Ischia is a very interesting book about a girl who is waiting for a friend to go on a trip. While she is waiting, she remembers and she imagines a lot of things. She is waiting for something that will arrive but it doesn´t arrive yet, the topic of the book is about that time between two actions, about waiting, the anxiety, the expectation, the death time.
About what you think before make an action, a movement, a displacement, a fret, a change. The moment when you remember all the things that lead you to that situation, to that time and that place, the instant when you aren´t sure about what you are doing, the instant when you doubt, and you try to solve it by remembering. But you aren’t sure if what you remember was real or is an invention, maybe something you saw on TV, perhaps something you hear on a conversation, possibly something you infer but you don`t remember how or why you do it. You are alone and things, people and feelings doesn´t like as they usually like, and you think ¿what if? “¿What if I would make that movie? Now I would be rich and famous ¿How do I would live then? ¿What does my friends would think about me? ¿What do I would say when I meet famous and glamorous people? ¿What I want to do with my life form now? ¿What I will look after in this trip? ¿Why do I told that my friend?” It is the character in a middle of attracting and repulsing forces. The time is running and her friend doesn´t arrive, maybe she had an accident, ¿why doesn´t she call? ¿What if? The girl is closer to have to make a decision, but she waits, she waits for something that tells her what to do, a moral, aesthetical, physical perception.
This book show how a person can remember all her life and can save the world in her head in a very short time, but in the end it`s doesn´t change anything, all is kind of artificial and ephemeral.
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