The debut of Brazilian poet Érico Nogueira, O livro de Scardanelli [The book of Scardanelli], rekindles the old question of the relationship between poetry and madness by composing an forceful fictional game with the pseudonym adopted by Hölderlin, who becomes the interlocutor in a touching and aesthetically sophisticated dialogue about the human condition.
Poetry; Madness; Truth; Falsehood; Decadence