La Grande Famiglia. Thomas Ott.
In French, 46 pages, carton cover. 22.5 x 1 x 16.7 cm. L'Association Éditions. Price EUR 24,90
This book is the bookish version of a narrative installation that the Swiss author presented for the first time in 1997 in Lucarno. Through what seem like postcards, with short informative texts and portraits (taken on a stenopeic camera, we are precise), we follow the life and family context of a mobster, Marcello Lupara and, by reading this album of memories, we unveil, perhaps, something darker and more insidious...