The Beginnings
Antonio Moresco author Max Lawton translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Deep Vellum Publishing
Publishing:6th Aug '26
£18.99
This title is due to be published on 6th August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
The first book in Antonio Moresco's colossally disruptive Games of Eternity (Giochi dell’eternità) trilogy, translated into English for the first time.
Upon its publication in Italy, The Beginnings was exactly that: the dawning of a new era. Like a photo-negative of Franz Kafka, or Virginia Woolf, Moresco’s sweeping novel turns the stream-of-consciousness inside out, and offers nothing interior. Here, much like in real life, you will not be privy to the thoughts and feelings of others. Everything must be experienced as it happens.
From our narrator’s undergraduate years in seminary school, to his activities as a member of various Italian political factions, to his attempts to become a writer, The Beginnings is a shapeshifting journey across the 20th century, and across all of literature itself.
“A towering absurdist work.” —Publisher's Weekly
“A hypnotic and dreamlike book, punctuated by moments of effervescent clarity.” —Chicago Review of Books
“Shifting beneath the reader’s feet, The Beginnings is a vertiginous, feverishly compelling work, offering a feast of surreal imagery and inventive language to those who approach it patiently.” —Brock Covington
“The prose of The Beginnings is a camouflage that wants nothing more intensely than to fully reveal itself in all of its disruptive possibilities.” —COM-POSIT
“Moresco was asking the question every writer should be asking themselves: How can I invent a language to describe my reality?” —Harold Rogers
ISBN: 9781646053957
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
500 pages