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SCARS OF TENNIS

The work is a collection of six short compositions having tennis as their topic. The narrative solutions, or better, the occasions, proposed are of all kinds, including memories of adolescence, particular situations of play (See “LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MISTER CASTELLI TO SERVE”), episodes of “tennis-life” (See “TRASH ART, THREE BROKEN RACKETS” or “4 DOUBLE FAULTS IN ROW”), and also “descriptions” of its Main Characters, some very famous (ROGER FEDERER) but also some completely unknown, among whom the Author himself that, despite of “simply cultivating the matter” (sic!), “evidently” had the opportunity, practising this sport, to “cicatrize” (See, above all, “PARAMETAMORPHOSIS”). Actually, tennis (that in its many perverse aspects could be defined “the GAME of DEVIL”) has in itself, for the Author, its own “poetic” and it has been endowed with “rhythm” to offer it charme and make it, of course, “different” from more known and popular sport disciplines. Tennis allows each interpreter to meet and know shades of soul apparently inscrutable; tennis has attitudes allowing you to discover unknown aspects of your own intense-ego. Surely, the approach to this sport can be facilitated by the opportunity to OBSERVE an ABSOLUTE INTERPRETER like ROGER FEDERER (!) who represents, ex se, a vehicular phenomenal-situation, heralding ideas, passages, intuitions and, even, suggestions the Author wanted to “crystallize” with two dedications/odes [see “ABOUT FEDERER LIVE” (AN IMMORTAL DAY) and MASTERPIECEFEDERER] inserted as integrant part of the work itself. It is also possible that author’s life and story about the play of tennis are nothing but a “singular” occasion to go BEYOND...As to say that what is in the work here proposed has little to do with tennis. Or, sic et simpliciter that, for the Author, tennis is a pretext (without any doubt lively) which charge the desire to space, letting mind fly.

Maurizio Castelli

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The work is composed of 6 short compositions, spread over 26 typewritten pages, index included, (8.987 typewritten words realized with Word using heterogeneous types and sometimes in different colours), contains an image taken from the book entitled “I DREAMT WIMBLEDON SO MUCH I EVEN WON IT (!)”, written by the same Author. The cover (frontal and final pages) is painted by the Author and represents a stylized court with black stripes on a dark red background with black shades.