The #fuorifestival of Salerno Letteratura are back. Sunday 10 September at 18.45:XNUMX pm, at the spaces of the Pinacoteca provinciale in via Mercanti, in Salerno, there will be a meeting with Enrico Rotelli, author of Nanda and Io, i miei anni con Fernanda Pivano (La nave di Teseo). Francesca Salemme will host.
THE BOOK
«She had an arm in a sling, but she felt that the world was still listening to her. As was her habit, she looked up at the ceiling in search of words and dictated to me without doubt or hesitation an article that revealed the failure of her dreams, but not of the enthusiasm of those who still had those dreams. She said that in the spaces under the moon, where those boys had talked about flowers and made love, a few years later they had ended up talking about how to get hot water into attics. They had ended up talking about sacrifices and the danger of dreams. About the price of oil and weapons. Then Nanda looked me in the eyes. “You boys with your long hair make history, you sons of bitches!” She, who had known the Beats very well, could only wish that we, the new generation of disconsolate youth, would do at least some of those libertarian actions».
It is with sweetness and great esteem that, in these pages, Enrico Rotelli talks about Fernanda Pivano: he does so as her assistant - he has been since 2004 - but above all with the vehemence of a young man not yet thirty who, faced with an uncertain future, dreams of the adventure of revolution and literature. He has been at her side in recent years, helping her in the drafting of perhaps the most important work of all: her autobiography. And now, in this touching memoir that has the flavor of a coming-of-age novel, he relives those years, the travels, the meetings with the best geniuses of a bygone era but not for this reason lost, indeed always alive and vibrant from generation to generation, and thus composes the portrait - intellectual and profoundly human - of one of the most authentic and disruptive figures of Italian literature.
THE AUTHOR
Enrico Rotelli, biographer and journalist, collaborates with the cultural pages of Corriere della Sera with articles and interviews on American literature. He was Fernanda Pivano's assistant, editing her books Diari, Medaglioni and Viaggi ad alta voce and for years he followed the editorial projects of the Fabrizio De André Foundation. He is also co-author of the autobiographical books by Valentina Cortese Quanti sono i domani passato (Quanti sono i domani passato), which was adapted into the film Nastro d'Argento Award and Donatello Award Diva!; Carla Fracci Passo dopo passo (Step by Step); Paola Turci Mi amerò lo noce (I will love myself anyway) and Gillo Dorfles Paesaggi e personaggi (Landscapes and characters). He recently translated Francis Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby for Bompiani.
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