Una altra vida, encara

'No one should write after the age of seventy-five,' a friend had said. At the age of seventy-seven, blocked as a writer, Theodor Kallifatides makes the difficult decision to sell the Stockholm studio, where he worked diligently for decades, and retire. Unable to write and at the same time unable to stop, he travels to his native Greece in the hope of rediscovering the lost fluency of language. In this beautiful text, Kallifatides explores the relationship between a meaningful life and a meaningful work, and how to reconcile with aging. But it also deals with worrying trends in contemporary Europe, from religious intolerance and prejudice against immigrants to the housing crisis and its sadness over the mistreated state of its beloved Greece. Kallifatides offers a deep, sensitive and captivating meditation on the writing and place of each of us in a changing world.