It is not the publishing giants that dictate the rhythm of the witch 2025, but the inner cracks. Those of identity, mind, memory. The dozen who has just announced in Rome is a journey into contemporary fragility: depression, trauma, loss, lives that tell themselves so as not to implode. “In 2025 mental health is a social emergency, but also literary,” said Melania Mazzucco, president of the Management Committee, making it clear that this year the prize looks straight in the eye the psychic discomfort.
The ego is the real protagonist: sometimes autobiographical, sometimes reinvented, but always under stress. “The story of the ego predominates: the so -called Autophic or the actual autobiography with its glories and its miseries”, explained Mazzucco, tracing a lucid picture of the narrative that works today – and hurts, in the right way.
To guide the dozen there are strong names like Andrea Bajaniwith The anniversary (Feltrinelli), proposed by Emanuele Trevi: an intense and ruthless novel about the detachment from the parents, on the liberation by a dysfunctional family and on the emotional legacy that we carry inside. Nadia Terranova come back with What I know of you (Guanda), proposed by Salvatore Silvano Nigro, confirming himself one of the most authoritative voices of Italian narrative abstitute. AND Paolo Noriwith I close the door and scream (Mondadori), proposed by Giulia Ciarratica, sinks in the grotesque to tell the inner decay.
But the strength of this edition is all in the mixture of styles, generations and paths. There is Elvio Carrierijust twenty years old, with Poor to us (Ventanas), surprising debut between social distress and urban anger. There is Michele Ruoldoctor and playwright, with Inventory of what remains after the forest burns (Terrarossa), proposed by Walter Veltroni: a debut that speaks of loss and emotional resistance. There is the lyrical and restless voice of Renato Martinoniwith Memories of sounds and lights. History of a poet and his madness (Manni), a title that, already from the subtitle, embodies the common thread of the entire edition.
Next to them, Valerio Aiolli with Portofino blues (Voland), melancholy fresco between irony and identity decomposition, e Saba Anglana with Mrs. wonder (Sellerio), who intertwines family memory and journey of discovery. Also noteworthy Deborah Gambetta with Incompleteness. A story by Kurt Gödel (Ponte alle Grazie), philosophical biography of the tormented genius, e Wanda Marascothat with From behind this world (Neri Pozza) returns to its most loved themes: mothers, body, language of loss.
Closes the dozen Elisabetta Rasy with Lost this sea is (Rizzoli), novel about the loss of time and history, e Giorgio Van Stten with The rebel. Extraordinary life of Nadia Parri (Laterza), who with biographical touch rewrites the story of a woman outside the box.
Source: Vanity Fair

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