Who's Who When Every One is Someone Else by C.D. Rose

If you love books, world of books, if every book is important for you, if you are a desperate books addicted, if you fight everyday with yourselves against the terrible temptation and compulsion of buying new or used books, this book, Who's Who When Every One is Someone Else by C.D. Rose will be a wonderful, fantastic reading.
Why?
It tells everything you want to know about the world of books seeing  as spiritual and material guide, as a way of life, and seen as best companions that, once entered in our life will always be in grade to capture and rapture our attention.
I was impressed by the beautiful, researched writing-style of Rose, in grade to enchant the reader with a stunning prose, in an elaborated succulent novel where digressions, mysteries, passions, stunning lectures, researched descriptions, weird characters, re-discovery of old books covered by the heavy mantel of dust of time and forgetfulness will play the most important part.

The story starts when a teacher is invited to a certain university in a certain undefined European city for ten lectures regarding forgetting books or "Great Lost Books."

A book, for a reason or another, loses its appeal without becoming at all a best-seller sometimes.

Why a book is forgotten, lost?

Maybe it was born with an originality still not understood; maybe it wasn't the best moment for emerging because the thematic surpassed or too modern, maybe the story too complicated and the reader couldn't follow it clearly; in a case an author described a kiss using fifteen pages. A real intellectual virtuosity and tour de force.

The teacher accepts enthusiastically. They pay great money, he will discover a new city: why not?

The arrival sounds weird, because the teacher was waiting for the Professor, the man who invited him, but this man didn't appear replaced by a taxi driver not too calm while he drives along the city. There will be other surprises along the way as well.
While the Professor remains a mystery, the Profesora and other weird characters, will surround during the weeks in the city this teacher.

This story is about reality, appearance, perceptions, surreality, research of graves of maybe never born intellectuals, interior dialogues, marvelous explanations of lost books that at the end will result very alive in a trip, lived intensely, intellectually and physically.

I can tell you this: you'll love this book and you will become an addicted of C.D.Rose's books.

Highly recommended.

I thank Melville for the physical copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori