Year End Church Contribution Letter

Alberto Ongaro

The Venetian Alberto Ongaro leads into his novels a thinking very

on personal writing, able to revive a great popular literature (which draws from the source founder of Stevenson, Conrad and Dumas, but also with Nabokov or in American cinema of the 50s).
La Taverne du Doge Loredan presented the throes of a publisher after reading a manuscript on top of a forgotten closet. In The Secret Caspar Jacobi is the turn of the writer to get lost in his own fiction.
In the last translation, published in February 2009, vortex of the game takes us with Francesco Sacredo in Venice lagoon jelly for Partita endless. The characters thus created are not unrelated to those he had imagined, in collaboration with
Pratt, in his comic scenarios.
Alberto Ongaro has published many novels in Italy ( Rumba , IlSegreto dei Ségonzac , Il Ponte della Solita ora not yet translated into French), all acclaimed by the public as the critical work is that s'agitd'une cousin of Borges or Buzzatti those whose power is beginning to excite the romantic French readers. So, Cultures France and the House of writers and literature have invited Alberto Ongaro in France among twenty-seven European writers in the context of the European Cultural Season (July 1 to December 31, 2008).

Source: editions Anacharsis