Giorgio Voghera . is the second part of the "Cafe Central Trilogy" by author Elias Schneitter. While each volume stands alone, all three parts revolve around a mysterious Coffee House poet. The reader is never quite sure whether this poet really exists. The narrative does not tell a story in the literal sense but uses notes, snippets and fragments - using the cut up technique - to piece together the biography of this unusual character. The linear narrative style is completely pulled apart, the author's copyright heavily undermined and challenged. This is the foundation for tackling the topics that shape a biography: love, relationships, everyday life, philosophy, death, literature, art, co-existence. All these subjects are broached in a truly unique style, using headlines, short accounts, anecdotes, lies and platitudes etc. It is an apparently wild and chaotic mix, in which the underlying themes keep on popping up, only to disappear again, as they bow to the next "news items".

Elias Schneitter was born and grew up in Zirl in Tyrol, Austria. After completing his schooling in Stams, he had a variety of jobs, working in souvenirs, as an office clerk, a canoeing teacher in Sturgeon Lake - Minnesota, a project manager for Ho-Ruck, a social program for former inmates, and as an employee for the Austrian social security system. Today, he works as a freelance author. He is co-founder of the international literature festival "sprachsalz" in Hall, Tyrol and head of the small publishing house "edition-baes". His first publications started appearing from 1974, mainly in literary magazines (Fenster, Rampe, wespenest, protokolle, projektil) and as radio plays. His first book was published in 1979 (geflügelte worte). In 2014, he was presented with the Kathy Acker Award for his commitment to promoting international literature, above all, between the USA and the German-speaking world.