{"id":4114,"date":"2015-05-06T11:05:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T10:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=4114"},"modified":"2015-05-07T16:12:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T15:12:54","slug":"alumnus-christian-moretti-publishes-debut-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/05\/06\/alumnus-christian-moretti-publishes-debut-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Christian Moretti publishes debut novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian G Moretti, an alumnus from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Department of Comparative Literature<\/a>, has just has his first novel published in Italian, entitled <em>Che Morte non vi Separi<\/em> [<em>Till Death Don\u2019t Do Us Part<\/em>] (Europa Edizioni, 2015).<\/p>\n<p><em>Che\u00a0Morte non vi\u00a0Separi<\/em> tells the story of Cesare, a quiet student in Milan, whose\u00a0life takes a dramatic turn when he meets Tor, a Swede new to the city. The two start a relationship together, but after a homophobic attack, Cesare is left in a coma. He still able to perceive his surroundings, but the two are left trying to communicate, and form an unconventional way of loving each other told through a series of intimate monologues.<\/p>\n<p>This is Christian\u2019s second book, following his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/postgraduate\/research-comparative-literature.html\">PhD in Comparative Literature<\/a> in 2013, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/news\/index.html?view=3549\">published his thesis in January<\/a> as <em>Conversations with the Self<\/em> (Troubador, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>Christian joins other alumni from the Department of Comparative Literature to go on to become novelists, included Lesley Gray, <em>The King\u2019s Jockey <\/em>(Solis Press, 2013) as well as the prolific writer David Mitchell, author of <em>Cloud Atlas <\/em>(Scepte, 2004), which was adapted into a Hollywood movie of the same name. Mitchell studied on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/postgraduate\/taught-comparative-literature.html\">MA in Comparative Literature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more details on Christian\u2019s book, please see the publisher\u2019s webpage here (in Italian): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europaedizioni.it\/1\/che_morte_non_vi_separi_christian_g_moretti_10393160.html\">www.europaedizioni.it\/1\/che_morte_non_vi_separi_christian_g_moretti_10393160.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian G Moretti, an alumnus from the Department of Comparative Literature, has just has his first novel published in Italian, entitled Che Morte non vi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/05\/06\/alumnus-christian-moretti-publishes-debut-novel\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":4120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,18583,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4144,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions\/4144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}