Knowing how to use words. To define the world we live in and the emotions we feel, to understand the values we believe in, and to give shape to the ideas that change the world. This sums up the opening pages of Andrea Marcolongo\u2019s latest book, Alla fonte delle parole, or \u201c99 etymologies that tell us of ourselves\u201d, published by Mondadori. A Greek scholar of international renown, and the author of hugely successful essays (The Ingenious Language and The Hero\u2019s Part), Marcolongo draws up \u201ca contemporary, rebellious lexicon\u201d, a story of words \u201cto give you the etymologies that have gradually become my own and that, after you read this, will forever be ours.\u201d She starts out from kr\u00e2sis \u2013 from confusion \u2013 to talk about \u201clabyrinth\u201d, \u201cfire\u201d, \u201cmigrant\u201d and more, all the way to indik\u00f3n for \u201cliberty\u201d, \u201csilk\u201d, \u201cMontgolfier balloon\u201d, \u201cadventure\u201d and, of course, \u201clanguage\u201d. 99 words \u201cto rebel against the confusion and darkness that overwhelm us when we are left without words when faced with the present world\u201d. But also to find our value as people in difficult times, with the degradation of our language and thus of our personal and social relationships.<\/p>
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