“Imago Lux”, by Adriano Angelini Sut: Evil walks among us
“Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven” (Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven). One of the most famous verses in all English literature, the words spoken by Lucifer when he was expelled from the kingdom of heaven in John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost" . The fallen angel, the morning star, punished for having conspired with a handful of rebel angels against the creator, is punished and thrown into the bowels of the earth and here he decides to forge his new kingdom, to be king in turn.
An awareness with which Eva Roscioli, established psychologist, author of bestsellers on the subject of demonic possession between science and the supernatural, has come to terms. Eve saw things that no one could imagine, she looked Evil in the face and challenged him and since then she is destined to fight you to the end. A struggle that began in the late 60s, on the wave of youthful intoxication, protest, hippies, free love, LSD-induced lysergic travel. Liliana, her elder sister, returns to Rome from the United States inebriated by these novelties: bell-shaped jeans, fringes, flowered trucks, Beatles and Rolling Stones records, just enough to scandalize a family of the good Roman bourgeoisie. What's more, Liliana, in addition to joining a rather radical hippie commune, is engaged to Luc Apofi, a painter with a mysterious past, author of disturbing paintings whose theme is the inexorable victory of darkness over light. As if that were not enough, the young woman became pregnant with the man and this will start a series of events that will lead Eve between mysterious Roman catacombs where satanic rites and monasteries are consumed in the south of France, the scene of the ancient struggle between good and evil. and of the crusades against the Albigensians. A journey against Evil and its most powerful emissary: Lucifer, the one who truly rules over the physical world.
Adriano Angelini Sut, in " Imago Lux " ( Ensemble Editions ), his latest novel, takes us on a hallucinating journey through the darkness. The one that surrounds the world and the one that dwells in us, bound by an inseparable relationship. A humanity struggling against an entity with a thousand tentacles that follows us crawling in the shadows, crosses our lives with its emissaries and crushes us in its coils. It does so with fascinating writing, it envelops us in a whirlwind of terror that becomes as essential to us as a drug.
Despite the tension, in this novel, one can breathe above all in the apparently more peaceful and convivial moments, where the characters seem to have triumphed, it is impossible to detach from the pages. The author creates a distressing and haunting work by diluting the suggestions of "Rosemary's baby" and "The Exorcist" by presenting Ira Levin and William Peter Blatty, with his majesty, the undisputed Lord of nightmares HP Lovecraft.
“ Imago Lux ” is an inexhaustible work, which continues to frighten and terrify us even after the first reading. Nothing is ever clear definitively, the characters find themselves walking at the mercy of reality and suggestion, rationality and madness. In the background the 60s, the hippie world, acid Satanism, the family of Charles Manson, all up to the present day, descending us into an Italy desertified by the pandemic of Covid-19 . A terrible and whirlwind investigation, an implacable obsession where nothing can reassure us. Evil walks among us, obsessively trying to understand it is the first step towards our destruction.
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