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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

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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

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“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

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“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)

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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. Among them was the artillery lieutenant John Riley, who formed the Batallón San Patricio, and who would go on to inflict severe damage to the troops led by Generals Taylor and Scott. These Irishmen were considered not only deserters but symbols of supreme betrayal. After the war’s last battle, in the suburbs of Mexico City, the triumphant troops attacked the few surviving members of the San Patricio unit, and, with extreme ferocity, flogged them and branded them with the letter “D,” for deserter. Then they hanged them. All but one: Captain Riley. Mexico was a place Riley could call home. And now, after the fighting recedes, the epic wave of memory returns, the horror of the massacres as well as the memory of the close but troubled friendship between Riley and Captain Aaron Cohen, the head of West Point.

Outland rock (1988) Gracias México (2001) PUBLISHERS: Tina (1991) Mastruzzi indaga (2002) France: Bourgois San Isidro Futból (1991) Oltretorrente (2003) Greece: Agra Punti di fuga (1992) Nahui (2005) UK: Haus La polvere del Messico (1992, 2004) Un po’ per amore e un po’ per rabbia (2008) Spain: Hoja de Lata Forfora e altre sventure (1997) Sotto il cielo del Messico (2009) In ogni caso nessun rimorso (1994) Le balene lo sanno (2009) Camminando. Incontri di un viandante (1996) ¡Viva la vida! (2010) Demasiado corazón (1999) Nessuno ti porterà un fiore (2012) Ribelli! (2001) Mahahual (2014) 6

Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 6 29/09/15 11.27 VINICIO CAPOSSELA

“Il Paese dei Coppoloni is a book full of history and studded with stories. His writing has a mythical quality to it, taking off and flying high. This a sparkling operetta morale, the night song of a wandering musician.” La Repubblica

“An amazing epic fairy tale.” Il Mattino

VINICIO CAPOSSELA Il paese dei coppoloni / was born in Hannover on December 14, Coppoloni Country 1965. He is a singer, songwriter, and the author of several books published in Where do you come from? To whom do you belong? What are you Italy by Feltrinelli and Il Saggiatore. His looking for? work and music have been considerably influenced by his studies of the myths, of These are the questions our traveling narrator asks himself in the Ernesto De Martino and Carlo Levi, of the land of his fathers. He has a sharp eye and a memory for stories, Homeric epic and of American literature which come to him in the guise of figures, each leading him on and inspiring him, each a factor in his destiny. including Herman Melville and Sherwood Anderson. Writing in the London Times, These figures take the form of places and characters with twisted Clive Davis describes Capossela as names and mythical properties, each immersed in a landscape that “always engaging, always curious… Italy’s blends the known and the unknown. Scatozza, Mandarino, Totara, answer to Tom Waits.” Cazzariegghio, Pacchi Pacchi, Testadiuccello, Camoia, and Marescialla: each addresses the wanderer, each warns him, each appears to be the guardian of a truth evermore detached or even outside of history. The traveler (as well as the reader) must measure himself against an inheritance of wisdom that seems to abandon everyone who moves along these particular paths and roads–in the moonlight, or in the bright light of midday, accompanied by braying dogs.

And then there are the musicians. They play wedding music, the music of a sonnet, music for killing a pig, music for dancing until you collapse, serenades, funereal songs, songs of the countryside, of revelation.

Capossela has written a memorable work in which reality is visible only behind the deforming veil of a grandiose and epic sense of human existence. His notion of the past returns to us in the form of mysteries and splendours, the opacity of our chaos.

Non si muore tutte le mattine (2004) In clandestinità (2009)

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GIUSEPPE CATOZZELLA Il grande futuro / The Great Future writes for La Repubblica, L’Espresso, Amal is born on an island where there is a war going on between Vanity Fair and the Italian edition the army and the black population–soldiers who in one hand clutch of the Financial Times. He has published a rifle and in the other a book of holy scripture. Amal is the youngest the novels Espianti (Transeuropa, 2008), of a family servile fishermen, and best friend to Ahmed, son of the Alveare (Rizzoli, 2011; Feltrinelli, 2014), wealthiest man in the village. When he was young, Amal’s chest was which has been adapted into several stage ripped open by a land mine, and now Amal–whose name is Arabic for plays and a TV movie, and Non dirmi che hope–has a heart inside him that is not his own. Amal and Ahmed hai paura (Little Warrior) which is being promise undying friendship, lose themselves in their dreams and translated around the world, and which in the sea, make plans for the future, and share the affections won the Strega Giovani prize in 2014, of Karima. was shortlisted for the 2014 Strega prize, These two boys live a suspended, almost fairy-tale existence, which and is being developed into a film and a is shattered when the tensions that weigh on the village divide it. In this new climate of conflict and death, even Amal’s father leaves television documentary. Giuseppe town, taking with him an unspeakable secret. Left alone, Amal once is a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR. again calls on the comfort and wisdom of the sea, which tells him that he must make his way to the Imam of the Grand Mosque in the desert and fill his void with a religious education. Amal turns to prayer, pure Islam, but resists the pressure of recruitment. He resists until a mysterious and indigent shadow that is haunting the mosque is revealed to be the father who abandoned him. Only then does he allow himself to enlist, and religion inspires him to act. His military education makes him a warrior, a man. The meaning of his life is to fight against the enemy in the name of what is Good. He must also take a young bride, who will leave him a dynasty when he dies; instead, in Marya he discovers a love that goes beyond the mere prospect of producing “new warriors.” From this love onwards, his path unfurls toward a fate that gradually reveals a new, great future.

Non dirmi che hai paura (2014) PUBLISHERS OF Netherlands: De Geus NON DIRMI CHE HAI PAURA: Norway: Pax Albania: Botimet Dudaj Poland: Sonia Draga Arab Countries: Almutawassit Serbia: Laguna Catalonia: Sembra Slovenia: Mladinska Knija Finland: LIKE Spain: Grijalbo - PRH France: Seuil Taiwan: Rye Field Germany: Knaus - Bertelsmann UK: Faber Israel: Yedioth USA: Penguin Press

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“Celati seeks to tell it like it is, without baroque flourish or rococo artifice. What he has not seen or met is beyond the horizon and absent from his canvas.” The Spectator

“Gianni Celati: unusual, plural, multifaceted, nonconformist.” La Stampa

GIANNI CELATI Narratori delle pianure / was born in Sondrio in 1937. Emeritus Storytellers of the Plains Professor of Anglo-American literature at the University of Bologna, he is the One of the most important short story collections in Italian literature translator of Celine, Melville, Stendhal, floats between a dream world and everyday life. In 1984, Italo Swift, Twain, London, Barthes, Holderlin, Calvino announced the publication of Storytellers of the Plains: and others. Discovered as a novelist by “After years of silence, Celati returns now with a book whose centre Italo Calvino, he made his debut in 1970 is the visible world and an ever more interior acceptance of the daily with Comiche. Storytellers of the Plains landscape in what would seem least likely to stimulate the imagination.” Thirty short stories set in the valley of the Po River won the Premio Cinque Scole and the that are funny and fantastic, sad and terrible. Premio Grinzane Cavour.

In what amounts to a cantata, the narrators evaporate, leaving behind brief tales that establish the tellers’ existences by recording their inability to overcome alienation and despair. Celati adopts a deceptively simple style in both his language and structure to weave angst into the stuff of myth: his generous, panoramic vision imparts a fable-like quality to what might otherwise have been merely a string of absurd sketches. Across these pages flit children oppressed by ennui; a scholar who rewrites classic works in order to supply each with a happy ending; a multigenerational trio that uses encephalograms to pinpoint just what “makes the world go on;” a barber who looks for tangible proof of his existence. Many of the disembodied “storytellers” here have been undone by the inadequacies of language, a theme that Celati develops imaginatively and integrates with delicacy. By travelling and gathering stories on the banks of the Po River, Celati rediscovers the oral narrator that was so important to Walter Benjamin: his stories celebrate this vanishing species, while pointing up the environmental decay that not only affects landscapes, but also the craft of telling tales and exchanging experiences.

Quattro novelle sulle apparenze (1989) Verso la foce (1992) Le avventure di Guizzardi (1994) Lunario del paradiso (1996) La banda dei sospiri (1998) Avventure in Africa (1998) Fata morgana (2005) Sonetti del Badalucco (2010) Passar la vita a Diol Kadd (2011)

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“Coe has always been a virtuoso of voice. He is a master of a kind of distinctively English comedy.” New Statesman

JONATHAN COE Lo specchio dei desideri / was born in Birmingham in 1961. The Broken Mirror His most recent novel is The Rain Before It Falls. He is also the author of The Broken Mirror is bestselling author Jonathan Coe’s first book for The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, both children and adults. It is a parable about the power of vision and The Dwarves of Death, What a Carve desire to change reality–but only if our visions and desires are shared. Up!, which won the 1995 John Llewellyn It is also the story of Claire, a young girl who escapes her negligent Rhys Prize, The House of Sleep, which parents and takes refuge in the garbage dump behind her house. won the 1998 Prix Medicis Etranger, The There, she finds a piece of broken mirror with magical powers. This Rotter’s Club, winner of the Everyman shard of glass can transform even the worst reality into an Wodehouse Prize and The Closed Circle. enchanted world: the grey sky turns into a beautiful azure, a modest He has also published a biography of suburban house becomes a castle surrounded by exquisite seashells. From then on, Claire goes everywhere with her magical piece of the novelist B.S. Johnson, which won the mirror, in which her face is spotless and her body perfectly lithe. Orwell prize in 2005. He lives in London with his wife and two children. One day, returning from school, Claire looks into her mirror and sees the reflection of her father and mother together in a pub. This seems very strange to Claire, because previously her parents were constantly fighting. Why are they now sweetly chatting to each other, laughing and embracing as happy lovers do? But when Claire puts the mirror down and looks at the pub with her own eyes, she sees that in fact the woman with her father isn’t her mother at all. She’s a young and beautiful girl, and her father seems to be enchanted by her.

