IL RITORNO | I EDIZ. 2002 | EDOARDO ALBINATI

Edoardo Albinati’s Il ritorno (2002) is a short but intense work of contemporary Italian fiction that explores the fragility of personal identity and the unsettling experience of returning to a familiar place after a long absence. Through a spare and reflective prose, Albinati examines how memory, estrangement, and the passage of time reshape one’s perception of self and others. The narrative is marked by psychological depth, focusing on the act of “coming back” as both a physical journey and an existential confrontation. It blends introspection, alienation, and temporal dislocation, offering a compact meditation on what it means to revisit one’s past while being changed by distance and experience.