Italy in Paris, Baricco and Le Clézio, Don Winslow: here is «Lettura» – Corriere.it

In front of the Eiffel Tower will open, from Friday 21 to Sunday 23 April, the most important French exhibition dedicated to books, the Festival du Livre in Paris, at the Grand Palais phmre: this year the guest country of honor will be Italy, with two dedicated itineraries, the cycle Passions Italiennes and a parallel festival spread throughout Paris which is titled Very Italian and begins on April 17 with a show on Dante with Toni Servillo. To breathe the atmosphere of the Parisian event, which will see our country as the protagonist with an infinite number of debates, exhibitions, meetings with authors and readings, a large special dedicated to the event and to the relations between the two cultures and literatures opens the new issue of la Lettura, #594, Saturday 15 April in the App and Sunday 16 at the newsstand.

In addition to the most recent number of the insert previewed already on Saturday, the App de la Lettura for smartphones and tablets (downloadable from the App Store and Google Play) also offers subscribers the weekly newsletter and access to the archive of all released since 2011. And every day also a digital-only extra in-depth analysis: the Theme of the Day: that of Saturday 15 an in-depth analysis on Comicon festival in Naples (April 30-May 1) signed by Chiara Severgnini.

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Returning to the new issue, #594, the Parisian focus offers many interviews with representatives of cousin literatures, on both sides of the Alps. The Italian guest who will close the festival with an evening of honor (not only the Italian part of the program, but the whole festival) Alessandro Baricco, well-known and loved writer in France: interviewed by Alessia Rastelli, Baricco recounts his original link with that country so close to his Turin, the continuous osmosis between the two cultures, the literary backbone made up of great storytellers such as Balzac and Flaubert, the Cline’s influence on him.

But how well known, loved and read is Italy by writers beyond the Alps? The French writer replies Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clzio, Nobel Prize winner in 2008, interviewed by Vanni Santoni: Italian literature (born in Nice) was also important for his training, with its multiplicity of voices and traditions, with Cesare Pavese and with Gadda first from Milan and then from Rome. And he confesses that he regrets the dialect of Nice, similar to Italian.

The proximity between the two cultures, on the other hand, also testified by the lively exchanges of the publishing market between the two countries, with many translations in both directions, as Stefano Montefiori explains in the focus: his the interview with Brigitte Giraud, winner of the 2022 Goncourt prize with the novel Live fast (Guanda) which will also be in bookshops in Italy from 18 April. The intimate, personal themes touched upon by Giraud, who in the book starts from the tragic death of his companion, are appreciated by other female authors invited to the Festival: Mlissa Da Costa, in bookstores on April 18 with the love dramas of Snowdrop (Rizzoli) and the philosopher Claire Marin, author of The end of loves (Einaudi Stile libero), on sentimental traumas in today’s world.

In focus, also an immersion in the famous series of classics, the Bibliothque de la Pliade: the editorial director Hugues Pradier he talks about it to Nuccio Ordine, recounting the cultural project and the Italian releases of the library born in 1923; Furthermore, Pierdomenico Baccalario reflects on the success of Italian literature for children in France today (after Verne’s impatience with Salgari); and Stefano Bucci illustrates the first French exhibition of our Giovanni Bellini in Paris; articles by Giulia Ziino and Helmut Failoni complete the special.

Many other topics in the issue: Silvio Orlando tell Stefania Ulivi about her role in Moretti’s new film The sun of the future (in theaters April 20); and bestselling author Don Winslow explains to Gianni Santucci as the new City of dreams (HarperCollins Italy, from April 18) is the story of a modern Aeneas crossing America.