So it seems that in the broken mirror, Claire sees only the figment of a life, the life that she wants to see: better skin, a better body, two happy loving parents, and lots of friends.

The Broken Mirror teaches us that it really is possible to improve our everyday lives, if only we come together to share our visions, unify our aims, and merge our strengths.

PUBLISHERS OF LO SPECCHIO DEI DESIDERI: Brazil: Record France: Gallimard Jeunesse Greece: Polis Netherlands: De Bezige Bij / Cargo

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“Honor the Baboon is a circus of words and characters that is fun despite its low-life setting.” La Repubblica

“Fast, dry, funny – Dalai’s novel displays all of these gifts.” Il Giornale

MICHELE DALAI Onora il babbuino / Honor the Baboon was born in Milan in 1973. He is a Honor the Baboon is a ruthless, droll, and irreverent novel based on publisher and a collaborator of various a real-life thug from Turin. The book flings open the hatch on Italy’s newspapers and radio and television criminal underworld, laying bare its inevitably tragicomic nature. programs as well as the author of the novel Le più strepitose cadute della mia Cardo is the son of a policeman who emigrated from southern Italy vita and a non-fiction book on football to the outskirts of Turin with the economic boom of the sixties. He entitled Contro il tiqui taca. has never thought of anything else in his life other than how to make a living by stealing.

From the beginning, he has learned his trade from Davide, the son of a senator and a heart surgeon, and with whom he absorbs and perfects the art of theft in its many forms. Ever since he was a child, Cardo has earned respect in his field, and is considered the undisputed king among his grotesque dominion of emigrants and misfits, shabby bars and rusted automobiles, whores, Africans and Chinese. Guaranteeing him this uncontested power is Kira, the huge lioness who lives in his yard and never eats fewer than five kilos of meat a day.

Between beautiful women and deformed dancers, games of chance and risk, Class A drug-taking and more, Cardo lives an existence of petty robberies, not-so-petty arrests, deals and bribes with the latest boss or politician of influence, and Mafia contacts. And yet he always maintains a certain equilibrium, helped in part by Sergio, his trusty if clumsy sidekick in hijinx. And it’s with Sergio that he’s plotting the last big hit of his life: Il Colpo, the culmination of a lifetime in crime.

Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 11 29/09/15 11.27 CONCITA DE GREGORIO

“The story told by Concita De Gregorio is of a soul grappling with life, a story of femininity and loneliness.” Il Sole 24 Ore

“Concita tells us the universal lesson for mothers: to learn to live with absence.” Corriere della Sera

“The author weaves a dialogue with Irina, showing in addition to the pain, a return to life.” La Repubblica -HIPV3V]PUV

CONCITA DE GREGORIO Mi sa che fuori è primavera / is a graduate of the University of Pisa. I Think It’s Spring Outside She began working as a journalist for local newspapers and then received This is the story of Irina, a woman who has not forgotten her painful a scholarship to join La Repubblica, past; on the contrary, she holds it close to her like a flower. Only four where she was a politics and culture years ago, Irina had a serene, orderly life. A husband, twin daughters. correspondent for twenty years. She An Italian living in Switzerland, she’d forged a successful career as a returned to La Repubblica as a columnist lawyer. But then the serenity cracked. Her marriage ended, civilly after overseeing L’Unita from 2008 to enough. She and her husband, Mathias, agreed to share custody of the girls. And on a weekend like any other, Alessia and Livia went 2011. She hosts the RaiTre television to stay with their fathe–but never came home. Mathias was found program Pane quotidiano (Daily Bread) dead in southern Italy a few days later, of an apparent suicide. The and is co-founder of the Spanish magazine six-year-old twins have never been found. A gripping psychological Ctxt. She has four children. thriller as well as a clear-eyed portrait of a modern and courageous yet sensitive woman, the novel describes the process by which Irina picks up the shattered pieces of her life and slowly, bravely, puts them together again. Out of a brutally painful past emerges a glimmer of light. Also emergent is the ability to love again, and better: to experience a respectful, trusting, and steadfast love that heals. From the simple, terrible facts of the true story of Irina Lucidi and Mathias Schepp–a story that has fascinated the world ever since the couple’s children disappeared without a trace in January of 2011–Concita De Gregorio has created a powerful and absorbing narrative that evokes the full spectrum of emotion and existence for this mother mercilessly deprived of her children. She makes the illuminating point that we have no word for such a person: a woman who has lost her husband is a widow; a child who has lost his parents is an orphan, but what do we call a parent who has lost a child? The magnitude of society’s inability to contend with Irina’s grief is just one of the themes touched upon here with grace and wisdom–in letters, monologues, lists, and exquisite descriptions of what it’s like to lose those most dear to you, and against all odds to find a new mooring.

PUBLISHERS: Spain: Anagrama

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“The only truly great Italian writer to emerge in the twenty-first century.” Corriere della Sera

ERRI DE LUCA La parola contraria / is a bestselling Italian novelist, translator, A Dissenting Word and poet. He has been called by critic Giorgio De Rienzo of Corriere della Sera “I am, and I will remain, even if convicted, a witness to sabotage. “the writer of the decade.” Namely: to the hampering, obstructing, and impeding of the freedom to dissent.”

Renowned Italian author Erri De Luca takes on the controversial plans for a high-speed train line between Lyons and Turin and finds himself also defending free speech. In September of 2013, the firm of Lyon Turin Ferroviaire (LTF), builders of the high-speed train line between Turin and Lyon (the TAV), announced that they would press charges against Erri De Luca on the basis of statements made and published on the Italian websites of The Huffington Post and the Italian news agency ANSA. The claim charged De Luca with instigating the commission of sabotage and damage to the TAV’s construction site.

In this elegant and defiant essay, A Dissenting Word, De Luca defends his statements in the context of the history of free speech and the power of literature to “incite” all manner of behaviors, from the poetic to the revolutionary. “In the courtroom of the Turin tribunal on January 28, 2015,” writes De Luca, “freedom of speech will not be a matter of debate. Subservient speech is always free and welcome. The debate will turn on the freedom of dissenting speech, and there charges are pending.”

Non ora, non qui (1989) In nome della madre (2006) PUBLISHERS OF LA PAROLA Una nuvola come tappeto (1991) Almeno cinque (2008) CONTRARIA: Aceto arcobaleno (1992) Il peso della farfalla (2009) Catalonia: Sembra In alto a sinistra (1994) Il giorno prima della felicità (2009) France: Gallimard Alzaia (1997) E disse (2011) Germany: Tanja Graf Tu, mio (1998) Il torto del soldato (2012) Spain: Seix Barral Tre cavalli (1999) La doppia vita dei numeri (2012) Montedidio (2001) Storia di Irene (2013) Mestieri all’aria aperta (2004) I pesci non chiudono gli occhi (2011) Il contrario di uno (2003) La musica provata (2014) Solo andata (2005) 13

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La Resistenza perfetta is not only a historical essay, it’s also an intimate book where the Story becomes vivid and concrete. Il Manifesto

GIOVANNI DE LUNA La resistenza perfetta / has taught Contemporary History at The Perfect Resistance the University of Turin. His most recent books include: La passione e la ragione. It’s been decades now that the Italian Resistance has been under Il mestiere dello storico contemporaneo the constant scrutiny not only of historians but of journalists and (Bruno Mondadori 2004), Storia del commentators as well. And if at one time it was controversial Partito d’Azione (Utet 2006), Il corpo and electrifying to debate the myth of the partisans, the significance del nemico ucciso. Violenza e morte nella of the civil war, and the legacy of these warring factions, today the topic guerra contemporanea (Einaudi 2006), has become vulgate: an apocryphal undercurrent that’s all but taken for granted. To coincide with the 70th anniversary of Italy’s Liberation, and Una politica senza religione Giovanni De Luna wanted to restore focus to a picture of the (Einaudi 2013). With Feltrinelli he has Resistance that has long become blurred. And with exquisite effect, published Le ragioni di un decennio. he has chosen his story, his place, and his characters: a castle in 1969-1979. Militanza, violenza, sconfitta, Piedmont, a noble family that decides to help the partisans, and their memoria (2009) and La Repubblica del youngest daughter, Leletta d’Isola, who writes in her diary of the dolore (2011). terrible yet awe-inspiring months in which Communists and monarchists, aristocrats and peasants, all fought, died, and killed to save their homeland, their freedom, the future of an entire nation. These were the months in which–between the courtyard of Leletta’s family villa and the mountains that surround it–the very unity that gave rise to the myth of the Resistance was formed. Of course, this unity and its momentum was short-lived, and after 25 April 1945, everyone would go his own way. But for Leletta and many other Italians, it remains forever in the imagination “the perfect resistance”– far from an unattainable ideal, a concrete realization, capable of salvaging their nation. With peerless historical acumen, and the deft intertwining of personal and public dimensions with grand historiographical debate, De Luna gives us the most vivid portrait yet of a movement that was truly a struggle for freedom, a movement in which Italians from all backgrounds, classes, and political persuasions pledged their allegiance–in turn redeeming, through their commitment and often terrible sacrifices, a nation humiliated by Fascism and by war.

