L’apocalisse fantaecologica di Tiziano Sclavi

[Autom. eng. transl.] In 1978, Guerre terrestri by Tiziano Sclavi was published by Rusconi. Published in the “Playbook” series directed by Raffale Crovi, the book plays with genre hybridizations: ecodystopia and science fiction, apocalyptic narration and mystery story. The protagonist is a “comic book artist” aspiring writer, with evident autofictional traits, who witnesses a rebellion of objects and nature against him. If the antecedent can be La rivolta degli oggetti, a story that appeared in the “Corriere dei Ragazzi” in 1976, after a further passage in installments in the “Corriere della Sera” in the summer of 1992, with the title Il nemico, the novel will definitively become Apocalisse the following year, when Crovi acquires it in the Camunia catalogue. What the apocalypse is and the privileged point of view to observe it is clear. Who the enemy is, however, remains unknown: perhaps man himself, masked behind the well-being of consumerism. Facts and fictions thus mix on the Slavian page to question the reader about his relationship with the world.