2023-08-10 23:43:12
The last page of Michela Murgia’s life, which lasted only one year in more than half a century, closed today at the age of 51: she was born in Cabras in the province of Oristano on June 3, 1972. A life which, before to give her the notoriety achieved as a writer, especially with the novel ‘Accabadora’, has seen her engaged in completely different roles, far from each other and all extraneous to the world of literary culture: religion teacher, then caretaker of night and timeshare saleswoman, tax consultant and manager at a thermal power plant.
Instead, it is the world of call centers and telephone marketing that he describes in his first book, entitled ‘The world must know’, written in the form of a diary and initially conceived as a blog, published in 2006 with the subtitle ‘tragic-comic novel of a precarious telephonist. Narration that inspires the screenplay of the film ‘All life ahead’ with Sabrina Ferilli, Isabella Ragonese, Elio Germano, Valerio Mastandrea and Massimo Ghini directed in 2008 by Paolo Virzì.
From 2009 is his most iconic book, ‘Accabadora’, released by Einaudi and then translated into various languages. The title evokes the Sardinian figure, archaic or legendary, of she who gives death to dying people for a sort of pitiful proto-euthanasia; novel that gives her victory at the prestigious Campiello and Mondello literary awards. From 2017 is her contribution for the publication of ‘I killed her because I loved her: false!’ on the issue of femicide.
The direct commitment to television is also noteworthy, for the programs ‘Le Invasioni Barbariche’ on La7 and ‘Quante Storie’ on Rai3. The public commitment, on the other hand, starts from Catholic Action and continues first with support for the Sardinian independence movements that candidate her for president of Sardinia, obtaining just over 10% of the electoral consensus in the 2014 regional elections; then with the Left and the list formed by Si, the Communist Refoundation and the Other Europe which did not reach 2% of the votes in the European elections. Until the recent controversies with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, against her wanting to define herself as ‘the’ and not ‘the’ president and on the fact that being a woman is not enough to automatically make policies in favor of women.
Her private life has seen her gain the attention of the media and public opinion even in the last phase of her existence: first for the announcement with which she made public that she was affected by a tumor that had reached the fourth stage and therefore with a short life expectancy; and immediately after with the decision taken by Michela Murgia, already married from 2010 to 2014 with the Lombard computer scientist Manuel Persico, to marry ‘in articulo mortis’ in second marriage with the director Lorenzo Terenzi, even though she does not believe in the value of marriage but for guarantee to his ‘extended’ queer family what the state still does not guarantee by law, defining his wedding “a political act”.
(by Enzo Bonaiuto)
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