. Struggling with an unwilling abdication. Extremely different sisters by character and career, they will suddenly find themselves having to take care of that father who, perhaps unknowingly, has done everything to divide them. And then there is Cora (Transfiguration of the Cordelia of Shakespeare), a very young wife who suddenly disappears without leaving a trace, dying yellow This novel.

The moment of difficulty of this family brings to light a series of questions never too explicit as the one about the origins of Cora: who is it? And on the individual relationship that each of the daughters has had with Legco and on what is now the weight of a heavy legacy to manage, which is not only an individual question but must respond to the expectations of others. Certainly in these pages important, personal and intimate conflicts are consumed. But the first conflict is what everyone feels consuming in itself: when we turn off the light of a parent will we really be able to access ours?