The Ambiguities of Memory
Or The Decalogue

About the Book

Here are ten stories exploring the Ambiguities of Memory, each based on fascinating historical personalities and events: John Milton; the people of Vézelay; Bernard of Clairvaux and the Old Man of the Mountain; the illiterate Ester Pesac; the angelologist René Sauvier; the mysterious deaths among the Priors of Levesh; Frisius Gaestrum and Johamnis Mundi; Robert Roux, an illusionist painter; Alessandro da Torriano; and Jean Gojoma’s famous theft. A scarlet thread running through each of these tales is the central role of the ambiguities of memory in creating the myriad ways that reality can at any moment become fantasy, and fantasy reality. The result is an endless play of mirrors, mixing reality and fantasy in a dense, ambiguous narrative.

About the Author

Giuseppe Cafiero lives in the Tuscan countryside, between Siena and Arezzo. His stage plays include "Flourish as the Green Bay Tree," "Trial by Conscience," and "Going Back." He has also written radio plays for Italian, Swedish, Slovenian, and Italo-Swiss radio, and for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Mr. Cafiero’s short stories have appeared in the Dalhousie Review (Dalhousie University), Immediati Dintorni, Letters (University of Cardiff), and Rendiconti.