Animated Farceurs
Co-authored with the Italian analytic psychologist Gaetano Roberto Buccola, Burloni animati in libera uscita [ca. Animated Farceurs in a Free-for-All] comprises a myriad short literary pieces, ranging from one-line aphorisms to longer parables and allegories, tackling the greatest variety of subjects in both philosophy and the social sciences. Each piece aims at entertaining, engaging with, and encouraging the reader to reflect on and, if possible, re-assess the normally accepted tacit assumptions forming the background of received knowledge and conventional wisdom. All of this is pursued via the protean vehicle of humour, which is correctly and habitually connoted as “light-hearted,” “funny,” and “amusing,” but also intriguingly and insightfully qualified as “punching,” “scorching,” “burning,” “roasting, “teasing,” “piercing” and “acerbic.”
Albeit being the eleventh book published by Giorgio Baruchello in his career, Burloni animati in libera uscita is the first one that he wrote in his mother tongue, Itali