2023-11-17 22:20:28
by IDA BOZZI
On «La Lettura» Varoufakis, Kafka, «Bambi», Winton; and Sunday 19th the party Saturday 18th in the App and on Sunday 19th on newsstands the new issue with the editorial project dedicated to Kafka in the Meridians, the new editions of «Bambi», the Pulitzer Prize winner Margo Jefferson and other contemporary authors. Extra digital, the incipit of Tim Winton’s book
Literary classics reborn in new editions, and many contemporary writers, in the issue of «la Lettura» #625, Saturday 18 November on the App and Sunday 19 on newsstands (cover by Marion Baruch, right). In view of the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death which will be celebrated in 2024, the Meridiani Mondadori directed by Alessandro Piperno are launching an editorial project edited by the Germanist Luca Crescenzi, about whom Cristina Taglietti writes in the issue: Un medico di campaign, while in the next 10 years the entire work will arrive in 5 volumes with new translations and critical apparatus.
Considered a fairy tale, Bambi. Story of a life in the woods is a masterpiece by Felix Salten, from 1923, revived a hundred years later in two illustrated editions, for Giunti by Fabian Negrin, for Rizzoli by Simone Mussi: on «la Lettura» two reflections on the story and its author are signed Emanuele Trevi and Vivian Lamarque, both Strega winners.
Among today’s authors: Margo Jefferson, Pulitzer Prize winner, will be in Rome on December 8th, for Più libri viviri, with the memoir Sistema nervosa under construction (66thand2nd, in bookshops on November 28th), in which social conquests enter of blacks in America: Viviana Mazza interviews her. The shepherd’s hut (Fazi), a coming-of-age story by the Australian Tim Winton, will be in bookshops on 21 November: Livia Manera writes about it. The incipit of the novel is the Theme of the Day for Saturday 18 November in the “La Lettura” App.
In addition to the Topic of the Day (digital-only extra-daily in-depth analysis) and the most recent issue of the supplement previewed on Saturdays, the «la Lettura» App for smartphones and tablets also offers the archive of all issues released since 2011. Subscribe The App costs 3.99 euros per month or 39.99 per year, with one week free. The subscription can also be subscribed from desktop starting from this page. For subscribers, the contents are also visible from PC and Mac from their Profile page
The drift of a man and an era in the Hong Kong of protests for democracy is narrated in Java Road (Adelphi) by Lawrence Osborne: Marco Del Corona writes about it. And the master of the thriller Jo Nesbø bursts into horror with The House of Darkness (Einaudi Free Style): Ida Bozzi interviews him. The issue opens with Maurizio Ferrera’s extensive interview with former Greek minister Yanis Varoufakis, author of Tecnofeudalesimo (The Ship of Theseus).
On newsstands you can also find the 2024 Diaries of «la Lettura» (and 9.90 plus the cost of «Corriere»). And to celebrate its 12 years, «la Lettura» is partying on Sunday 19 November in the Sala Buzzati at «Corriere» (4pm) as part of BookCity Milano: guests at the #Bibliotherapy event, hosted by Alessia Rastelli, the performer Auroro Borealo, the critic Piero Dorfles, the author and DJ Chiara Galeazzi, the neuroscientist Michela Matteoli, the poet and slammer Antonio Amadeus Pinnetti, the author and lawyer Ester Viola, the singer-songwriter Filospada.
November 17, 2023 (modified November 17, 2023 | 7:41 pm)
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