Where the lagoon of Venice is lost between mud flats and sandbanks, the Last Islands appear, inhabited by an amphibious humanity, which wants to resist the homologation of urban development, but ends up being unable to escape history. It is here that Paolo Barbaro, a young engineer, is confronted with a precariousness that pervades matter and human relationships. In a kaleidoscope of departures and returns that unfold over three stories, Barbaro delves into the bowels of post-war Venice, crowded and chaotic, narrating a world on the verge of disappearing in a unique style. With this text, winner of the Comisso Prize in 1992, we thus repropose an author of great literary sensitivity, a profound connoisseur of Venice, unjustly forgotten by the publishing world. Interventions by Giovanni Montanaro and Tiziano Scarpa, author of the preface that accompanies the text.
