The House on Via Gemito - Domenico Starnone Balzac’s multivolume magnum opus

Balzac’s multivolume magnum opus

their testimonies are woven together into one of the most dazzling Latin American novels of all time

and it will take a genius to understand the genius behind this particular crime

Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila

The House on Via Gemito - Domenico Starnone Balzac’s multivolume magnum opusThe modest apartment on Via Gemito smells of paint and white spirit. The furniture is pushed up against the wall to create a make shift studio, and drying canvases must be moved off the beds each night. Feder, a railway clerk, is convinced that, if he didnt have a family to feed, hed be a world famous painter. Talented, ambitious, and frustrated, his life is marked by bitter disappointment. His long suffering wife and their four sons bear the brunt.