These three short pieces, steeped in mythology and Mediterranean, composed an excellent concentrate of art Erri de Luca. "Story of Irene", the longest of the three, takes Neapolitan legend dolphin and man told by Pliny in the feminizing it broadens the scope to make a beautiful fable about pantheistic communication, life and nature, written in short sentences close of the verse, the text is a true prose poem and a declaration of love for Greece. "Heaven in a manger" is the story of the night navigation of the author's father, who fled to Capri in the company of a Jew forever mark his memory, and qu'Erri De Luca transcribed in a clear style stripped. "A very stupid thing" is the admirable account of the death of an old Neapolitan "fatigue is perfect, it is satisfied now and it breathes peut.Il few liters of hot air, retains, and plays the mouth and escapes from there with a kid caper that plunges into the sea, life waiting an hour of happiness to bow out ".This dozen pages is one of the masterpieces of the great writer Italian. These texts are full of the love of life and illustrate the art of the author, who shared his personal experiences (meetings, readings, travel, exercise ...) to achieve the myth Universal and rejuvenating cultural crucibles Greco-Roman and Hebrew.