Le ragioni di un decennio (2009) La repubblica del dolore (2011)

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“The book unfolds memories as if a thriller.” La Stampa

“A lucid reflection on the horrors of Nazism and the concentration camps, but especially a work of profound excavation of memory and its repression.” Il Messaggero

LUCE D’ERAMO Deviazione / Deviation was born in 1925 in Reims to Italian Lucia is a young woman of middle-class origins–the daughter of the parents and died in Rome on March 6, Undersecretary of the Republic of Salò–who has lived in France and 2001. Her books include Nucleo Zero been much influenced, even from a distance, by the myths of Fascism (1981), Partiranno (1986), Ultima Luna with which she has grown up. Not only that, she now believes that (1993), Una strana fortuna (1997) and among the lies circulating about Nazi-Fascism there is also that of L’opera di Ignazio Silone (1971). In 1999 the cruelty of the labor camps. She decides to see for herself what is she published Io sono un’aliena (“I am happening, and goes, as a volunteer, to the camps, certain that her an alien”), a “conversation” in which she journey will enable her to refute the “slander” against the treatment retraces the steps of her existential and of those who “work” on behalf of Hitler’s great Reich. Thus begins intellectual path. Lucia’s descent into hell, a violent and complex experience of a horror that consumes her existence and even becomes a sort of norm. Through Lucia’s eyes, D’Eramo traces a formative path not unlike her own–an adventure of consciousness, testimony, and ultimately a cry of alarm.

First published in Italy in 1979, Deviation is a seminal work in Holocaust literature–a story that confronts evil head-on, and that with its highly disciplined structure and language explores a fate still incomplete, still vulnerable to the violent liberation of any sudden “deviation.”

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“Elvira Dones explores a remote, archaic and mysterious world.” Avvenire

“Dones’s writing evokes a particular time and place with an efficiency that is rare these days.” La Repubblica

ELVIRA DONES Vergine giurata / Sworn Virgin (Durazzo, 1960) is a writer, journalist, and Hana abandons her studies at the University of Tirana–studies that screenwriter. After spending many years she has only just begun, full of curiosity and enthusiasm–in order to in Switzerland she now lives in the United return to the Northern Albanian mountains, where her uncle, who States. Her books include Senza bagagli raised her after the death of her parents, is now a sick widower. This (Besa, 1998), Sole bruciato (Feltrinelli, return represents an act of love and gratitude that becomes a 2001), Bianco giorno offeso (Interlinea, nightmarish sacrifice when Hana, who refuses to accept an arranged 2004), I mari ovunque (Interlinea, 2007) marriage that would allow her uncle to die in peace but also force and Piccola guerra perfetta (Einaudi, her to give up her independence, decides the only way out is to 2011). Sworn Virgin was published by become a “sworn virgin:” a woman who, in accordance with Albanian Feltrinelli in 2007 and has been published law, declares her intention to live as a man and thus deny her in English with an introduction by Ismail femininity. The family’s honor is safe; her uncle is proud of her and Kadare. A film based on the book has been at last feels free to surrender to the disease that devours him. But Hana is a passionate and sensitive woman who, in Tirana, had fallen made by Laura Bispuri, starring Alba in love. Now, the gloomy solitude of the cold, harsh mountains Rohrwacher, presented at the Berlin Film threatens to destroy her soul–unless her cousin Lila, who emigrated Festival in 2015. many years ago to America, can convince her to break her oath.

Sworn Virgin is the story of an Albanian woman who sacrifices her femininity to be free and then sacrifices her honor to return to being a woman–without ever renouncing her heart.

Sole bruciato (2001) PUBLISHERS OF VERGINE GIURATA: UK & USA: And Other Stories.

Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 16 29/09/15 11.27 TITO FARACI

“A beautiful metropolitan story, the parable of a man who lost and regained life.” La Repubblica

“Faraci immerses himself in an invisible world with a light and intelligent touch.” Corriere della Sera 9VZZLSSH9HZ\SV

TITO FARACI La vita in generale / Life in General was born in Gallarate in 1965. He is General Mario Castelli was the head of a company; he’s also known one of the most important Italian comic- love and generally lived a fulfilling life. Now, he has nothing. It was book artists and has created storylines a fast descent, unstoppable, triggered by an unforeseen betrayal. for “Mickey Mouse,” “Dylan Dog,” “Tex,” After his time in prison, descending even further was easier than “Diabolik,” and “Magic Wind,” among he could have imagined. He now lives in dark corners with the other others. Faraci was also one of the first nocturnal creatures of the world: homeless, desperate vagabonds. Italian writers to work with American Yet even there the men and women with whom he shares this new characters such as Spider-Man, Daredevil, destitute status recognize the natural authority of someone who and Captain America. For Disney he knows the ropes. As a result, word gets around, and soon Mario adapted Novecento by Alessandro Baricco, is trailed by young Rita, a woman who doesn’t want her father’s rendering the novella’s main protagonist company to be absorbed by a French-Chinese conglomerate and to have more than a passing resemblance knows the General has the skills to help her. Shrewd and beautiful, Rita wins Mario Castelli’s trust, and his to Goofy. trajectory in life returns to the world of sharks, unscrupulous managers, and cold manipulators that he knows so well. These are new and old characters, faces that have become masks and masks that hide yet more masks. But it’s also an opportunity to unleash the good war of redemption, the miracle that is justice. Frank Capra, “Mickey Mouse,” Totò, and The Count of Monte Cristo– there is a little of each of these in Tito Faraci’s exquisite first novel: a whirling social comedy with the vivid power of both comic books and popular literature.

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“A frank and thorough investigation.” Il Fatto Quotidiano

JOHN FOOT, La ‘Repubblica dei matti’ / a professor of contemporary Italian A ‘Republic of Fools’ history, has taught in the Italian Department at University College London The Franco Basaglia movement profoundly changed the nature of and currently teaches at the University of Italian psychiatry and beyond. An enormous amount of this radical Bristol. His works published in English transformation depended on the work and figure of Basaglia, but and Italian include: Il boom dal basso: much has also descended from the cultural atmosphere of his time, famiglia, trasformazione sociale, lavoro, including a new sensibility for civil rights at the international level. tempo libero e sviluppo alla Bovisa e Basaglia’s experience in the state mental asylum at Gorizia, where he became director in 1961, was the starting point of this revolution. alla Comasina (Milano, 1950-1970) The success of such books as What is Psychiatry? and The Denied (Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Institution ushered the debate out of the closed doors of mental 1997), Milano dopo il miracolo. Biografia institutions and has given rise to a rich cultural field, including di una città (Feltrinelli, 2003), Fratture documentaries such as The Gardens of Abel, by Sergio Zavoli, and d’Italia (Rizzoli, 2009), Calcio. 1898-2010. books such as Dying of Class, by Carla Cerati and Gianni Berengo Storia dello sport che ha fatto l’Italia (Bur, Gardin. It forged the path to new experiments beyond the reach of 2010), and Pedalare! La grande avventura the asylum and launched the polycentric phase of the radical del ciclismo italiano (Rizzoli, 2011). psychiatric movement. In Trieste, Basaglia succeeded in bringing together the asylum and the city, with the support of artists and intellectuals. Since then his students and collaborators have engaged in hospitals around Italy to export the Basaglia model, adapted by each inheritor in his or her own way. Two years before his death, Basaglia finally saw the passing of the law that took his name: Legge Basaglia, or Law 180, also known as the Italian Mental Health Act of 1978, which signified a large reform of the Italian psychiatric system, including the closing down of all psychiatric hospitals and their gradual replacement with a range of community-based services and acute in-patient care, thus revolutionizing the country’s attitude toward, and strategy for dealing with, mental illness.

Milano dopo il miracolo (2003) PUBLISHERS OF LA ‘REPUBBLICA DEI MATTI’: Korea: Munhakdongne UK & USA: Verso

Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 18 29/09/15 11.27 MIMMO FRANZINELLI, NICOLA GRAZIANO

“The reconstruction of a dramatic chapter in postwar Italian history.” Il Piccolo

“A look at a little-known chapter of the troubled post-war and post-resistance period.” Il Mattino

MIMMO FRANZINELLI, Un’odissea partigiana: dalla a scholar of Fascism and the Italian Resistenza al manicomio / The Republic, has published with Feltrinelli: La Provincia e l’Impero, with Alessandro Partisan Odyssey: From The Giacone (2011); Delatori (UE 2012); Il Giro d’Italia (2013); and, as part of Resistance to the Asylum the Fondazione Feltrinelli annals, Il riformismo alla prova. Il primo governo Healthy partisans locked up in a mental hospital: this is a true story, a folly of contemporary Italian history, that until now has gone Moro, with A. Giacone (2013). www. unexplored. Just before the liberation of Italy from Nazi occupation mimmofranzinelli.it. during World War II, the magistracy had to deal with hundreds of former partisans accused of serious offenses committed during the NICOLA GRAZIANO, clandestine struggle and its aftermath. Their charges mostly had to magistrate of the Naples Tribunal, is do with “rough justice” against those suspected of espionage: also the author and editor of numerous participants in the repressive Fascist apparatus or otherwise publications on judicial law and antagonistic to the patriotic cause. For several dozen of the administration, as well as a regular writer defendants, the strategy–imposed by Lelio Basso, Umberto Terracini, for various culture journals and in-depth and other left-wing lawyers–aimed to mitigate the partisans’ public discussions such as “Guida al punishment through their acknowledgement of partial insanity. Diritto” e “Dirittoitalia.” Nicola lives in Then, in the summer of 1946, when the Togliatti amnesty pardoned a flood of Fascists convicted or awaiting trial, the partisans, too, Aversa, the setting for the events narrated benefited from the measure–excluding, that is, those in asylum in the present volume; it is also a place detention. Thus former partisans who were perfectly sane had to forever embattled in the campaign for adapt to life in detention facilities where inmates had no rights and fundamental human rights. were subjected to daily harassment. In some cases the asylum machine undermined the mental health of the former partisans and delivered them prematurely to the grave. Now, their story at last returns to light, owing to this analysis of unpublished documents held at the Judicial Psychiatric Hospital in Aversa: documents that attest to obscure events in the struggle for liberation and the civil war, handled by the judiciary with extreme severity and in turn covered up by the veil of oblivion, well into the Cold War era.

Il Giro d’Italia (2013) Delatori (2012)

Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 19 29/09/15 11.27 NICOLA GARDINI 7HVSV7VSaLSSH

NICOLA GARDINI La vita non vissuta / is the author of the novels Così ti ricordi The Life Not Lived di me (Sironi 2003), Lo sconosciuto (Sironi 2007 and Beat 2012), Le parole In the eyes of others, and perhaps even his own, Valerio is a forty- perdute di Amelia Lynd (Feltrinelli year-old success story: a respected Latin professor with a nice house, 2012; winner of the Viareggio Prize and a comfortable existence, a loving wife and a child. Yet in a moment, the Zerilli Marimò-City of Rome Prize) all this loses its meaning, thanks to an enounter with Paul, a young and Fauci (Feltrinelli 2013). He has also and talented painter and a passionate lover. Paul is as fascinating as published the memoir I baroni (Feltrinelli he is insecure, and it is for him that Valerio suddenly decides to turn the page. 2009 and 2012); the e-book novella Girl Finally, with Paul, Valerio will start over in life, and live the (Feltrinelli 2013); the essay collections existence that ever since school he has dreamed of living. Then, Com’è fatta una poesia (Sironi 2007), suddenly, a phone call shatters the illusion: Paul learns he is HIV- Rinascimento (Einaudi 2010), Per una positive. What follows is Valerio’s own hurried trip to a clinic for a biblioteca indispensabile (Einaudi 2011), blood test, confirmation that he too has the infection, and discovery and Lacuna (2014); as well as various of the irremediable. Now in just a few hours this new love, waited for poetry collections including La primavera forever, becomes a vortex of ghosts, fears, and unutterable doubts. (in Nuovi Poeti Italiani 4, Einaudi 1995), Still, in a tireless effort toward comprehension, Valerio shakes off his Atlas (Crocetti 1998), Le nuvole (Crocetti prejudices and the illness’s maddening falsehoods and clichés, coming 2007), Le parti dell’amore (sedizioni ever closer to the real meaning of life, of love. 2010), Stamattina (Ladolfi 2014), The Life Not Lived is an intense and devastating novel, a novel that with the profundity of classics contemplates great suffering, the and Tradurre è un bacio (Ladolfi 2015). dissolution of identity, good and bad fortune, guilt, and desire. It also In addition to contributing to Corriere explores, with astonishing effect, the power of words, especially those della Sera, The Times Literary we use toward the end of our path in this world. Supplement, and the Sunday supplement of Sole 24 Ore, Gardini is a professor of Italian and comparative literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Keble College.

Fauci (2013) Le parole perdute di Amelia Lyndt (2012) I baroni (2009)

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“To many readers Il gattopardo is the greatest Italian novel of the twentieth century, perhaps the greatest ever, and uniquely relevant to modern Italy.” The Economist

“An amazing meditation on time. The most perfect novelized account not just of something that happened a long time ago, but also of what time does to us, when you feel it travelling through our lives. Very moving.” Simon Schama

GIUSEPPE TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA Il gattopardo / The Leopard Duke of Palma and Prince of Lampedusa, was born in Palermo, Sicily in 1896. “For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by Other than three articles that appeared ourselves, none that we could call our own. This violence of landscape, in an obscure Italian journal in 1926-27, this cruelty of climate, this continual tension in everything, and even Lampedusa was unpublished in his own these monuments of the past, magnificent yet incomprehensible lifetime. He began Il gattopardo, his only because not built by us and yet standing round us like lovely mute novel, in1954, at the age of 58. When ghosts; all those rulers who landed by main force from every direction he died at the age of 61, the completed who were at once obeyed, soon detested, and always misunderstood, manuscript for Il gattopardo had received their only expressions works of art we couldn’t understand and taxes only rejections from publishers. which we understood only too well and which they spent elsewhere: all these things have formed our character, which is thus conditioned by events outside our control as well as by a terrifying insularity of mind.”

Elegiac, bittersweet and profoundly moving, Il gattopardo chronicles the turbulent transformation of the Risorgimento, the period of Italian Unification. The waning feudal authority of the elegant and stately Prince of Salina is pitted against the materialistic cunning of Don Calogero, in Lampedusa’s magnificent memorial to a dying age.

“Sicily 1860: Prince Fabrizio has always lived contentedly with the ‘lovely mute ghosts’ of the past. But now, with the impending unification with Italy and his nephew’s undesirable marriage, he fears ruin. This is a beautiful meditation on change, with Sicily and its golden landscape in the starring role. Brilliant.” The Observer

“One of the great lonely books.” E. M. Forster

Racconti (1961) PUBLISHERS OF IL GATTOPARDO: Portugal: Dom Quixote Brazil: Companhia das Letras Romania: Humanitas Catalonia: Raval Slovenia: Mladinska Knjiga Croatia: Vukovic & Runjic Slovakia: Ikar Denmark: Gyldendal Spain: Alianza, Edhasa France: Seuil Sweden: Bonnier Germany: Piper Turkey: Can Yalinari Greece: Harlenic Hellas UK: Harvill Secker Japan: Sakuhinsha US: Pantheon Korea: Munhakdongne Netherlands: Athenaeum Poland: Czuly Barbarzynca

Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 21 29/09/15 11.27 ALESSANDRO LEOGRANDE ,K]PUH4L[H

ALESSANDRO LEOGRANDE La frontiera / The Frontier was born in Taranto in 1977. He is Deputy Editor of the monthly Lo straniero The world we find ourselves living in is bisected by an open wound: a threshold, a border, the frontier that separates and at the same and writes for many newspapers about time unites North and South. And while we in the former see migration, new Mafias, and culture. ourselves as democratic, liberal, and civilized, simultaneously we He has published many books, including characterize the South as poor, war-torn, minimally civilized, Uomini e caporali and Il naufragio. and not democratic at all. It is precisely at this threshold, this fine dividing line, that the Great Game of the contemporary world is being played. In some places the frontier coincides with the sea, or with territorial boundaries, some of which are wide open, others occupied and fiercely protected. And perhaps more than the inhabitants of any other nation, Italians are present at this frontier every day: they are part of it, it is the essence of their cultural and geographic existence, and therefore it’s on their table that the rest of the world plays its cards. In The Frontier, Alessandro Leogrande gives voice to the people approaching and defending the threshhold between North and South, to the agents and victims of this epic of our time, to those fighting to live, to those who die. He boards the ships of Mare Nostrum and gives voices to lives otherwise sunk to the seabed; he gives voices to the traffickers and baby-smugglers, to the survivors of shipwrecks, to those who have seen the carnage on Lampedusa, to those living similar nightmares along the Greek border, to Alba Dorata and the people of Patras, to those who have seen Libya explode into a thousand pieces. From the shores of Africa to the violence of the Roman suburbs, Leogrande gives voice to the anonymous black hole into which our collective conscience, and the rights of humanity, sink deeper every day. Tying all this together is Saleh, an Iraqi-Kurd who despises the legacy of Saddam, and the ambitions of ISIS, and who defies his existence as as outcast to become an accomplice and a ferryman.

Il naufragio (2011)

Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 22 29/09/15 11.27 MAURO MAGATTI, CHIARA GIACCARDI

MAURO MAGATTI Generativi di tutto il mondo, unitevi! / (1960) teaches Sociology at the Università Generatives of the World, Unite! Cattolica in Milan and for years has studied the relationship between Freedom in conditions of freedom is different from freedom in economics and society. He directs the conditions of constraint. This is the problem that challenges today’s research center Arc: the Centre for the “society of the free.” It’s true, we are a liberated people. But Anthropology of Religion and Cultural meanwhile we have become prisoners of power: the power of the great Change. In addition to numerous articles technological and economic apparatuses and the power of the published in Italian and international enormous (and ever increasing) will of subjectivity. In a sense, we are all equal, and by now disinhibited, perpetually searching and open to scientific journals, his books include: everything. But in the end transforming desire into pleasure is I nuovi ceti popolari. Chi ha preso il enslaving us to performance. It’s driving us to deny reality, posto della classe operaia? (with Mario perception, and those other than ourselves. And in this way we are de Benedittis, Feltrinelli 2006), Libertà becoming violent, unhappy, and depressed. Our lives are full of immaginaria. Le illusioni del capitalismo things yet utterly empty. And in this sense, the material one, we are tecno-nichilista (Feltrinelli 2009), La unequal. grande contrazione. I fallimenti della But there also exists a different kind of freedom: “generative libertà e le vie del suo riscatto (Feltrinelli freedom.” Freedom that chases hope and consciously acknowledges 2012), and Una nuova prosperità. Quattro the real world and our cohabitants. A generating force that is organic vie per una crescita integrale (with Laura and symbolic. As a basic anthropological movement that runs counter Gherardi, Feltrinelli 2014). to consumption, generativity is manifested in art, cooperative work, voluntary work, certain kinds of entrepreneurship, and crafts. It’s realized in four stages: desire, gestation, cultivation, and, finally, CHIARA GIACCARDI letting go. These are actions that rejuvenate us as new and capable (1959) teaches Sociology and Anthropology individuals; in other words, generativity is a new trope of freedom of Media at the Università Cattolica in with the power to liberate us from ourselves. It is also a means by Milan. Her previous publications include which we can reform our model of development and renew our spirit two co-authored with Mauro Magatti: La of democracy–by overcoming the “individualism” of the consumer globalizzazione non è un destino (Laterza society and forging a new commonwealth: one that generates. 2001) and L’io globale. Dinamiche della socialità contemporanea (Laterza 2003).

Una nuova prosperità (2014) La grande contrazione (2012) Libertà immaginaria (2009) I nuovi ceti popolari (2006)

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“Maurizio Maggiani confirms himself as a unique presence among Italian writers, especially for the generosity of his narrative.” La Repubblica

“Maggiani has written a wonderfully poignant novel, full of ironic nostalgia for an Italy teeming with real founders but never really founded.” Il Sole 24 Ore 4VYLUV*HYIVUL

MAURIZIO MAGGIANI Il Romanzo della nazione / (born in Castelnuovo Magra, La Spezia, A Nation’s Romance in 1951) is the author of several books published by Feltrinelli: màuri màuri With A Nation’s Romance Maurizio Maggiani returns to architecture (1989 and 1996), Vi ho già tutti sognato of narrative: to stories and history, to the nucleus of imagination. una volta (1990), Felice alla guerra (1992), Storyteller par excellence, immersed in a popular oral culture, Il coraggio del pettirosso (1995, winner Maggiani is a unique figure in the panorama of contemporary Italian of the Viareggio Rèpaci and Campiello literature. This is a novel of utopia, of hope: of how it moves us, how Prizes), La regina disadorna (1998, winner we lose it, how we miss it, how we continue to see it in our lives. We are stories. We are the stories to which we belong, the stories of the Alassio and Stresa Prizes), È stata we have heard. And Maggiani listens to these stories. He listens to una vertigine (2002, winner of the Scrivere the river of voices that rises in the song of the nation that could have per amore Prize and a finalist for the been, but isn’t. He hears, and recounts, the voices of a people whose Chiara Prize), Il viaggiatore notturno stories would otherwise have flowed back into the immateriality (2005, winner of the Ernest Hemingway, of memory. Parco della Maiella, and Strega Prizes), We hear the story of a mother and a father who will reach the end and Mi sono perso a Genova. Una guida of their lives carrying with them a world of very concrete certainties: (2007). Maggiani is also the creator of taking care their business, the home, their family relationships. the audio/book projects Storia della We are reminded of their struggle to put bread on the table and to meraviglia. 12 canzoni e 3 monologhi stay in touch with political dreams. In this profound novel – set in (with Gian Piero Alloisio, 2008), the province of La Spezia from the second half of the 1800s onwards, when Cavour decided the city’s picturesque bay, an inspiration to Meccanica celeste (2010), and I figli della Byron, Shelly, and D.H. Lawrence, should become a powerful naval Repubblica. Un’invettiva (2014), as well port – Maggiani insinuates himself into the apparently ordinary as the e-book Zafferano (Zoom, 2011). lives of his characters to tell the story of how engineers and laborers, physicians and sailors, convicts and revolutionaries, gunmen and metal casters, inventors and prophets, cooks and tailors all joined the effort to build a major military arsena – and, they hoped, a new national identity. We all belong to this quasi-mythical world of Maggiani’s – all, to a degree, the founders of our own nations. Whether it is the nation we have in mind for ourselves and our children remains to be seen.

Il coraggio del pettirosso (1995) Màuri màuri (1996) La regina disadorna (2000) È stata una vertigine (2002) Il viaggiatore notturno (2005) Mi sono perso a Genova (2007) Storia della meraviglia (2008) Meccanica celeste (2010) I figli della repubblica (2014)

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“A wonderful reconstruction of the tortuous steps that led to the publication of Doctor Zhivago for the first time in the world.” Giuseppe Berta, l’Espresso

“A tour de force of literary detection worthy of a scholarly Sherlock Holmes.” The New York Review of Books

PAOLO MANCOSU Inside the Zhivago Storm is Professor of Philosophy and Doctor Zhivago, the novel by Boris Pasternak first published in departmental director at the University Italian by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli and his eponymous publishing of California at Berkeley where he teaches house in November 1957, is an acknowledged masterpiece of world logic and the philosophy of mathematics. literature that in 1958 earned its author the Nobel Prize. In a period His interests lie in the philosophy of when east and west were divided by the Cold War, the events mathematics and its history, in philosophy surrounding the publication of Doctor Zhivago make for one of the of logic, and in mathematical logic. His most fascinating stories of the twentieth century, featuring primarily written work is currently focused upon Boris Pasternak and Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, but involving states, the philosophy of mathematical practice, governments, political parties, intelligence agencies and publishers including mathematical explanation, across the world. mathematical style, diagrammatic Inside the Zhivago Storm recounts with narrative verve and reasoning and visualization in historical rigor the background to this great Russian novel’s first mathematics, and purity of methods. In publication in Italy, together with its reception and the editions this area, he has recently published The that followed both in Russian and in other western languages; this Philosophy of Mathematical Practice volume also contains, published for the first time, the complete (OUP, 2008). He has also recently correspondence between Giangiacomo Feltrinelli and Boris completed a book on 20th-century Pasternak from 1956 to 1960, together with a series of related letters explorations of the foundations of and documents from the time that complement it. Given access to the mathematics entitled The Adventure archives at the Fondazione Feltrinelli, together with research in of Reason (OUP, 2010). In his spare time various other public and private archives in Europe, Russia and he plays the bandoneon. America, Mancosu reconstructs the relationship between Boris Pasternak and Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, the history of the translation into Italian, the pressures placed both on the writer by the Soviet government to have the novel published for the first time in the Soviet Union, and on Giangiacomo Feltrinelli by the Italian Communist Party, which Feltrinelli was an active member of at the time, to obstruct its publication in Italy. All this is set against a meticulous historical reconstruction of the period.

Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 25 29/09/15 11.27 LIVIA MANERA SAMBUY

“Don’t Write About Me is a delightful book of meetings and separations.” Corriere della Sera

“A collection of stories from life, born from the contradiction of the spoken and the unspoken, and from meetings with eight figures of North American literature.” Il Sole 24 Ore

LIVIA MANERA SAMBUY Non scrivere di me / is a literary journalist who writes Don’t Write About Me for Corriere della Sera. She has lived in Milan and New York and currently I forbid you to write about me, said Philip Roth. For Livia Manera divides her time between Paris and Sambuy this should have been an injunction, but instead it serves as Tuscany. She has made two documentary an incitement to break down the barrier that stands between human films about Philip Roth, and Philip Roth: understanding and literary invention–a stimulus of personal memory An American Story was published by and of the consciousness left behind by readings and fragments that Feltrinelli’s “Real Cinema” imprint cause life and literature to intertwine. In Don’t Write About Me, Manera recounts intimate stories of her encounters with several in 2013. American writers: stories of complicity, friendship, craftsmanship, familiarity, and love. She writes about the New York intellectuals who remain, the Paris of those long gone, the colors of Maine and the expanse of the Midwest. We glimpse isolated country residences, impeccable apartments, the snow-covered streets of Manhattan, the spartan offices of famous editors, refined homes and desolate studios, hospital rooms, French cafés and fast food at the side of a highway. All this unfolds in a graceful first-person narrative that acts as both probe and mirror, mole and light, revealing the world of American literature to be a far from homogenous scene with its cacophany of strategies, doubts, visions, theories, and wisdom. Through Manera’s sharp lens we meet, with an unprecedented transparency: Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Paula Fox, Judith Thurman, David Foster Wallace, Joseph Mitchell, Mavis Gallant, and James Purdy. We also meet anew Raymond Carver, Mordecai Richler, and Karen Blixen. Manera captures them all with her acute observations of a significant gesture here, a passionate confidence there, sometimes even just the majesty of silence. With her, we feel the privilege and honor of each rapport, along with the sensation of it becoming a kind of lifeline to the past, a fulfilment of destiny.

Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 26 29/09/15 11.27 MARIO MIELI

MARIO MIELI Elementi di critica omosessuale / (1952-1983) was a brilliant and Homosexuality and Liberation: groundbreaking gay rights activist as well as the author of various narrative, poetic, Elements of a Gay Critique and political works. Until his premature death by asphyxiation at the age of thirty, Mario Mieli was a leading figure in Europe’s gay rights campaign of the nineteen-seventies and early eighties. He first became involved in the movement through London’s Gay Liberation Front, and on his return to Italy in 1972 helped to organize the Fronte Unitario Omosesssuale Rivoluzionario Italiano (Italian Revolutionary Homosexual United Front), whose acronym FUORI! means “Out!”. Mieli was both an activist and a theoretician, and the appearance in 1977 of his groundbreaking Elementi di critica omosessuale represented a revolution in the literature of gay studies in Italy. In the book, Mieli proposes a utopian model for our time, based on the idea that the liberation of eros in all its neglected and repressed forms is the only serious antidote to the dominance of “the norm” and the oppressiveness of capitalism. He advocates freeing ourselves from our tyrannized psyches and allowing the transsexuality buried in each of us to emerge. “Hermaphroditism,” he writes, “is profound and original to each individual.”

In short, Mieli made his name as a forerunner of many subsequent studies and reflections that, since his short lifetime, have brought to the fore newly productive discussions of our concepts of gender, orientation, and sexual identity.

Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 27 29/09/15 11.27 BORIS PASTERNAK

“Doctor Zhivago belongs to that small group of novels by which all others are ultimately judged.” Frank Kermode, Spectator “An astonishing novel… for the richness of “A single act of defiance and genius.” Isaiah Berlin, Sunday Times

BORIS PASTERNAK Il Dottor Živago / Doctor Zhivago was born in Moscow in 1890 and after One of the greatest love stories ever told, banned in the Soviet Union briefly training as a composer resolved to until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a be a writer. He published a large number poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking of collections of poetry, written under his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural the burden of Soviet Russia’s stringent Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the censorship, before his most famous work, battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the tender Doctor Zhivago, was published in the and beautiful nurse Lara. West – remarkably, daringly, brilliantly – by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in 1958. “The best way to understand Pasternak’s achievement in Doctor Pasternak died in 1960. Zhivago is to see it in terms of this great Russian literary tradition, as a fairy tale, not so much of good and evil as of opposing forces and needs in human destiny and history that can never be reconciled… Zhivago is a figure who embodies the principle of life itself, the principle that contradicts every abstraction of revolutionary politics.” John Bayley

“From his schooldays, Pasternak tells us, Yury Zhivago had dreamed of writing ‘a book of impressions of life in which he would conceal, like sticks of dynamite, the most striking things he had seen so far.’ Doctor Zhivago was that book. It was packed with dynamite and, as Pasternak expected, it blew up in his face.” Ann Pasternak Slater

Autobiografia (1958) PUBLISHERS OF IL DOTTOR ZIVAGO: Portugal: Sextante Brazil: Editora Bestseller India (Malayam): Sahitya Bulgaria: Trud Israel: Keter Catalonia: Grup 62 Recalcati: Odile Jacob Czech Republic: Euromedia Romania: Polirom Finland: Tammi Spain: Galaxia Gutenberg France: Gallimard Sweden: Bonniers Germany: Fischer Turkey: Yapi Kredi Hungary: Partvonal UK: Harvill Secker Montenegro: Nova Knijga US: Pantheon 28 Netherlands: Oorschot

Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 28 29/09/15 11.27 DANIEL PENNAC & FABIO GAMBARO

DANIEL PENNAC L’amico scrittore / The Writer Friend is a former French teacher at a high The Writer Friend is an exquisite book in the form of an interview school in Paris, an eclectic novelist, a with the celebrated French writer Daniel Pennac. It traces his playwright and monologuist, and a comic writing career from the early noir series starring professional book writer. He is the creator of Benjamin scapegoat Benjamin Malaussène all the way up to Journal d’un Malaussène, a professional scapegoat corps, including Comme un roman, Le Dictateur et le Hamac, and and the protagonist of many novels of Chagrin d’école. An illuminating foray into the mental and physical extraordinary international success. workshop of this extremely popular writer, the book navigates Pennac won the International Grinzane Pennac’s memories and reflections on the genesis and characters of Cavour Prize in 2002 and in 2005 was his works, as well as on the writer’s craft and on language, theater, awarded France’s Legion of Honour for reading, school, culture, family, politics, and Europe. In addition, in Arts and Literature. response to the famous “Ten Inalienable Rights of the Reader,” Pennac proposes the corresponding rights of a writer, beginning with the most fundamental of entitlements: freedom. FABIO GAMBARO born in Milan, has lived in Paris for many years. He is a cultural journalist and an editorial consultant who writes for La Repubblicca and Le Monde. Gambaro is also the author of several essays and books of interviews and has known Daniel Pennac for more than twenty years.

Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 29 29/09/15 11.27 FEDERICO RAMPINI

“An extraordinary documentary of the New Economy.” La Repubblica 3LVUHYKV*tUKHTV

FEDERICO RAMPINI, Rete padrona / Amazon, Google and a New York-based correspondent for Apple - The Dark Side of the Digital La Repubblica, made his debut as a journalist in 1979, writing for Rinascita. Revolution As Vice-Director of “Sole 24 Ore,” he was a columnist and correspondent sent “I moved to San Francisco in 2000 to live in the heart of Silicon Valley to Paris, Brussels, San Francisco, and during the first Internet revolution. Now we are back in New York and Beijing. He has taught at the Universities I feel vertiginous–a sense of disquiet. The speed of the digital change of Berkeley and Shanghai and at Bocconi was faster than we expected and now the Internet penetrates every corner of our lives: work, leisure, the organization of political debate University in Milan. He is the author and social protest, even our social relations and romantic affections. of numerous works, including: Il secolo But the tyrant has thrown off its mask. Its daily machinations are cinese (2005), L’impero di Cindia (2007), very different from the visions of the idealist libertarians who Slow Economy (2009), Alla mia sinistra projected a new world of knowledge and opportunities uniquitously (2011), “Non ci possiamo più permettere available. The new Masters of the Universe are called Apple and uno Stato sociale.” Falso! (2012), Voi avete Google, Facebook and Amazon, and Twitter. Alongside them is the gli orologi, noi abbiamo il tempo (2012), National Security Agency: Big Brother of the digital age. And then and Banchieri (2013). He has also written there are the authoritarian regimes, including China and Russia, who and staged two theatrical productions: have learned to master the technologies themselves and now Occidente estremo.Vi racconto il nostro manipulate the Internet’s very nature. Let me be clear: none of us futuro and All You Need Is Love. really wants to go back. But the techno-totalitarianism that continues to make its advances is neither neutral nor innocent. With this book I L’economia spiegata con i Beatles. invite you to travel with me into the tyrannical medium of the Internet. It will be a journey back in time, to compare the more generous hopes and plans of twenty years ago with the priorities that shape the real technological world of today. It is a journey through the places and landscapes of California, where I lived for a long time, and which I find evermore fascinating–but which is also in the grip of a fierce social gap between the digital elite and the rest of society. It is a journey among the characters who have dominated this era, from Bill Gates to Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, and among the many other lesser-known prophets and visionaries, already planning the next phases of innovation.” – Federico Rampini

Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 30 29/09/15 11.27 ERMANNO REA

“A novel that caused a sensation with its biting account of the Italian Communist Party in Naples.” Corriere della Sera

“One of Rea’s major successes, a beautiful book.” Il Fatto Quotidiano

ERMANNO REA Mistero napoletano / was born in Naples in 1927 and lives in A Neapolitan Mystery Rome. He worked for much of his life as a journalist, and is the author of several Employing the tools of literature’s greatest storytellers, Ermanno Rea highly regarded novels, including Fuochi conducts–in diary form–an investigation into the reasons behind the fiammanti a un’hora di notte which won suicide of Francesca Spada, a music critic and cultural journalist of the Premio Campiello in 1999. Feltrinelli Unità. The setting of the story is a Naples torn asunder by the Cold will be re-issuing his entire backlist, War. The suicide’s investigation is made difficult by the remoteness of together with Il sorriso di Don Giovanni, events that occurred more than thirty years ago, at a time when one’s conscience was obsessively intertwined with politics. It was a in 2014. dramatic period as well for its inhabitants’ tangled existential motivations; for the uncertain fate of a city such as Naples, whose port was in fact controlled by the Americans; for the insecurities of a generation just emerged from war; and for the struggle with a Communist Party still firmly anchored in Stalinist identity. Gradually, with a concentric shape, Rea’s novel sheds light on the complexity of the facts that pushed a young reporter to this most extreme act. His history of a private investigation becomes the collective history of an entire political class: of a generation’s values, hopes, dreams, and disappointments. Winner of the 1996 Viareggio Prize, A Neapolitan Mystery is perhaps Rea’s most masterful work.

Winner of the Premio Viareggio 1996.

Il Po si racconta (1990) L’ultima lezione (1992) Mistero napoletano (1995) Fuochi fiammanti a un’hora di notte (1998) La dismissione (2002) Napoli ferrovia (2007) La fabbrica dell’obbedienza (2011) 1960. Io Reporter (2012) Il sorriso di Don Giovanni (2014) Il caso Piegari (2014)

Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 31 29/09/15 11.27 MASSIMO RECALCATI

“Recalcati’s take is straight forward with the more dogmatic psychoanalytic filters notably absent.” Il Piccolo

MASSIMO RECALCATI Le mani della madre / is an analyst and member of the A Mother’s Hands Association of Italian Lacanian Psychoanalysis. He is also the director A mother’s hands exist not only to care for and cuddle a child. Nor do of Italy’s Research Institute of Applied they exist merely to stifle or traumatize her children, as Psychoanalysis and in 2003 he founded psychoanalysis would have us believe in its attempt to explain the Jonas Onlus, a center of clinical so-called disorders of the soul. psychoanalysis for new symptoms. He writes for La Repubblica and teaches the Following his brilliant and epochal description of the figure of the father in Il complesso di Telemaco (The Telemachus Complex), psychopathology of eating behavior at the Massimo Recalcati here turns his attention to the mother. He begins, University of Pavia. He has published in fact, by debunking the simplified view of the maternal figure as numerous books that have been translated either a balm or a poison. The mother, according to Recalcati, is an into several languages, including Cosa ever-changing creature of many different possibilities, including–in reste del padre? (2011), Jacques Lacan: addition to being her partner’s collaborator in procreation–a wife, a desiderio, godimento e soggettivazione lover, a woman. (2012), Non è più come prima (2014), and L’ora di lezione (2014). With Feltrinelli he Using examples from his clinical experience as well as current has published Il complesso di Telemaco events, cinema, and literature including the Bible, Recalcati (2013) and also serves as the editor of the introduces us to a variety of maternal figures that in combination Eredi series (“Heirs”). help us to see what’s real about a mother, rather than what’s ideal. He reminds us never to forget that first and foremost a mother is a woman whose femininity is essential to her motherhood but also to her own survival. When a woman vanishes into motherhood, the entire family suffers and even risks catastrophe.

Il complesso di Telemaco (2013) PUBLISHERS: Francia: Odile Jacob Greece: Kelefthos Korea: Chaek-Se-Sangpub.co Spain: Anagrama

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VINCENZO RUGGIERO Perché i potenti delinquono / Why is a professor of Sociology and Director People in Power Commit Crimes of the Crime and Conflict Research Centre at Middlesex University in London. He has In this groundbreaking book, Vincenzo Ruggiero takes a brave new conducted research on behalf of various look at the nature of power, challenging the analyses already national and international agencies established by sociology and criminology. He rejects the classical including the European Commission theory that an individual performs a crime when the bond that ties and the United Nations. With Feltrinelli him to others is weakened–that the ideal of justice withers in the he has published I crimini dell’economia. desert of need. Ruggiero dismantles this pacifist notion of the social bond and makes the point that powerful people commit all sorts of Una lettura criminologica del pensiero crimes every day, despite their privileged status, despite the great economico (2013). wealth at their disposal, despite the vast network of relationships they enjoy. The crimes committed by powerful people are not, in fact, the last resort of those who are weak, but on the contrary brazen assertions of who is strong. Combining criminology and sociology with a wide range of other disciplinary wisdom from political science to literature, economics to philosophy, this book illuminates step by step the subtle web of strategies that allow people of power to exist simultaneously inside and outside the law, bending the public discourse towards justification of their own needs, and cultivating contexts in which their own purposes take the form of goals for one and for all. The book also teaches us to decipher the obscure face of a powerful person who is always, to a degree, irrational, unbridled, and anomic. In a word: criminal.

I crimini dell’economia (2013)

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“After reading Saviano, it becomes impossible to see Italy, and the global market, in the same way again.” The New York Times

“Saviano has an astonishing ability to write luminously yet subtly about terrible things.” Le Parisien

“A national hero.” Umberto Eco

ROBERTO SAVIANO Vieni via con me / was born in Naples in 1979. He is the Come Away With Me author of the international bestseller Gomorra which has sold over ten million Roberto Saviano’s fourth book is a portrait of contemporary Italy. copies and been translated into over fifty Employing a narrative style reminiscent of Gomorrah, Saviano tells languages worldwide. The film adaptation eight stories in eight chapters, compelling case studies that probe the of Gomorra was winner of most significant issues affecting Italy both in recent years and more the Grand Prix at the 2008 Cannes persistently since unification. Each of these stories explains with Film Festival. Saviano’s journalism has Saviano’s precocious authority how Italy works – and, in some cases, how it does not work. There are familiar problems: a general lack of been widely published, including in la understanding and appreciation of the value of national unity, of Repubblica, L’Espresso, the Washington what it means to be a single nation state; political mud-slinging and Post, The New York Times, El País, Die the incessant smears that have become an integral part of public life; Zeit, Expressen and Dagens Nyheter in the expansion of organised crime in Northern Italy; Sweden, and The Times in the UK. the never-ending rubbish crisis in Naples; these and other matters He has been living under police escort afflicting Italy are considered with an emotional intensity and clarity protection since October 2006, following of vision. But there are also stories which inspire hope, including threats received from the criminal that of Don Panizza, the priest who travelled from organisations that he had denounced. the North to assist disabled children in the South, finding himself In 2008 six Nobel Prize-winning authors fighting the Calabrian ‘ngrangheta once there; or those of Piergiorgio and intellectuals made a public statement Welby, euthanasia activist, and Piero Calamandrei, anti-fascist professor, poet and politician. of their support for Saviano, and in In November and December 2010 Roberto Saviano starred in a series November of the same year he was invited of four two-hour, interview-based television programs which focused by the Nobel Committee in Stockholm to on issues of contemporary importance, filmed at an undisclosed give a lecture on “Freedom of Speech and location surrounded by security. The show achieved more than eight Lawless Violence.” million viewers on its first airing, more than nine million on its second, and the ratings continued to grow after that – comfortably RAI 3’s biggest audience since its creation in 1979. Vieni via con me develops the themes broached in the television series, and – with over 500,000 copies in circulation in Italy – it is one of the most important portraits of modern Italy to emerge in recent years.

PUBLISHERS OF Greece: Patakis VIENI VIA CON ME: Norway: Aschehoug Albania: Botimet Dudaj Poland: Sonia Draga Brazil: Companhia das Letras Portugal: Grupo Leya Catalan: Empúries Slovakia: Kalligram Czech Republic: Paseka Slovenia: Mladinska Knija Denmark: Tiderne Skifter Spain: Anagrama Finland: WSOY Sweden: Brombergs France: Laffont UK: Penguin Germany: Hanser

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MICHELE SERRA Ognuno potrebbe / Everyone Could was born in Rome in 1954, but grew up Giulio Maria is the one in the photos who never does anything. He’s in Milan. He began writing at twenty the anachronistic son of elderly parents, a sociology researcher who and has never done anything else to is part of a study designed to interpret the exultant gestures that earn a living. As a journalist he cut his soccer players make. Giulio Maria lives in a Northern Italian town teeth at l’Unità in Milan, and has also that is artisanally minded, prosperous, and ultimately validated by worked with Panorama, L’Espresso, the consumer. It is a world of roundabouts, megastores, SUVs, and Epoca, Linus, la Repubblica and other social anonymity. Giulio Maria is in love with Agnes, the woman newspapers. In 1989 he founded the “in black and white,” and spends a lot of time with his friend Ricky, satirical weekly Cuore, which he ran until an exquisite example of reckless optimism. Giulio Maria lives with 1994. For Feltrinelli he has published two full awareness of his condition as “lost.” His father’s company (an collections of poetry (Poetastro in 1993 artisanal furniture-maker) certainly had meaning once upon a time: and Canzoni politiche in 2000), a novel the color and smell of the wood, its prodigious variety, the wisdom and patience required to make a useful and beautiful object all had value. (Il ragazzo mucca, 1997), two collections But this company is now a stopped clock, a kingdom fallen under a of short stories (Il nuovo che avanza in spell. How does one escape the “immobility of the misery of the 1989 and Cerimonie in 2002, which won present time”? Giulio Maria is lost in a world of lost, disoriented the Procida award), three collections of people. What to make of an evening in which a wild boar is found newspaper columns and opinion pieces dead in a roundabout, and a small crowd of onlookers forms to (Che tempo fa in 1999, Tutti i santi giorni contemplate the political and philosophical significance of its death? in 2006 and Breviario comico. A perpetua The crowd goes through the motions of a debate, but does not in fact memoria in 2008), a travel book (Tutti al come to any significant conclusion. Everyone talks on an Egophone mare, 1990) and a collection of articles (a.k.a. a smartphone), everyone takes pictures, everyone seems aping prominent political figures and terribly encumbered. So what? What if you were to put some space commentators (44 falsi, 1991). between yourself and others? Give yourself up to silence, a silence not filled with words? What if your starting-point was an action that is the least active of all actions? Michele Serra has written a novel that is a perfectly apt interpretation of the stalemate of our times. Towing the line between skepticism and cynicism, Everyone Could shows us with comic fragility the thirty-somethings who have lost their way, a disoriented generation in search of redemption.

Il nuovo che avanza (1990) PUBLISHERS OF GLI SDRAIATI: Tutti al mare (1990) Brazil: Objetiva Poetastro (1993) Catalonia: La Campana Il ragazzo mucca (1997) Che tempo fa (1999) France: Flammarion Canzoni politiche (2000) Germany: Diogenes Cerimonie (2002) Greece: Ikaros Tutti i santi giorni (2006) Netherlands: Lebowski Breviario comico (2008) Spain: Alfaguara Gli sdraiati (2013) 35

Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 35 29/09/15 11.27 VA NDA NA SHIVA 2HY[PRL`:OP]H

VANDANA SHIVA Chi nutrirà il mondo? / (Dehra Dunh, 1952) is one of the most Who Will Feed The World? authoritative voices in the world of ecology, sustainable development, and A hidden war destroys our planet every day. On the one hand, the construction of alternative social the agriculture of the multinationals, the expropriation of entire and economic models. A scientist regions of the globe, the merciless rain of pesticides and fertilizers, by training, Shiva has a degree in the monopoly of increasingly fragile and expensive GMOs, unspoken quantum physics and is also a radical abolition of entire chapters of the Charter of Human Rights. environmentalist, a consultant to On the other hand, the agriculture of smallholders, who cultivate their land all over the planet whilst respecting the ecosystem and numerous governments on ecological and aiding of the quiet richness of biodiversity. food-related issues, and has received many Who really will feed the world? The multinationals or the small prestigious awards, among them the Right farmers? For Vandana Shiva the answer is very clear. It will Livelihood Award (1993) and the City of not be the big brand names from the world of agri-commerce. Sydney Peace Award (2010). Her books It will be the myriad projects which are socially, economically, translated by Feltrinelli include Il mondo ecologically sustainable, now widespread throughout the world. sotto brevetto (2002), It will be the spontaneous agricultural resources that free from the Le guerre dell’acqua (2003), Fare pace strictures of monoculture and that restore a balance of nature and con la terra (2012) and, in the Feltrinelli biodiversity. “Kids” series, Storia dei semi (2013). Vandana Shiva gives us in these pages a unique manifesto, which condenses with unprecedented clarity and radicalism thirty years of research and courageous accomplishment in the field. A manifesto that will be published for the first time worldwide in Italy, the host country of the Expo whose theme is “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”.

PUBLISHERS OF CHI NUTRIRÀ IL MONDO: India: Natraj UK: ZED USA: North Atlantic

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“A stand-out novel: sincere, grotesque, with an extraordinary quality to the language.” Tuttolibri

“Tony Pagoda, the protagonist of Hanno tutti ragione, is a character that stays with you, lingering long in the mind.” L’Espresso

“An astonishing baroque first novel.” Le Monde

PAOLO SORRENTINO Hanno tutti ragione / is an internationally regarded director Everybody’s Right and screenwriter, best known for his films One Man Up, Consequences of Love, Even literary critics dream. They dream that the best is not in the The Family Friend and Il Divo, which won past. Paolo Sorrentino’s first novel, Hanno tutti ragione, is that the Prix du Jury at the 2008 Cannes Film dream come true. It is the story of Tony Pagoda, a Neapolitan singer Festival, This Must Be The Place, starring with a colorful past. We meet him in the early 1980s, in a blooming Sean Penn and Frances McDormand, and and wildly happy Italy. Tony is a picaresque hero: he has talent, most recently The Great Beauty, winner money, women, and an extravagant lifestyle – but he is not superficial. Among his friends are both extraordinary and miserable of the Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy specimens, all of whom teach him something along the way. With his Awards for Best Foreign Language Film exuberant and restless wisdom, Tony is like a contemporary Falstaff, in 2014. Hanno tutti ragione is his first comically revealing the true substance of humans, winners and novel. losers alike. When life gets complicated, Tony seeks silence on a short tour in Brazil. The new setting appeals to him and he decides to stay: first in Rio, then Manaus, where he feels himself crowned by a new freedom (not to mention obsessed with cockroaches). He lives eighteen years in humid, Amazonian exile – and then someone offers to sign a check for an outrageously high sum to bring him back to Italy, where yet a new life awaits.

About Hanno tutti ragione, the critic Antonio D’Orrico has said: “After I had read this beautiful novel I thought of Ezra Pound, who saw the magnificence of Venice and asked God what kind of punishment humans should expect for such an early reward.”

Tony Pagoda e i suoi amici (2012) PUBLISHERS OF Serbia: Booka HANNO TUTTI Spain: Anagrama RAGIONE: UK: Harvill Secker Croatia: Vukovi´c&Runji´c US: Europa Czech Republic: Dybbuk France: Albin Michel Germany: Aufbau Israel: Kinneret Netherlands: Lebowski

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GINO STRADA La peste / The Plague is a war surgeon and a founder of For a few months in 2014, the world trembled in the face of a tiny Emergency, the Italian humanitarian virus. Ebola emerged from the forests of equatorial Africa and association for the care and rehabilitation conquered three countries, as well as threatened to spread to many of victims of war. With Feltrinelli he has more by ship, plane and sea. In addition to the thousands of Africans published Papagalli verdi (1999) and killed, Americans, Spanish, and English citizens were infected. Buskashì (2002).

The idea that this catastrophe might not only reach the West but ROBERTO SATOLLI also invade our homes made us very afraid. The Italian is a doctor and journalist. He worked for humanitarian association Emergency had arrived in Sierra Leone a decade as a clinical cardiologist, then during the terrible civil war that had bloodied the country in the dedicated himself to the dissemination 1990s. It helped victims of mutilation, landmines, and rape–and has of information in the fields of health always opposed war, the violence of man against man. Suddenly, it found itself on the frontlines of a different war, a war waged by a and science, including editing scientific virus, a war finally worth fighting, but in this case with weapons of journals and co-founding the editorial medicine, science, and humanity. agency Zadig. With Feltrinelli he has published, with Paolo Vineis, I due dogmi: So Gino Strada flew to Africa, along with his old school friend Oggettività della scienza e integralismo Roberto Satolli and the Catanian doctor Fabrizio Pulvirenti, as well etico (2009). as dozens of other volunteers whose voices and stories populate and animate this eye-opening account. Sometimes a war, these FABRIZIO PULVIRENTI volunteers would learn, is “just” a war: there are those who tell lies, a doctor from Catania, made the headlines those who line their own pockets while endangering civilians, those when he was infected with Ebola while who voice high principles but never actually put them into practice. serving as a volunteer with Emergency Once again, the ability to save lives is put on one side of the scale, while on the other there pile up the economic, political, and in Sierra Leone. bureaucratic expenses. In Africa, merely trying to provide the same care available to the richer West becomes a revolutionary act.

Pappagalli Verdi (1999) Buskashì (2002)

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“Nadia Urbinati explains what democracy has meant in the past and what is becoming now, a time of great social, economic and technological change.” La Repubblica

NADIA URBINATI Democrazia in diretta / teaches Political Theory at Columbia Democracy Live University and writes for La Repubblica. She is the author of many books and In recent years, democracy has started to undergo a series of essays in both English and Italian on metamorphoses in response to crises that are putting a strain on the concepts, theories, and history of societies and their institutions. In its long history, democracy has democracy. demonstrated itself to have an amazing ability to metabolize transformations, yielding new procedures–and now, for the first time after its rebirth following World War II, the changes are revolutionary. We do not know what characteristics democracy will have when the revolution is over, nor even whether it will be recognizable. Still, by analyzing the processes in place, as Urbinati does here, we can better understand the direction in which we are moving, as well as which changes are likely to be most significant. We can examine how the Internet challenges dictatorial governments and revives the ancient democratic promise of autonomy, even if it cannot eliminate the risks of demagogy. Ideas of citizenship and the “general good” evolve to be determined not by individual actors but by entire audiences. Methods of representation evolve as people become less and less tolerant of political parties who, through media under their control, articulate their own interests and encourage pluralism. Urbinati looks to the horizon of this revolution toward a phenomenon she calls “live democratic representation” and analyzes its most striking experiments. In elucidating the effects of innovation on democratic procedures, she also analyzes how technology both enriches democracy and compromises the efficacy of institutions to manage their citizens.

Catalogo Frankfurt 2015 x STAMPA.indd 39 29/09/15 11.27 GRAZIA VERASANI

GRAZIA VERASANI Senza ragione apparente / born in Bologna in 1964, is a writer, For No Aparent Reason playwright, and songwriter. She has published several novels, including Tutto Autumn. In a damp and gray Bologna, Giorgia Cantini is working on il freddo che ho preso (Feltrinelli 2008) a new case. Emilio, a seventeen-year-old high school student in the and Mare d’inverno (Giunti 2014). Her city, committed suicide for no apparent reason, leaving only the brief crime series, “The Investigations of Giorgia message: I’m tired. Eight months later, Emilio’s mother is determined Cantini,” has been translated into French, to identify who is responsible. And so Giorgia is immersed in an German, and Russian, and includes adolescent world of hip-hop, marijuana, and endless chatter–a world in which first loves are born, but also anxiety about the future. Quo vadis, baby? (which was adapted There is also, during this dark time, a second suspected suicide, and by director Gabriele Salvatores into the the nightmare of a night in which yet another act of irreparable 2005 film of the same name, as well as a consequence may have occured. Adding to the suspense is the television series), Velocemente da nessuna confusion felt by the adults at the edges of these events, the collapse parte, Di tutti e di nessuno, and Cosa sai of the facades behind which they’d been hiding, the fiction that has della notte, all published by Feltrinelli. crumbled and the arguably intentional damage these fictions have Verasani’s operatic theatrical work From done to their children. It is in this climate of uncertainty–of swirling Medea-Maternity Blues (Sironi 2004) was values and emotions in a city reflecting a country increasingly in made into a film featured at the Venice crisis–that Giorgia presses on. Beside her is her surreal assistant Film Festival in 2012 and won several Genzianella and the head of the Homicide Unit Luca Bruni, with prizes. Verasani has studied classical whom Giorgia has been living for a few months, although their relationship remains a secret. And then there is Mattia, Bruni’s piano and in 1995 won the Premio Città sixteen-year-old son, who will help Georgia understand something di Recanati songwriting prize; she has deeper about his generation, a generation forced to exist in a also released the CDs Nata mai and, more progressively ambiguous world, where “keeping up appearances” recently, Sotto un cielo blu diluvio. is no longer possible and the meaning of things evermore elusive.

Tutto il freddo che ho preso (2008) Velocemente da nessuna parte (2009) Cosa sai della notte (2012) Di tutti e di nessuno (2012) Quo vadis, baby? (2014)

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