Noemi De Lisi is a narrator: no doubt. What kind of narrator is? It comes as narrator of the novel, has neither the story-telling instincts author of novels "popular" (adjective which must be taken for better or for worse) nor the constructive and formal instinct author of "cultured" novels ( adjective, too, must be taken for better or for worse). Noemi De Lisi is a storyteller, but I feel I prophesy that I never write a novel - or, if you will write, will be twelve hundred pages and it will be beautiful and unreadable (both adjectives should be taken only in the well). And so? So, Noemi De Lisi is a narrator who has so far managed to write (and publish here and there) some prose stories embarrassingly close to perfection; which managed to write (and publish here and there, making note) some compositions in verse that no, definitely were not "opera"; and now presents us, here, in the collection "The empty room", a rare item in Italian literature: a poem, or a joint of three poems, optional (and not change much), however, an ongoing stuff of a few hundred of verses and almost forty thousand jokes (Giulio Mozzi).