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feminist and writer, Robert Tatafiore is locked in the house three months before killing THE CHARACTER
A woman always against
Diary of a farewell
feminist and writer, Robert Tatafiore is locked in the house three months before killing
ROME - "I do not think that suicide is a death like any other. Nevertheless I think that should be included among the ways to die that man may choose even in the narrow limits of a very painful condition. " So Roberta Tatafiore described his decision to kill himself. It was February 26th last year. It was killed on April 8 to 66 years, with a mixture of drugs and alcohol in a hotel room all'Esquilino twentieth century, after a lifetime of study and struggle for the rights of women and three months in autoreclusione his apartment, to prepare for the extreme choice, put 'on the run from the bonds, "separate from the living. Roberta Tatafiore, who committed suicide at 66, was an essayist and feminist, sociologist, scholar of sexuality and pornography Ăˆmorta after six days in a coma, on the morning in which five of his friends received the letter with the text of his diary of these months of suffering and research.
It is titled "The word order. Diary of a suicide" (Rizzoli), the book collects the pages written by Robert Tatafiore in the three months before taking his own life What next Wednesday
Waiver of "relationships", Roberta Tatafiore, friends -in first anniversary of his death - will be in bookstores: "The word order, diary of a suicide" (Rizzoli, 160 pages, 17.00 €). It is not just a chronicle of despair, it is also a meditation on death, a reflection on life and a study with a singular subject: herself and her grief. A will. Sincerely Tatafiore investigates his subject ("there is resentment and anger in suicide," he writes on 11 January), which actually has accompanied her throughout life, the dramatic death of his father killed by a worker lost his mind . A life in the preface that his friend Daniele Scalise calls "rich, confused, bewildered and sad, brave to recklessness, "certainly unconventional, as his studies that led from feminism, to investigate the world of paid sex and then in recent years to rethink the legacy of feminist battles and choose the confrontation with the secular right , in collaboration with the Century of Italy to work at the association for the care of cancer patients of Francesco De Lorenzo. In these three months in which he constructs his own death, for all of them, as well as for friends, prepares a series of lies, a parallel life that allows her to isolate herself in her home near Piazza Vittorio, to withdraw into the gray area in that 'it hurts to live but to die, " lost in the readings of Marguerite Yourcenar, Sylvia Plath. It allows her to study and investigate the stories of female suicide, even on the question later ("I do not exclude a priori the existence of a place / not place before the life, accompanies and beyond), launched in late , looking back at the loves and sorrows of life.
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