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Translation Rights / Frankfurt 2015 Tito Faraci / Giovanni De Luna / John Foot / Giuseppe Catozzella / Remo Bodei / Mario Mieli / Vinicio Capossela / Maurizio Maggiani / Boris Pasternak / Stefano Benni / Jonathan Coe / Roberto Saviano / Livia Manera Sambuy / Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa / Gianni Celati / Fabio Gambaro / Federico Rampini / Elvira Dones / Erri De Luca / Vandana Shiva / Alessandro Leogrande / Paolo Sorrentino / Mauro Magatti / Luce D’Eramo / Daniel Pennac / Massimo Recalcati / Mimmo Franzinelli / Pino Cacucci / Nadia Urbinati / Eugenio Borgna / Concita De Gregorio / Paolo Mancosu / Ermanno Rea / Michele Serra / Nicola Gardini / Grazia Verasani / Vincenzo Ruggiero Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 1 29/09/15 11.27 Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 2 29/09/15 11.27 STEFANO BENNI STEFANO BENNI Cari mostri / Dear Monster was born in Bologna in 1947. He is Stefano Benni feels certain that the end of humanity will be not the a journalist, writer, and poet who has result of an invasion by alien monsters but the destructive power written for the theater and staged and of a thousand monsters very similar to us. In this highly imaginative performed in numerous shows with masterwork, these include: the Wenge, a mysterious creature that various jazz and classical musicians. harbors the secret of human ruthlessness; teenagers who travel in For years he has hosted seminars a vacuum without perspective and without hope; a Russian plutocrat on reading and the imagination. who wants to free himself of a very old and vindictive tree; a director He is the author of several successful who aspires to resize the Egyptian museum in defiance of the novels translated and published in thirty Pharaoh’s mummy; a cackling Madonna; and a nimble investigator countries around the world. looking for a bumbling killer. With breathtaking dexterity Benni descends into the depths of Evil to try to make sense of it and to evoke the dark laughter of familiarity. Above all he vividly reveals to us the “monsters” we live with every day: our enemies, our poisons, our lies. “Our job is to expose the cruelty of the human race. You won’t change it, but just the same you should look deep into your ruthless heart.” Bar Sport (1976) Blues in sedici (1998) PUBLISHERS: Prima o poi l’amore arriva (1981) Teatro (1999) China: Ecus Terra! (1983) Spiriti (2000) I meravigliosi animali di Stranalandia (1984) Dottor Niù, corsivi diabolici per tragedie evitabili (2001) France: Actes Sud Comici spaventati guerrieri (1986) Saltatempo (2001) Germany: Wagenbach Il bar sotto il mare (1987) Achille pie’ veloce (2003) Hungary: Scolar Baol (1990) Margherita Dolcevita (2005) Japan: Kawade Shobo Ballate (1991) La grammatica di Dio (2007) La compagnia dei Celestini (1992) Pane e tempesta (2009) Romania: Nemira L’ultima lacrima (1994) Le Beatrici (2011) Russia: Vostochnaya Elianto (1996) Di tutte le ricchezze (2012) Serbia: Nova Knija Bar Sport Duemila (1997) Pantera (2014) Turkey: Eflatum 3 Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 3 29/09/15 11.27 REMO BODEI “Philosopher Remo Bodei’s absorbing meditation on identity and dreams.” Il Mattino “In Bodei’s study we see man as a guest of life, whose imagination gives him his liberty.” La Repubblica REMO BODEI Immaginare altre vite / has taught Philosophy for many years, Imagining Other Lives at the University of California in Los Angeles, at the Scuola Normale Superiore To escape the narrow horizons of our existence, we use imagination, in Pisa, and at the University of Pisa. fueled by comparison not only with real people, but also with figures Among his more recently translated works taken from literature and the media. Thanks to the development are The Logic of Delusion (2007) and We, of new communication technologies, each of us now has a huge the Divided: Ethos, Politics, and Culture repertoire of life patterns and experience drawn from different in Post-War Italy, 1943-2006 (2006). cultures and which alter our ways of daydreaming, thinking, and acting. In the past, in addition to parents and a limited circle of acquaintances, role models were relatively few and usually glorified: kings, leaders, founders of religions, saints, poets, and philosophers. Since the models with whom we identify ourselves have become inflated, and the field all but dominated by celebrities, the construction of an autonomous self – the ability to incorporate otherness and to benefit from it – has become more uncertain. The individual identity, a hybrid borne of imitation and invention (orientated around the unspoken question “Who would I like to be?”) on the one hand weakens when ephemeral role models lose their authority – and on the other hand, as if to compensate for this loss, requires the imitated subject to be even more visible and recognizable. But if each of us is connected to other existences and able to encompass many “lives,” perhaps we don’t so much run