the Sicilian writer
twelve o’clock, December 5, 2021 – 20:54
Andreina and Mariolina tell Rai News 24: “There is also her first attempt at storytelling: it will all flow into the” Fondo Camilleri “which will open to the public in spring”
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Garage and cellar return Andrea Camilleri’s intact papers. Original folders, stills, private. A discovery for the daughters of the “father” of Inspector Montalbano, the beloved Sicilian writer who died two years ago: “We have found a charming and intelligent man” they say exclusively to RaiNews24. “Dad asked us to retrieve his material, but the thing that gave us great joy was finding so many documents, so many writings and being able to tell him about it because he was still alive when we really started to find a treasure”, they say Andreina and Mariolina. A treasure which also includes many unpublished: «One day we told him Dad we found Sweet Giorgia Brown – Camilleri’s daughters tell us – and he told us mamma mia you have found my first attempt at a story, so he was happy and this thing for us is an immense joy but also a great responsibility ».
The Camilleri Fund will open in spring
Andreina and Mariolina say that all the treasure found will flow into the “Fondo Camilleri” under construction, designed by the architect Simone di Benedetto, but already recognized by institutions of historical interest. It will open to the public in the spring for scholars, enthusiasts and schools. A preview and exclusive to RaiNews24 were shown the notebooks of an adolescent Andrea Camilleri, bound by himself, on moods and agendas with commitments – he read a book every two days – and the first poems defined as “very good »by Elio Vittorini and among other things the original document of a real request for the concession of a telephone line that will become the story of a documentary novel. RaiNew24 was also told anecdotes that reveal a little of Camilleri’s soul, such as the story of “Judgment at midnight”, a comedy that he always said he threw out of the window while returning home from a trip to Florence for a prize: the daughters, however, found five copies of the novel in the cellar, effectively denying the story of their father.
The early tales
Four early stories by Andrea Camilleri were instead found not long ago in the archive of «L’Ora». These are two stories of sea and returns, which Camilleri wrote at the age of 24 and which, to his own surprise, some time after sending them to the editorial office, he read on the third page of the Palermo newspaper. It was 1949. Published once and then never again. Until ending up among his texts considered scattered, lost. To then come back to light, after more than half a century and re-published last summer on the Facebook page «L’Ora. Extraordinary edition”.
December 5, 2021 | 20:54
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