MEN ON THE RUN (Uomini in fuga) by Carlo Coccioli

Originally written in Spanish and published for the first time in Mexico, Hombres en
Fuga is inspired to the author by the seventeen years he had been living with a
person sunk in the vortex of alcoholism.
«The most Mexican of my books» Carlo Coccioli described it because «it is a book of
pain, of direct truth with no mediation». That story looked like a dream, time
later, or rather a nightmare: seventeen years of “horror mixed with love” for a man
who could not avoid to dull his senses with alcohol, “a defenseless dragonfly who
used to transform himself into a jaguar”. For three years, therefore, Carlo Coccioli
attended as an observer the meetings of the Alcoholics Anonymous in Mexico City
where he lived. He met there about fifty men and women, of all social backgrounds
and of all ages, who used to tell their own stories of successes and failures, hopes
and ruinous relapses. In their eyes he found that angry double that he already
glimpsed in the gaze of his loved one. A painful and very personal novel, but at the
same time an anthropological research to try to understand the demon from which all
men on the run flee.