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Ishmael, a young lumberman, is thrilled at discovering that the timber he handles every day is the very material from which paper is made. This gives him a new consciousness of himself and of the world in which he leaves, because handling wood he handles paper, and since paper is the instrument to diffuse written words, he is one of the rings of the chain of progress through the diffusion of ideas. Yearning to learn more, Ishmael leaves his native mountains looking for other valleys in search of one special valley, which is Everywhere. Like Everyman, the leading character in ancient "moralities", he sets forth a pilgrimage along the worldly miseries and the glory of nature to reach the one place that can be anywhere for any man and that he will recognize or choose as his own "Everywhere"
ca. 43,000 words
original text in Italian (CDA&Vivalda)
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Davide Sapienza, translator and writer, contributes to several magazines in Italy and abroad. He is an expert of the culture and traditions of native Americans, and as a passionate traveller has a penchant for the Arctic lands and the American Great North. In 2006 he travelled in the Yukon and Klondike on the path of Jack London, of whom he collected rare and unpublished writings and translated several short stories and some of the most important novels. He lives in an Alpine village with his wife - the rock star Cristina Donà - and their baby son.