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Daniele Del Giudice (1949-2021) was a contemplative author born in Rome but who lived most of his life in Venice, where he taught theatrical literature at Venice University. He wrote many novels and essays and received numerous awards. Del Giudice's interest in science, aviation, and all forms of navigation found expression in much of his writing. Anne Milano Appel has translated works by many leading Italian authors, including Claudio Magris, Roberto Saviano, and Primo Levi. Her awards include the Italian Prose in Translation Award and the John Florio Prize for Italian Translation.
""The vague state between writing and not writing, between the books written and the parallel world where they're not, this is what consumes the narrator of A Fictional Inquiry, a metaphysical detective story and a modern Italian classic. A strange and ambiguous novel and a brilliant meditation on the mysteries that inform literature.""--Mark Haber, author of Saint Sebastian's Abyss and Reinhardt's Garden ""A literary noir about literature. Masterful, mirror-like, iridescent.""--Lila Azam Zanganeh, author of The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness ""A literary pilgrimage of sorts, an unusual one where the writer's oeuvre exists in the places and people he shaped and that shaped him and not in any written works . . . intriguing . . . richly detailed . . . Constant movement places A Fictional Inquiry in a line of texts narrated by a walker, from modernists like Robert Walser and Fernando Pessoa to more contemporary writers like Sebald.""--Full Stop ""Daniele Del Giudice builds his incisive tale by subtraction and by draining away what is not strictly essential. His writing penetrates the skein of reality and the psyche by extracting its inexorable trajectory of fate.""--Claudio Magris, author of Danube ""Literature that does what it's supposed to do, explode and be silent at the same time.""--Gianna Montieri, poet and journalist
