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To tell a single story - Calvino wrote - any narrator "takes away from himself the multiplicity of possible stories". Today, however, things go differently, and each story seems to exist precisely because of the innumerable developments, variations, multiplications, supplements that gravitate around it or that it is capable of generating. Against the background of what is often called the culture of recycling and an experience of expanded, expanded text, central to our contemporaneity, this book focuses on a particular type of textual operation - the continuation - trying to distinguish it from other practices ( rewriting, adaptation, remake ...), but also catching the oscillation points, the slips and the ambiguities. The continuation is analysed in its classical form, the sequel, in its form in some ways paradoxical, since it marches backwards instead of forward, the prequel, and in a third form that still needs to be focused and conceptualised, and that here goes under the name of paraquel or parallel continuation. Whether they take one direction or another, proceeding far or wide, these are strategies that allow you to negotiate with the end, to defer or revoke the last sequence, the last word, the last frame.
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