Luigi Malerba has died

Paolo Mauri writes an obituary to Italian writer Luigi Malerba, who died aged 81 in Rome yesterday. "Luigi Malerba's literary career began in 1963 with the publishing of his volume of stories 'La scoperta dell'alfabeto', ... dry, surreal and imaginative. ... Malerba loved the quiet comedy of Buster Keaton and the character of the bold and melancholic knight Don Quixote. One day he took Pinocchio and put him in the fairytale of Puss in Boots. The stories melt into a wonderful tale about Pinocchio in Boots. ... His last novel 'Il circolo di Granada' is a melancholic and grotesque tale of infidelity and accusations - a manipulation of the genre of the novel. He planned to publish the best essays in the column 'Diary of Disappointments', which was under his charge for years. I am sure that Gigi, as his friends called him, will be disappointed that his death has prevented him from realising his many projects."

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