January 1931. Giulia lives in a Zurich hotel, almost like an exile. She is being treated by Jung in the hope that depth psychology can help her understand and overcome the crisis with which she struggles. Ignazio Silone, an Italian revolutionary, is also a patient of Jung’s. His existence is at a turning point: he has been accused of betrayal and double-dealing by Togliatti, no longer believes in the Communist Party and wants to abandon politics and become a writer. Giulia and Ignazio meet one cold morning in Platzspitz park and for a year, as Nazism rises in Germany and European democracy is thrown into crisis, they fall in love, loving one another despite the unbridgeable intellectual distance between them and their antithetical visions of the world. With precise, sensitive prose, Giuliano Gallini takes inspiration from a real story to speak about a defining moment in European twentieth century history. A novel which invites us to reflect upon how a brief but intense love story from the last century can also have something to say about us and our time.
Giuliano Gallini was born in Ferrara and lives in Padua. He is a manager in one of the largest Italian service companies and deals with the company’s development, strategic marketing, communication and cultural policies. Nutrimenti has published his first novel, Il confine di Giulia (Giulia’s limit) and Il secondo ritorno (The Second Return).
Pub date: January 2017
Length: 144 pp
La Stampa
Sergio Pent
Silone e la sua Giulia, amore amaro a Zurigo
Cultura & Spettacoli
Cesare De Michelis
Amore, esilio e letteratura, nei panni di Ignazio Silone
Mangialibri
Giulia Dattilo
Giulianio Gallini - Il confine di Giulia
Emozioni in font
Viviana Calabria
Nichilismo o inganno ideologico/Il confine di Giulia
la Repubblica
Barbara Ardù
Silone innamorato
Gazzetta di Reggio
Andrea Mastrangelo
L’Europa “di mezzo” attraverso il dramma di Ignazio Silone
Il Mattino di Padova
Nicolò Menniti-Ippolito
«Scrivere è il mio antistress»
Il Messaggero
Giulia Ciarapica
Convenzionali
Gabriele Ottaviani
Donna Moderna
Alessandra Appiano
La Città
Il confine di Giulia, nel romanzo di Gallini il Silone innamorato