Abused or betrayed women, homophobia, discriminated love affairs, foreign lives reinventing themselves, families on the verge of bursting. Twenty stories to be moved, horrified, indignant but also smile and always reflect on the rejection of the other and the diversity that disturbs. It is possible to find all this in Elisabetta Darida’s book “Elementary Intolerances”: a collection of twenty short stories on the intolerances suffered and inflicted daily, which arise from the difficulty of accepting the other. The book published by L’Erudita was presented in the Galleria del Cardinale of Palazzo Colonna by the lawyer Giorgio Assumma (university professor, for years President of the SIAE and director of the magazine “Il copyright”) and by senator Monica Cirinnà, moderator Mariacarmela Leto and with the participation of Gigi Marzullo. ‘works individuals who try to find their place in the world: now with irony now with gravity, creating a whirlwind of emotions ranging from smile to indignation, from horror to emotion. Always with the aim of soliciting reflection .
The lives of the twenty protagonists, moving, acidic, tragic, comic, intersect in a more or less conscious way – each with their own joys, their pains, manias and idiosyncrasies – giving life to an interweaving of relationships that go beyond the single individual. , forming the large and multifaceted fresco of human experience, in a weave woven around a Roman palace overlooking the Tiber.
Elisabetta Darida, born in Rome, worked in Rai as a programmer director, curating cultural radio programs, and was head of the press office at Bocconi University and Accenture Italy. She then decided to devote herself to her passion: writing. In 2021 she was a finalist in the 21st Edition of the International Literary Prize “La donna si tale” You have written short stories published in various anthologies.
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