Giulio Natali's 'Questioni di testa': Twenty-One Stories of Unjudgeable Existence

Giulio Natali's book 'Questioni di testa' (Edizioni La Gru, 2020) is a collection of twenty-one 'broken' stories about equally 'broken' lives. The narratives eschew literary conventions, focusing on open endings that correspond to breaking points in the protagonists' existences. The endings are more essential than the events themselves, remaining brutally real—neither happy nor redemptive. The stories vary in length, emphasizing that a story can be contained in a single moment. Natali presents humanity with its excesses and weaknesses, staging scenes that feel like theater (one story is set in a 'Bar del Teatro'). The style, despite lacking graphic signs, approaches a vaguely futurist aesthetic—without schemes or measures. The author's key line: 'Everything around you tells about you. I look at you. And I orient you too'—without judgment. The article was written by Antonia De Francesco for MIfacciodiCultura and published on Artspecialday.