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Excerpt from the book review critical of Matthew M. Old

C redo one can speak of the work of Max Bridge, starting already from the cover as a book of protest. The cover, then: provocative, deliberately disturbing; cover which, in its arrangement graphic, almost designed to confuse the reader inattentive and attract him, however, the reader beyond the immediacy of the reception. From here, the number of protesters ironically work. Protest, mind you, free and hardness of militant dogmatists; protest Palazzeschi, rigorous in its (software?) Figure and confusing story-telling, never derogating from the sweetness of pastiche of controlled chaos , Treat the primordial nature of the word which he opposes any attempt to harness human misery, to force her. The word 'fly high', 'join' the 'zenith' of 'its meaning' if it returned to its virginity expressive, if shared with the tenacity of a "thinking heart." The game, yes, but it is true that nothing is more serious, and seriously structured for a game, the protest, soaking in this playful figure, expresses his voracious love of life and everything that composes it: hence the Suddenly, never boring, popular, the look on the minutes of the life lived on the misery of human context.

Matthew M. Old

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