You, Bleeding Childhood - Paperback

by Michele Mari (Author), Brian Robert Moore (Translator)

Long
before the latest vogue for autofiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's most
beloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, and found
it crawling with monsters.

Raised
on comic books and science fiction, the young Mari constructed an alternate
universe for himself untouched by uncomprehending grownups or sadistic peers.
Compared to the horrors of real life, Long John Silver and Cthulhu made for
positively cuddly company; but little boys raised by beasts may well grow up
beastly--or never grow up at all. Waking or sleeping, the obsessions of Mari's
youth seem to color his every adult thought. You, Bleeding Childhood stands
as his first attempt to catalog this cabinet of wonders.

Cult
classics since their first publication, these loosely connected stories stand
as the ideal introduction to an encyclopedic fantasist on a par with Kafka,
Poe, and Borges.

Author Biography

Brian Robert Moore is a literary translator whose published and forthcoming translations from the Italian include novels by Goliarda Sapienza and Lalla Romano. He received the 2021 PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature and a 2022 Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His translation of the novel Verdigris by Michele Mari is forthcoming from And Other Stories.