Everything That Happens in Red Desert (Contents)

Below is a list of all 52 parts in this series. Hyperlinks will be added week by week as the series continues.

1. Loss of focus

2. The desert and its colours

3. Noise and noise-music

4. Robotic and human songs

5. Outside the factory

6. The sandwich and the slag-heap

7. Inside the factory

8. The cloud of steam

9. The ‘love’ triangle

10. Night terrors

11. Familial terrors

12. Desert spaces

13. The fruit-seller

14. Celeste e verde

15. The beginning of the affair

16. The growth of the affair

17. Giuliana’s illness

18. The daytrip gone wrong

19. Industry, exploitation, and ‘Sick Eros’

20. Something terrible in the fog

21. Corrado’s philosophy

22. How to see and how to live

23. Valerio and the chemistry set

24. The suitcase and the gyroscope

25. The island of SAROM

26. Attempted suicide

27. Briefing the workers

28. Shifting focus

29. What Corrado sees and feels

30. The disintegration of values

31. Alienation and loneliness

32. Loneliness and childhood

33. Valerio’s paralysis

34. A story for Giuliana

35. The ship and the song

36. The hotel

37. An incurable need

38. Giuliana and her environment

39. What is Giuliana afraid of?

40. What happens to Giuliana?

41. The transformation

42. Two failed projects

43. Something terrible in reality

44. Corrado’s exit

45. The docks

46. Does this ship take people?

47. Giuliana’s explanation

48. Absurdity and the desert

49. The artist and reality

50. Re-inserted in reality

51. Our place in the red desert

52. Seen enough today

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