Parole Insieme – literally “words together” – is being live-streamed again: a new encounter with the winner of the Premio Campiello 2020
A new series of Parole Insieme, the programme of meetings with authors for Pirelli readers, this year comes in a new digital format: a series of conversations that are live streamed.
This time the director of the Pirelli Foundation, Antonio Calabrò, will be talking with the writer Remo Rapino, winner of the prestigious Premio Campiello, which was sponsored by Pirelli in 2020. This new event will look at the book Vita, morte e miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio and how, by telling the stories of marginal figures like that of Liborio, literature is able to “give voice to those who have no voice”.
The book tells the story of Bonfiglio Liborio, who, now in his eighties, picks up a black Bic ballpoint and a notebook with nice straight lines and decides to tell the story of his life, starting with the father he never knew but whose eyes he is said to have inherited. His memories span almost a century and are intertwined with the history of Italy of those years. Remo Rapino writes this novel in a language that mixes Italian, dialectal expressions, slang and made-up words. Rapino’s Liborio is an outcast, living on the margins of society: a figure who moves through the cracks in history, in a world that seems not even to notice his presence.
To watch the video of the meeting, click here.
Enjoy the read and the videos!
A new series of Parole Insieme, the programme of meetings with authors for Pirelli readers, this year comes in a new digital format: a series of conversations that are live streamed.
This time the director of the Pirelli Foundation, Antonio Calabrò, will be talking with the writer Remo Rapino, winner of the prestigious Premio Campiello, which was sponsored by Pirelli in 2020. This new event will look at the book Vita, morte e miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio and how, by telling the stories of marginal figures like that of Liborio, literature is able to “give voice to those who have no voice”.
The book tells the story of Bonfiglio Liborio, who, now in his eighties, picks up a black Bic ballpoint and a notebook with nice straight lines and decides to tell the story of his life, starting with the father he never knew but whose eyes he is said to have inherited. His memories span almost a century and are intertwined with the history of Italy of those years. Remo Rapino writes this novel in a language that mixes Italian, dialectal expressions, slang and made-up words. Rapino’s Liborio is an outcast, living on the margins of society: a figure who moves through the cracks in history, in a world that seems not even to notice his presence.
To watch the video of the meeting, click here.
Enjoy the read and the videos!