IL MAESTRO DELL'ORRORE - NELLA MENTE DI JUNJI ITO

With his vast production of short stories and successful series, Junji Itō has now established himself as the absolute master of horror manga. From the disturbing Tomie to the nightmare of Uzumaki, Itō has intertwined mythology, urban legends, and the daily anxieties of our time into a single, terrifying universe. In this book, Gioele Cima offers a meticulous analysis of the monsters and atmospheres in the Master's work, tracing a path where psychoanalysis brings out the worst nightmares that have characterized the human condition from its beginnings to today: from the fear of death to the traumatic encounter with others, from the disaster of war to the traps of the dream world, from the contradictory nature of human desire to its confrontation with the monstrous feminine. And if, in the end, the hardest truth to digest was that monsters do not exist?