I baci sono definitivi

Every day, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco-with his commuter backpack-enters the subway, finds himself between the pages of a spell and chronicles it. Every day he faces the underground journey and makes a note of it for his own notebook. Extraordinary encounters in the ordinary rising of dawn. Lovers' tales, poignant spells, songs, dedications and epics experienced among the seats, handrails and escalators of the lines hidden underground. Webs that then unravel in the seductive tangle of railroad transits, automobile journeys and walks along roads of a world pleasantly revealed to the eyes of the imagination. An exercise in observation intended for the notebook. A staging canvas, tearing reality from the everyday to reveal, in the enjoyment of a single moment reflected on the windows of a carriage, the truth of poetry.

Pietrangelo Buttafuoco

Pietrangelo Buttafuoco was born in Catania in 1963 and lives in Rome. He is a journalist and writer.
He has published Le uova del drago (Mondadori, 2005, finalist for the 2006 Campiello Prize, reissued by La Nave di Teseo, 2016), L’ultima del diavolo (Mondadori, 2008), Il Lupo e la Luna (Bompiani, 2011), Il dolore pazzo dell’amore (Bompiani, 2013), I cinque funerali della signora Goring (Mondadori, 2014), La notte tu mi fai impazzire (Skira, 2016), I baci sono definitivi (La Nave di Teseo, 2017), Sotto il suo passo nascono i fiori (with Francesca Bocca-Aldaqre, La nave di Teseo, 2019), Salvini and/or Mussolini (ParerFIRST, 2020).
Among the essays, he published Fogli consanguinei (Edizioni Ar, 2003), Cabaret Voltaire (Bompiani, 2008), Buttanissima Sicilia (Bompiani, 2014), Il Feroce Saracino (Bompiani, 2015), Strabuttanissima Sicilia (La Nave di Teseo, 2017); together with Carmelo Abbate Armatevi e Morite (Sperling & Kupfer, 2017).
In 2016, for the seventieth anniversary of the Longanesi publishing house, he edited Il mio Leo Longanesi, an anthology of aphorisms, epigrams and short stories.
In 2018, he wrote the preface to La repubblica dei vinti. Stories of Italians in Salò by Sergio Tau (Marsilio, 2018).

He is the author of plays including: Strabuttanissima Sicilia with Salvo Piparo and Il Dolore Pazzo dell’Amore with Mario Incudine.
He writes for Il Quotidiano del Sud.
His latest novel is titled Sono cose che passano and was published in 2021 (La nave di Teseo).
In 2023 he published with Longanesi Beato lui. Panegirico dell’arcitaliano Silvio Berlusconi.

On October 26, 2023, he was appointed president of the Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia.