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The Captain survived every storm, even in the most remote seas. Now that his ships have weathered a violent storm like no other, he reveals to the cabin boy that their course is taking them far, so far that turning back is no longer possible. The new issue of la Lettura, #597, available on newsstands and in the App, offers a preview of some pages of the new novel by Fabio Genovesi: Pure gold (in bookstores from 6 June for Mondadori). Set in 1492, it tells the story of Christopher Columbus through the eyes of a ship boy. THE novels of the sea are the protagonists today of the Theme of the Day, a digital-only extra newspaper of the App de la Lettura: a text by Simone Innocenti that offers five examples of books inspired by water among sailors, merchant ships, whales, outward journeys, return journeys, experiences and dangers .

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. Subscribe
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The Reading App also collects other extra insights, such as Stefano Bucci’s on Sir David Chipperfield, Pritzker Prize 2023. And in the supplement on newsstands and the App there is the double conversation between Bucci himself and the architect Chipperfield, who will receive the prestigious award on May 24th in Athens; and with the photographer Alessandra Chemollo, who photographed many of the buildings designed by the British architect for the Venice exhibition. Alter Mundus is open until 4 June in the new space Le Stanze della Fotografia in Venice, on the island of San Giorgio, born from the joint initiative between Marsilio Arte and the Giorgio Cini Foundation which also produced the volume of the same name published by Marsilio Arte in 2022.

Many authors who have grappled with historical events in different ways to reflect on the legacy of the present can be read in supplement #597, on newsstands and in the App. In fact, literature loves to delve into history: the most recent, still little told and little known, or the oldest and most documented, which can become the territory of the imagination.

The Books section opens with two European authors who in their new works deal with particular aspects of an uncomfortable and still unexplored twentieth century: Spanish (and Basque) Fernando Aramburu and the French Pierre Lemaitre. Aramburu, interviewed by Paolo Lepri, talks about the new book Children of the fairy tale (Guanda, in bookstores from 16 May), in which he addresses the painful past of the country e the separatist terrorism of ETAnarrating in a tragicomic key the untimely affiliation of two young people (ETA has declared a truce since 2011) and investigating the mechanisms of armed violence.

The Goncourt Prize Pierre Lemaitre, interviewed by Stefano Montefiori, talks about the new novel Silence and anger (Mondadori, in bookstores from 16 May): the Pelletier family, already the collective protagonist of the previous one the big world, of 2022, becomes the mirror through which to show the France of the economic boom, the so-called Trente Glorieuses, starting from the 1950s, and reflect on the social and human cost of some choices. The example that Lemaitre recalls is that of a village in the province, flooded to build a dam, despite the protests of the inhabitants.

Other writers choose to tell the recent news: the Goncourt prize Mohamed Mbougar Sarr in the new The silence of the choir (and/or), tells the daily life of a community of 72 migrants in a small town, Aidone, in the province of Enna, mixing genres to give voice to needs, habits, organization of resources but also dreams: on la Lettura ne writes Alessia Rastelli. And in the Themes section of the App, you can read some pages taken from the first chapter of Sarr’s book.

A new key can discover new aspects of history, show more adventurous or shocking sides, while reflecting on human aspirations and values. Back to 1492 the writer Fabio Genovesi, than in his new novel Pure gold (Mondadori, in bookstores from 6 June) narrates Columbus’s feat, launched over hitherto unthinkable distances, through the gaze of a cabin boy: the issue of La Lettura anticipates a large passage from it.

The new issue of la Lettura also explores the rereading, in music, of a great author like Dostoevsky. Polish director Krzysztof Warlikowski sets up his first Italian opera direction in Rome, From a house of the dead, that Leoš Jancek. Helmut Failoni writes about it who interviewed the director and the Slavist Fausto Malcovati: On stage today’s prison. And in the Themes section of the App, the Theme of the Day Failoni himself retraces the (little known) musical transpositions of Dostoievskij’s works: Jancek, Sergej Prokof’ev and the others.