Zanardi by Andrea Pazienza

A blistering, darkly comic portrait of a charismatic, amoral antihero and his circle, traced through episodic, hallucinatory vignettes that mix violence, crude humor, drugs and existential despair; the protagonist drifts through petty crimes, manipulations and self-destructive excess, embodying the alienation and restless energy of his generation while the narrative skewers social hypocrisy and authority, all rendered in jagged, kinetic visuals that shift between grotesque comedy and raw tragedy.

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