Eternity. L'impresa un po' presuntuosa della resurrezione

Being a gossip columnist and dying for murder is a phenomenal scoop that unfortunately cannot be exploited. But even more sensational is the news of being able to rise again, a front-page fact, if Rome were not increasingly indifferent.

Alceste Santacroce no longer seems the same as before, he doesn't speak, he doesn't understand, he doesn't walk. It's hard to imagine what's going through his head, but it's predictable that he can't escape the temptation of resurrection, to prove himself on par with much more famous predecessors. In a city of holy men who sell miracles, of divine apparitions on the slopes of Monte Mario and of old porn stars in the air of beatification, a somewhat presumptuous man invents his own personal Via Crucis.

Working hard to come back to life can be a challenge, but also a necessity when the most common of human misfortunes happens. Alceste, perhaps you thought you would live forever, but you simply realized that you could never die.