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Preface

The book is made of three monologues. I call them fictional autobiographies. The voices I have chosen are of three historically real figures: Kabir (1440-1518), Maria Chekhova (1863-1957) and Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639). By and large I haven’t altered verifiable biographical facts but I have used creative instinct and imagination to make the voices narratively real and palpable. To infuse narrative drive to the monologues I have introduced a few fictional characters, such as Kalu Kasera in Kabir, Olga S and Egorushka in Maria Chekhova and Pietro, Abram Levi and Luigi Jolli in Tommaso Campanella. The existence of these characters can not be verified but their presence is highly probable and historically plausible. My research tells me that people like these did exist and might have played roles similar to those I have described in these imagined narratives. As far as possible I have tried to create real and authentic voices but the sensibility that drives the narrative is defined by the anxieties of our times.