La parola da casa, Serena Piccoli

i just read victor pelevin's novel the yellow arrow. odd work—it's about a man riding on a train who comes to discover that life exists outside the train. the train he is on is the yellow arrow, a train headed for a ruined bridge. the people on the train think human life takes place only on the train. when people die, the conductors dump their bodies out of the windows.

in a social context, this book seems to suggest the train as contemporary russia—we are even shown the capitalist oligarchs who have arisen since communism's decline. on a more personal level, the work concerns exploring the foundations that prop up modern life, as if to suggest, without pointing to exactly what, an alternative to the show business capitalist vision of life pushed in the global marketplace exists.