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    Fear
    Fear
    Fear
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    Fear

    By Susanna Berti Franceschi

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    The fear of the third millennium is more invasive and destructive: it is no longer God who punishes and destroys, but man, through the misuse of science, who will bring about the final catastrophe.
    Such a fear is characterised by depression and a sense of inevitability, in which man is the conscious, but equally helpless spectator of his own destruction. These short stories speak precisely of this: the terrifying hypotheses which one famous film defined as “The Day After Tomorrow”, the next day, or centuries or millennia later.
    But, as the title implies, they also speak of more than just the human condition, something which has and will always remain unchanged throughout man’s collective journey: they tell of love, of memory, of nostalgia, of marginalisation and the sense of being different.

    Stories of Love, Memory and Loss
    Thoughts: Chochise and H. P. Lovecraft
    Spiders
    A Warm Sun
    The Wait
    Fever
    Motherhood
    Wail
    Play with Me
    The Menhir

    Cover Image by Wayne G D Ingram

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMnamon
    Release dateMar 23, 2021
    ISBN9788898061341
    Fear
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    Susanna Berti Franceschi

    Susanna Berti Franceschi is Vice-President of the Angiolo and Maria Teresa Berti National Historical Society. As part of her role, she is also the Director of the scientific committee for historical research and is in charge of organising conferences on behalf of the Society.Her main area of interest is Gender History and the role of women in culture and power, with a particular focus on the Middle Ages.

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