sentences:  He decides after to live abroad, first in France between 1969 and 1970 (Lille and then Paris), then in Britain (London between 1970 and 1971), Germany (Munich, 1971 and 1972, Berlin in 1974), Spain (Barcelona in 1973) and in the US (New York, in 1976) working as waiter, sweeper, night porter or kitchen boy.He therefore learns several languages (French, English, German, Spanish) and keeps on revising "Il Monoclino" (his debut book that in 1984 will be published with the definitive title of "Seminar on Youth").Back in Italy he works occasionally as an interpreter (experience that will be at the basis of his second novel "The Standard Life of a Temporary Pantyhose Salesman" and he engages in his first translations from English and German.