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Elisabetta Foresti

 Il Misfatto is his first novel  and is awaiting publication

Elisabetta Forestiwas born and lives in Rome. After graduating in Biological Sciences she specialized in Clinical Pathology and worked as a Project manager for a pharmaceutical research and development company.

In 2018 she qualified first in the Scouting Night Live of the Oblique Studio agency, and in 2020 she was selected in the 8x8 the voice is heard competition of the same agency. Between 2020 and 2022 he wrote several stories that appeared in Reams, Indian Nation, Split, Spore and Il Rifugio dell'Ircocervo. In January 2022 she arrived among the fifteen finalists of the Laventicinquesimaora literary prize of the Belleville School, in March she was reported in the short list for the Orizzonte Contest Racconti call organized by The Florence Review, and in April she was classified among the eleven finalists of the InediTO Prize – Hills of Turin in the Fiction section – story. 

Marco, a young man imprisoned for the murder of his father, rejects the public defender's thesis regarding the motive and methods of the assassination, that is, he denies having killed him because he was seized by a sudden fit and denies having forced him to ingest a lethal dose of Valium; instead, he decides to tell the truth to the readers.

While he alternates the story of an erotomaniac and violent parent with memories  of his ex-girlfriend Elisabetta, a neurotic aspiring writer, interrogations with the lawyer, meetings with guards and prisoners, dreams and imaginations follow one another di Marco who comes to give four versions of the crime, exculpating himself each time in the eyes of the readers. In fact, between one version and another, Marco begins to have hallucinations, he is obsessed by a word spoken by his father before he died, he hears Elizabeth's voice accusing him of not telling the truth about the murder and believes he is being subjected to her unbeknownst to a psychotropic treatment perpetrated by the lawyer in order to make him confess falsely. 

Locked up in a "smooth cell" and subjected to interrogation, Marco reports that he lives in a society with unrealistic systems of repression and claims that Elizabeth has entrusted him with a mission called "prdarm". Then, he declares to readers that Elizabeth is actually his sister, adding that he lied for the shame of being sexually attracted to her, and also declares that he committed the crime to avenge her for the sexual abuse committed by his father. However, Elisabetta's voice never ceases to torment him, and only after a last confrontation with the lawyer   in which Marco, at the limit of his strength, bends over to his thesis, does everything seem to run out.

But it is only the beginning of a reversal: Marco's conscience becomes fragmented, and in an increasing mixing with that of Elisabetta, events and elements of reality are retraced and reinterpreted, until Marco realizes that the memories of the repressive society are a history conceived by Elisabetta, she realizes that she is a character of her fantasy, that is, that she is Elisabetta, whose awareness, gradually growing stronger, requires her to recognize that the prison is a psychiatric clinic and that no one killed her father – who died of illness – but that she herself attempted suicide with Valium after witnessing his death.

Marco's personality dies out, and Elizabeth, having come to her senses, fulfills the mission "prdarm", the last word said by her father which stands for "forgive me", thus managing to forgive her father and ask for forgiveness for abandoning him.

The story is entrusted to an unreliable narrator and concludes with an appendix containing photographic material and a brief annotation.

Marco, a young man imprisoned for the murder of his father, rejects the public defender's thesis regarding the motive and methods of the assassination, that is, he denies having killed him because he was seized by a sudden fit and denies having forced him to ingest a lethal dose of Valium; instead, he decides to tell the truth to the readers.

While he alternates the story of an erotomaniac and violent parent with memories  of his ex-girlfriend Elisabetta, a neurotic aspiring writer, interrogations with the lawyer, meetings with guards and prisoners, dreams and imaginations follow one another di Marco who comes to give four versions of the crime, exculpating himself each time in the eyes of the readers. In fact, between one version and another, Marco begins to have hallucinations, he is obsessed by a word spoken by his father before he died, he hears Elizabeth's voice accusing him of not telling the truth about the murder and believes he is being subjected to her unbeknownst to a psychotropic treatment perpetrated by the lawyer in order to make him confess falsely. 

Locked up in a "smooth cell" and subjected to interrogation, Marco reports that he lives in a society with unrealistic systems of repression and claims that Elizabeth has entrusted him with a mission called "prdarm". Then, he declares to readers that Elizabeth is actually his sister, adding that he lied for the shame of being sexually attracted to her, and also declares that he committed the crime to avenge her for the sexual abuse committed by his father. However, Elisabetta's voice never ceases to torment him, and only after a last confrontation with the lawyer   in which Marco, at the limit of his strength, bends over to his thesis, does everything seem to run out.

But it is only the beginning of a reversal: Marco's conscience becomes fragmented, and in an increasing mixing with that of Elisabetta, events and elements of reality are retraced and reinterpreted, until Marco realizes that the memories of the repressive society are a history conceived by Elisabetta, she realizes that she is a character of her fantasy, that is, that she is Elisabetta, whose awareness, gradually growing stronger, requires her to recognize that the prison is a psychiatric clinic and that no one killed her father – who died of illness – but that she herself attempted suicide with Valium after witnessing his death.

Marco's personality dies out, and Elizabeth, having come to her senses, fulfills the mission "prdarm", the last word said by her father which stands for "forgive me", thus managing to forgive her father and ask for forgiveness for abandoning him.

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