The Unsecured Present - Di Nicola, Vincenzo
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Two novellas written during the "3-Day Novel Contest" "The World's Most Notorious Literary Marathon" After Fernando is a fictional dream about the life of Ophélia Queiroz after the death of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. When a young stranger appears at her house in Lisbon, Ophélia takes him on a journey of the "perfect day" she has been assembling in her memory room with the poems and letters of the four poetic heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa. Crowd Theory is a twitter novella whose avatars post 140-character microblogs. Pitting individualist I_Scrivener against social psychiatrist Dr.…mehr

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Two novellas written during the "3-Day Novel Contest" "The World's Most Notorious Literary Marathon" After Fernando is a fictional dream about the life of Ophélia Queiroz after the death of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. When a young stranger appears at her house in Lisbon, Ophélia takes him on a journey of the "perfect day" she has been assembling in her memory room with the poems and letters of the four poetic heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa. Crowd Theory is a twitter novella whose avatars post 140-character microblogs. Pitting individualist I_Scrivener against social psychiatrist Dr. Krishna Dhere, author of Crowd Theory, the Bible of The Collective, a dangerous intellectual game begins. The two stage a debate for very high stakes - suicide: the surrender of Scrivener's identity to merge with The Collective. Between them, these novellas chart the territory between saudade - the portentous Portuguese longing for the past, and Futurism - the fervent Italian artistic movement that celebrated speed, a break with the past, and presaged Fascism.
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Vincenzo Di Nicola is an interdisciplinary scholar who was born in Abruzzo, Italy and lives in Montreal, Canada where he practices as a psychiatric physician, philosopher, and poet and teaches at the University of Montreal. In the sphere of the arts, Di Nicola has been invited to numerous arts and cultural festivals and artistic residencies, spanning from Symposium '73 at York University in Toronto, Canada (1973) to the Cascais International Summer Course in Cascais, Portugal (2014) and recently, the Alfred Summer Arts Festival at Alfred University in Alfred, NY, USA (2022). Di Nicola's literary work has appeared in journals such as Queen's Quarterly and Poiesis and in his volume, The Unsecured Present: 3-Day Novels & Pomes 4 Pilgrims (2013). His professional texts include A Stranger in the Family (1997), Letters to a Young Therapist (2011, awarded the Prix Camille-Laurin), and Psychiatry in Crisis (with Drozdstoj Stoyanov, 2021).