PORTICOS – Saturday 25 May at 6 pm, the beautiful Villa Fernandes, common good of the Municipality of Portici, hosts a new literary meeting.
Presented in the beautiful Villa from the early 1900s – an asset confiscated from the Camorra and which has become a place open to the population since 1999 – his new novel “Two minutes of hell”,
.published by the Roman publishing house La Bussola, is Giorgio Attanasio
Originally from Naples, Giorgio Attanasio has lived and worked in San Giorgio del Sannio for over
twenty years. After years dedicated exclusively to business consultancy in the agri-food sector, he
finally returns to writing, a decades-long passion that has never died down.
The novel “Two Minutes of Hell” is a fast-paced dream thriller that expertly mixes reality, dreams
.and mysticism, glueing the reader to the book.
The narrative plot unfolds gradually between the pages, moving from a context of normality and cold
.rationality to one that is increasingly dreamlike, with dark hues, mystery, fear, death and damnation.
Marco, a brilliant Roman journalist and “debunker”, firm opponent of magicians, magic and
esotericism, takes part in a live radio talk show in a small Tuscan village. With his interlocutor Marco is called to discuss, from the point of view of those who ‘do not believe’, diabolical possession. Five minutes from the end of the broadcast, the breathless voice of a listener, who claims to have been deceived by Satan, bursts into the studios like a bolt from the blue. The calm and calm tones of the live broadcast suddenly give way to tension. Mocked and mocked by Marco, the woman addresses her last desperate but terrible words to him: “You are cursed!” Strangely shaken by that last intervention, Marco leaves the radio studios in the middle of a violent storm. After getting lost among the intricate streets of the Tuscan countryside, tiredness, nervousness and the incessant rain play a bad joke on him. When he manages to distinguish the silhouette of a child, motionless in the center of the road, it is too late to brake and the accident is now inevitable. His car violently hits a light pole. Marco will wake up, still groggy, the following day, in the remote farmhouse of the Corsini family. From that moment on, the forced coexistence with this family, spent waiting to be able to reach a tow truck or the nearest train station, will be a crescendo of anguish, nightmares and daydreams; the events (which gradually become more and more dreamlike) will accompany him to discover horrendous and unspeakable truths
The surprise ending will hit all the events and characters narrated with devastating force, helping to give a new dark light to the whole story which, in the worst way possible, will spiral in on itself, reconnecting to the events narrated at the beginning of the story and to the two minutes that Marco gives to the woman: two minutes of hell.
