Man and genius, his real and imaginary universe. One hundred years after the birth of Federico Fellini, on January 20, 1920 in Rimini, curiosity about the dreamlike world, full of ideas and visions of the great Oscar-winning director, is rekindled. An incentive to retrace his adventure comes from new books, including those for children, and from the return of publications that are now unobtainable, such as Daniel Pennac's great tribute to the director or Charlotte Chandler's biography-conversation. Among the titles, the 'Dizionario intimo per parole e immagini' (Piemme) of the Fellini universe stands out, edited by his niece, Daniela Barbiani, with texts by Milan Kundera and Pietro Citati, in which the words, expressions, loves, memories and visual notes of the director are faithfully collected. Inspired by Pennac's old passion for a giant of Italian cinema who had a lifelong dialogue with dreams, 'La legge del sognatore', which arrives in bookstores on January 16th for Feltrinelli, stages the representation of life through a concatenation of dreams. And this book truly becomes a theatrical show that Pennac is bringing on tour from 20 to 22 January in Milan at the Piccolo Teatro Strehler, in Turin at the Auditorium of the Intesa Sanpaolo skyscraper and in Rimini at the Teatro Galli, thanks to a production by Compagnie MIA – Il Funaro, in co-production with Intesa Sanpaolo and in an adaptation by Daniel Pennac and Clara Bauer, who are also directing. In Bologna on January 19th, at the Salaborsa Library, Pennac will be in dialogue with Silvia Avallone. In the book Pennac imagines that the projector bulb goes out while he is watching Amarcord with his wife Minne and that, in order to fix it, he falls to the ground and has a series of dreams. And 'The Book of Dreams' returns to the bookstores in the Rizzoli illustrated series, the diary kept by Federico Fellini from the end of the 1990s until August XNUMX, in which the great director faithfully recorded his dreams and nightmares in the form of drawings, or in his own definition of "gross marks, hasty and ungrammatical notes". It is a colorful journey into the vast territories of fantasy in a new edition, with texts by Paolo Sorrentino, Gian Piero Brunetta, Filippo Ceccarelli, Simona Argentieri, Milo Manara, published in collaboration with the Municipality of Rimini and the National Museum of Cinema, the Experimental Center of Cinematography and the Cineteca of Bologna, accompanied by a new critical apparatus and a new graphic design. At the end of 2020, what will Rizzoli follow? the various events for the celebration of the centenary, will publish a Deluxe facsimile edition of the Book of Dreams and a paperback edition reserved for the opening of the Fellini Museum in Rimini. The now unobtainable 'I, Federico Fellini' by journalist Charlotte Chandler returns to the bookshops for Bur Rizzoli, bringing us back the director's biography-testament born from the partnership and conversations between Fellini and the journalist. The result is a first-person narrative, from his childhood in Rimini, to his love for Giulietta Masina who won him over with her voice, to his meetings with Marcello Mastroianni, Alberto Sordi and Anna Magnani. Ermanno Cavazzoni's cult novel 'Il poema dei lunatici', from which Fellini based his last film 'La voce della luna', also returns in a new edition published by La nave di Teseo. While Italo Moscati in 'Federico Fellini cent'anni: film, amori, marmi' (Castelvecchi) reveals the many faces of Fellini and his multifaceted talent and follows his films step by step from 'La dolce vita' to 'I Vitelloni'. Through heterogeneous sources and unpublished documents, the book 'Fellini e 8 1/2, la genesi' by Paolo Grassini, relaunched by Edizioni ETS, reconstructs the productive and creative genesis of a film that revolutionized cinematic language. The illustrated book by Federica Iacobelli, with illustrations by Puck Koper, an emerging talent in children's books, to be published by Camelozampa, is dedicated to 'Giulietta and Federico' and their love story and cinema. The book is inspired by their first meeting, when they were in their early twenties, in 1943 in the Eiar radio studios. Among the curiosities is the unpublished writing called by Fellini himself 'The astronaut's diet' which will be exhibited at the exhibition at the Angelica Library in Rome 'Federico Fellini. Ironic, mocking and centenary' which opens on January 20th.
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