Afun Pierfrancesco Favino will play Bettino Craxi in a film directed by Gianni Amelio
鈥淩ealism is a prison and a tyranny鈥? said Mohsin Amid, author of a novel coming out these days for Einaudi. In 鈥淓xit West鈥?鈥?this is the title of the book 鈥?you can disappear from a country at war and then materialize your body on another continent. It happens through the fantastic trick of a door - for example the door of a storage room - which allows Saeed and Nadia,
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ugg in sale to abandon a destroyed city, where you get used to the vibrations caused by the explosion of car bombs and where football is played in the street with the head of a human being. He enters the storage room and shortly afterwards emerges into a luxury apartment in London. Science fiction, stargate or perhaps a clue that leads to a surrealist novel: after all, doesn't the name of the protagonist recall Andr茅 Breton's Nadja? The place where she hasmid pronounced the sentence on realism in literature is a small room in the delightful Punto Einaudi in Corso di Porta Vigentina, in Milan, where on Saturday afternoon - just after lunch - a dozen bloggers and journalists had the fortune of meeting and discussing with Hamid, according to a very intimate and, I believe, little used formula. The meeting at Punto Einaudi was a bit like listening to mass in Latin, while publishing often recalls that priest who tried to rap the Gospel in an episode of Maurizio Costanzo Show. Libreria Punto Einaudi: remote, tiny sign on the map, which on Saturday welcomed an event very far - so it seemed to me - from the usual editorial promotion or self-marketing on social media espoused by the authors clumsily, without making it an art, in bad complicity with algorithms and finding mostly derision...