the risk of losing a consistent identity, but rather not growing, because of so much useless imitation, or, worse, embracing imitation to escape from the world and in the process paralyzing our own will. How then can we minimize oscillation between constraints imposed by reality and the logic of the arguments we want to subvert? Can one affect policy at a time when the precariousness and vulnerability of existence are felt so acutely, in turn reducing our chances of planning sensibly for the future? Geometria delle passioni (1994) PUBLISHERS OF IMMAGINARE Filosofia e emozioni (1999) ALTRE VITE: Destini personali (2002) Spain: Herder Editorial 4 Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 4 29/09/15 11.27 EUGENIO BORGNA “An exciting essay which looks at time as the key to understanding oneself and others.” Corriere della Sera EUGENIO BORGNA Il tempo e la vita / Life and Time is a leading clinical psychiatrist, emeritus What is time? What significance does it have to the life of a human head of the Psychiatric department being? How relevant is it to our identities and our experiences? Time at the Ospedale Maggiore in Novara, relates to finiteness, that inevitable aspect of mortality, but it also and lecturer in mental and nervous comprises the infinite, and along the way arouses emotions from pain illnesses at Milan University. to joy. Life would not be such if it weren’t measured by the passing He is the author of many books and essays, of hours, seasons, years, and that more personal sense of time that among which L’attesa e la speranza, cannot be measured exactly but nevertheless assists us in defining which won the Premio Bagutta in 2005. the experience of life itself. In short, in the absence of a temporal trajectory, there would be no subject, no plot. It’s not for nothing that time is a recurring theme in our literature and philosophy, not to mention its importance in psychopathology and other psychological studies and treatments. In its very passing, time conditions our daily lives and lends color to the mystical experiences that transcend it. It is a constitutive element of identity, permeating the consciousness and existence of each and every one of us. In probing the depths of the soul, therefore, one cannot neglect time’s role, nor the different experience each person makes of it. Sometimes we experience time as suspended, as in a dream, or fragmented, as in the torn memories of those who suffer from Alzheimer’s Disease. Paralysis turns time into boredom; a longing for the past turns it into nostalgia; a looking forward to the future transforms it again into expectation. Thus, in Life and Time, Eugenio Borgna tackles a crucial issue for the understanding of human psychology, one that has been touched upon in other work but not yet addressed with the thoroughness afforded it here. With reference to both general experiences and to his own personal memories, Borgna rivetingly explores the multifaceted nature of our fourth dimension in all its relativity, variations, and its essentiality to understanding nature and the human psyche. I conflitti del conoscere (1988) Come in uno specchio oscuramente (2007) Maliconia (1992) Nei luoghi della follia (2008) Come se finisse il mondo. Il senso Le emozioni ferite (2009) dell’esperienza schizofrenica (1995) La solitudine dell’anima (2011) Le figure dell’ansia (1997) Di armonia risuona e di follia (2012) Noi siamo un colloquio (1999) La dignità ferita (2013) L’arcipelago delle emozioni (2001) Le intermittenze del cuore (2003) L’attesa e la speranza (2005) 5 Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 5 29/09/15 11.27 PINO CACUCCI PINO CACUCCI Quelli del San Patricio / (Alessandria, 1955) is a journalist, writer, San Patricio’s Battalion translator, and traveler. His works include Outland Rock (Feltrinelli, 2007), Puerto San Patricio’s Battalion is about the failed battle of John Riley, an Escondido (Interno Giallo, 1990), which Irish emigrant who left the American army for the Mexican side, Gabriele Salvatores made into the film in search of justice and peace. It’s about the madness of war–a book by the same name; La polvere di Messico that resurrects, along with a little-known episode in American (Feltrinelli, 1996, 2004); Nessuno può history, the truth (or at least part of the truth) that we otherwise portarti un fiore (Feltrinelli, 2012; winner dare not to know. of the Chiara Prize); and Mahahual Captain John Riley is among the few survivors of a war that (Feltrinelli, 2014). devastated Mexico. He is now being looked after by a former guerrilla fighter and his faithful friend Consuelo, in a humble home in Veracruz. In 1846, America used the war as a pretext to annex Texas and also to occupy, during approximately two years of fighting, California, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico. The conflict marked a singular phenomenon: a large number of the Irishmen enrolled left the American forces in order to join the Mexican army.

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