by Mario Soldati · Rizzoli · tapa dura · ISBN 9788817667012
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«L'architetto» is the novel by Mario Soldati, published by Rizzoli in hardcover (165 pages, in Italian).
Vittorio Franzi, a Milanese architect, is commissioned to design a university in Chicago. During a long phone call to his wife, he recalls his life, from an old crossing of Africa, amid misunderstandings, desires and betrayals. The novel plays with appearances and portrays conjugal intimacy and the search for sincerity.
«L'architetto» was published in 1985; this edition is the first, in Rizzoli's «La Scala» collection.
For readers of contemporary Italian fiction interested in psychological portraits of married life.
Mario Soldati was an Italian writer and film director. In 1954, he won the Strega Prize for Lettere da Capri. He directed several works adapted from novels, and worked with leading Italian actresses, such as Alida Valli, Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida.
