Die Pause ist vorbei!

In the organizer's words:

Marcello, a thirty-something ex-student without a proper job, lives in the tourist town of Viareggio - with his mother, of course. He fears that his girlfriend might be serious about him, and just as much that she might leave him. But his biggest worry is that he doesn't want to take over his father's bar. More out of spite than anything else, Marcello applies for a doctoral position at the University of Pisa - and to everyone's surprise, including his own, he gets it. Marcello soon gets caught up in the intrigues of a legendary literature professor who gives him a topic for his doctoral thesis: the literary work of the left-wing terrorist Tito Sella. But why is his professor so interested in the little-known Sella, who died in prison? And what does his supposedly lost autobiography reveal? In a highly comic and engaging way, Dario Ferrari tells the story of Marcello, who successfully resists growing up - and for whom the boundaries are becoming increasingly blurred: between literature and life, between the writing terrorist and himself.

In conversation with Anna Vollmer , bestselling Italian author Dario Ferrari tells the story of a precarious generation that confronts the rather hopeless present with all kinds of tricks and a lot of humor.

Dario Ferrari, born in Viareggio in Tuscany in 1982, has a doctorate in philosophy - a title that he says is only good for embellishing short biographies like this one. He is a teacher at a grammar school in Rome and translates from English. "The break is over" has been read by over 100,000 readers in Italy, won various literary prizes and is published in several languages.