Infinite Moons, Infinite Suns

About the Book

In this precious poetic autobiography, Gabriella Bianco not only tells the final hour of an existence—that of her son Robert Steve— but also the loss of a great love, in a world full of absences. Gabriella Bianco challenges her destiny, inviting us to the caducity of all that surrounds us—feelings, love, life and even the most precious gift, a son. In the loving relation not only with language and poetry, but also with the drama of life, Bianco needs to reveal a secret—her son’s death—and share it with her son’s father, as a moral and absolute duty. From the point of view of the truth and the death of a child, this text is sacred, although, refusing to take the place of the victim under the circumstances, Bianco knows—like all tragic heroes— that nothing different would have been possible with her destiny. This valuable literary narration reaches a deeply dramatic effect, as it is so painfully connected to a vital experience. The story always speaks about love, charging this word with immense emotion, whispering words in their agonizing beauty. Bianco tells us what she knows about herself and about the facts, digging in her own soul, with perplexity and nostalgia. In this story, the past is a split mirror, where nothing turned out to be the same. Here the theme of love has the marks of time and renunciation, the mark of destiny. In this narration, Bianco reaches a balance of great beauty, between said and unspoken words, between suggested and explicit thoughts, in a great richness of nuances, when the text turns unstable, facing the emotions stirred up by this testimony.

About the Author

Gabriella Bianco graduated from the University of Trieste in 1972 specializing in Languages and Comparative Literatures and in 1974 in Philosophy, Education and Psychology from the University of Urbino (Italy), with a thesis on creativity. She completed her post-graduate work in Philosophy, History and Education at the University of Toronto, with a thesis on Antonio Gramsci and after being awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, she did her doctorate in the United States in Political Philosophy. She also holds a doctoral degree in Italian Studies from the University of Urbino (1983). In her University career, she has taught at several Universities, such as Urbino (Italy), Windsor (Canada), New Paltz (USA), Tasmania (Australia) and Nairobi (Kenya). Since 1980 she has worked in the cultural sector of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as cultural attachee in different countries (Australia, Argentina, Canada). She has been Director of Development and International Relations at the University E.Morin (Argentina-Mexico) and is now lecturing in Ethics, Political Philosophy and Human Rights at the MA in Human Rights at the Univ. of MdP (Argentina). Her wide ranging books and essays on literature, culture, politics and education include: Educazione e politica (Milan, 1975), Utopia e realta': alla ricerca della verginita' perduta (Rome, 1984), El extranamiento del ser (Buenos Aires, 1990), Cesare Pavese y Franz Kafka: sendas de exilio (Buenos Aires, 1991), La hermeneutica del devenir (Buenos Aires, 1993), El campo de la etica (Buenos Aires, 1997), Epistemologia del dialogo. Pensamiento del exodo (Buenos Aires, 2002), Wolfgang & Magdalena (Roma, 2002), La amante de Mozart, Buenos Aires, 2006) and The Impatience of the Absolute, presented at the International Book Fair in April 2007 (Buenos Aires, 2007), which includes the screenplay SAVE VENICE. »her most recent books are: Implacable Absences (2009) and Infinite Moons, Infinite Suns (2010). She is also teaching Screenwriting at the Film School in MdP (Argentina), after attending the VfS in Vancouver (2000). She has written stage plays and works for musical theatre and operas, staged in several parts of the world, which have been published under the title El camino de la palabra (Buenos Aires, 1995). She has also written for cinema two screenplays, which have been awarded several prizes in Hollywood , such as Mozart & Magdalena (Hollywood, 2004) and Save Venice ( Hollywwod,2004, International Mexico Film Festival 2009) She is Academic of Italy and Honorary Member of the European Union of Writers and Artists. She has been an international development consultant in education, electoral and and human rights expert since 1998 and carries out an intense international career both in the social and in the philosophical and artistic fields. She has been appointed International Peace Ambassador in 2009 and she had done two missions, in Guatemala (2009) and Chile (2010).