Those who knew the narrator in the first of the two novels that make up the “Fifty-fifty” diptych will find him here immersed in one of the most luminous moments of his past: during his naïveté, when the desire for a body always seemed to be able to find a way to express itself. No longer Fifí’s denials, but the affection and enthusiastic homoerotic novitiate of the rediscovered Sciofí are in fact the pivot around which the memory is to be refounded. Ezio Sinigaglia thus brings to fruition his most ambitious work, in which the creativity of language reinvents the twentieth-century literary tradition in a key that is both humorous and rigorous. A treatise in narrative form on the wonder and freedom of love, the pitfalls of jealousy and the foolishness of men when they play at war. (Feltrinelli)