One of the most articulate and influential writers of his generation, Sebastiano Vassalli endured twenty years in literary limbo before achieving widespread critical success in 1990 with La chimera (translated as The Chimera, 1993). No stranger to...

Sebastiano Vassalli, a painter, poet, photographer, essayist, and translator, was born in Genoa on 25 October 1941. His father, Luciano, is Milanese, and his mother, Falaschi Alfreda, is Tuscan. Vassalli considers himself Tuscan, although he has spent...