by Philippe Delerm · Frassinelli · tapa dura · ISBN 9788876846175
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«Il portico» is the novel by Philippe Delerm, published in 2000 by Frassinelli in hardcover (160 pages, in Italian).
Sebastian Senecal, a forty-five-year-old professor of literature and philosophy, enjoys life's small pleasures with his family. As summer approaches, he decides to undertake an unusual project: building a portico in his garden to walk and reflect on philosophy, the Stoics and the Epicureans, joys and sorrows.
Work originally published in French as «Le portique» in 1999; Italian translation by Alessandra Emma Giagheddu. Collection «Frassinelli narrativa straniera».
For readers of Philippe Delerm, author of «La prima sorsata di birra», who value short, melancholic stories about everyday life.
Philippe Delerm is a French writer whose collection of essays La Première gorgée de bière et autres plaisirs minuscules sold more than one million copies in France.
