Hto the fifty years, two children and Your husband left you for a younger woman. It seems the beginning of a story already heard too many times. But Sara, the protagonist of Nothing serious, but let’s seehas no intention of falling back in victimism and depression. He decides to collect his “youth credit” set aside: “So, cross -legged legs on the sofa, a mobile phone in the hands, at fifty years I begin to believe you have twenty,” he says.
The lifeguard to whom he clings with the spirit and curiosity of a girl is called Tinder, The dating app in which the algorithm, taking into account the user’s preferences, tries to present the most suitable partners.
And so Sara begins her new lifewhere an evening of sex can become the starting point, perhaps, to get to know each other and create a relationship. The first candidate is Jacopo, a very new age architect-artist, with whom physical alchemy is perfect. And then they follow Rino from the body covered with tattoos, the surgeon Vincenzo, Federico who looks like the ideal man in Sara, David, Lorenzo, Giovanni …
Claudia Valeriani was born in Milan. Graduated in Philosophy, a journalist for several newspapers, it is also counselor. This is his first novel.
The story of the present is intertwined with fragments of memories of the life of the protagonistwho is also a narrative voice: the strong bond with her friend Silvia, the relationship with her parents, ex -husband Ruggero help us to enter the complexity of the character. Which is not that of a milf to hunt for sex and fun, but of a woman who is asking for more to life. In the carousel of male characters who appear and disappear, the only one to return to the scene several times is Jacopo. Will Sara be found to find a new opportunity with him?
Nothing serious, let’s see by Claudia Valeriani is fun and you read one breath. The Author, a Milanese journalist, is here at her first narrative test, born in parallel to a study path that led her to become counselor, a role that stimulates empathy and emotional study, ability she has been able to instill in the construction of the protagonist.
Who is Sara?
Sara is all the women of today who, once left alone, can make use of an app, without having to wait for a friend to combine the meeting with someone. But she is also a woman from the past, of the internet times in which people were looking for live. It represents those that are in a situation of solitude and that must put the pieces of themselves back together. He has two teen twin children and discovers from a messenger to have been left after twenty years of marriage. He has a sharp, sarcastic, self -tidy but funny point of view, which is his strength.
Nothing serious, but let’s see Claudia Valeriani, Einaudi184 pages, € 17.50
What exactly looks for, love or sex?
She herself does not know. He tries to stay standing in a difficult moment by doing something different from how much a woman of her age would do. On Tinder looking for someone who as she knows how to overcome appearances and wants to take care of a moment of life together, even just one night, in the absence of judgment. He wants to play. Tinder is like a carousel in which when you climb it is difficult to go down, it is fun to choose someone like reading a menu. In this game, Sara wants to be compensated by life, is hungry for everything that has been precluded. However, it does not tolerate the deception. He feels mistreated if the other despises the equality you require. He faces sex as a man and does not see why a woman cannot behave like this. The first step is “let’s take it”, then you will see if you want to speak, to exchange gestures of tenderness.
Jacopo, the first man he encounters, could be the chosen one?
Jacopo represents the other who could take care of her, but Sara always has the antennas pointed and also perceives his narcissism, the need that everything turns around his person and the claustrophobic situation in which he lives. As insecure as it is, he does not trust to let himself go and continues to look for confirmations with other people.
What does the relationship with other men offer you?
Confirmation of its beauty and seductivity. It is an adolescent mechanism: you are heading if you like others and you are supported in your identity.
How did Sara’s character create?
He was born from my internal voice. I had various friends of different ages who went to Tinder. I went to their profiles, they explained the mechanisms and shown the faces of the men with whom they left. Faced with their stories I had strong emotional reactions, I started transcribing them and so the character took shape. In Sara there is also a bit of me and the girls of the generation without Tinder. We too at the age of 17 led and flocked in search of confirmations, the mechanism is the same. I took care of her as a daughter: I suffered and I was afraid with her. Maria Tatsos
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