Feeling 'tight in the world', out of place, foreign to the world is certainly an aspect that unites the three authors (Kafka, Buzzati and Camus) that we have chosen to talk about. Feeling foreign is a painful and negative feeling that at least allows the literary protagonists of the aforementioned authors to become authentic ('authentic' in the Heideggerian sense of the term), to escape the "stupidity of all things", to fully perceive their profound existential fragility , in absolute absence of pretense.
And feeling extraneous can also sometimes take on an ethical value that we would dare say positive: a strenuous attempt to open up to the other (often without success) giving up that demonic sense of the privatistic possession of things (in Buzzati but also in Kafka) or in any case to that monstrous fiction in daily relationships that plagues our lives (and here we think of the "Stranger" of Camus).

Mario Gamba, professor of history and philosophy in Borgomanero, has published various literary works for children and adolescents (with the collaboration of Simone Fornara), and various non-fiction works. For Giuliano Ladolfi publisher he published Il libro di Melchisedec (2017), with interventions and additions by Eugenio Borgna and Marco Feo. Again for the types of Giuliano Ladolfi Editore he published Against the nartecofori (2018) and Come sogliole split in due (2019), together with Flavio Degasperis and Patrizia Valloggia, and 'Strana' science and 'gay' science (2019) with Maurizio Medina and Luca Monfrinotti.

Riccardo Giandrini, professor of History and Philosophy in Garbagnate Milanese, contributed to the Xenia project for the Liceo di Borgomanero, with an intervention on Kafka, published by Giuliano Ladolfi publisher. He is currently pursuing a doctorate at the University of Cologne, Germany, deepening the themes of anthropology and Bildung in the work of Franz Kafka, with prof. J. Zirfas as Doktorvater.

Laura Meregalli. Professor of History and Philosophy in Chiari, he contributed to the Xenia project for the Liceo di Borgomanero, with an intervention on Camus, published by Giuliano Ladolfi publisher.