Real character , singular figure of " subversive " by the human characteristics and ideological characteristics, Eugenio Del Sarto ( in historical reality , Eugenio Del Magro ): born in 1887 and raised in Viareggio in Versilia in the early decades of the twentieth century , brings to his work an employee of the Royal Railways his political faith of fervent supporter of the ideas of social justice and equality , embodied in the program of the newborn Italian Communist Party of Gramsci and Bordiga , whose section Viareggio becomes the founder , to the point of jeopardizing with his political activism , along with his job , the safety and security of the same family in the name of his political beliefs , finding himself a fugitive and politically persecuted by fascism at first and then also from the same communism , which is under the illusion of being able to contribute to changing its atrocious deviations .
Invented although historically reliable in its characteristics , however , the other , the Transcaucasian Leviskilyj , originating Kirovabad , the Caspian Sea , which moves on a scenario geographically accurate than ever and within historical coordinates that are those that affect the Russia in the early decades of the '900. After a difficult childhood in the years of dramatic sunset of Czarist absolutism , the young and restless Fyodor finds himself caught up in the name of ideals that turns strangers to his convictions , in events older than him ( the Bolshevik Revolution , the Civil War with its burden of deaths and horrors , the expropriation of land ) , until it begins to gradually become aware with growing dismay.
They share it , as you can see , their being " against " their battle in the name of moral freedom , even before politics, and their allegiance to a human idea of power. This is why Fyodor , guilty of desertion by the Red Army , finds himself in a gulag , to Severo Vostocnyj , the Caspian Sea , right where we also find Eugenio Del Sarto, who arrived in the USSR as a journalist , you are dreaming to help to better the system .
Two stories , then, two destinies that intertwine and literally proceed in parallel, in this novel - which is an authentic document , and that tells Belluomini floor with style and linear chronicle , almost holding and controlling emotion, to bring out the paradigmatic value of certain utopias that were involved ( and deluded ) causing them to so many choices dramatically proved unsuccessful , the distance between utopia and reality.And a story really happened , at least in part, as told by Francis Belluomini in its most recent novel , On the crest of utopia. A story that involves , in parallel, two characters, a Viareggio , Eugenio Del Sarto, and a character belonging to a geographically far away, a Transcaucasian , Fiodor Leviskilyj , both placed on a scenario historically and ideologically common and rich in enzymes and contradictions , that of war and the advent of fascism with its dictatorial degeneration , in the first case , that of Russia and the Soviet Revolution and the years of the progressive "betrayal" of the starting values in the second.
Vincenzo Guarracino