2023-08-28 20:17:08
by Culture Editor
In the number on newsstands and in the App, the new novel by Coetzee, the tenth anniversary of Heaney’s death. Then the writer Mauro Covacich reflects on the friendship between Svevo and Joyce; extra digital: affinities, friendships, loves in correspondence between men of letters
The letters exchanged between the French author Anaïs Nin and the American writer in Paris, Henry Miller; or the friendship kept alive through correspondence between two authors of the Beat generation, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. Of epistolary correspondences, between elective affinities, great friendships, loves between writers… the Theme of the Day deals with, digital-only in-depth analysis of Tuesday 29 August, edited by Ida Bozzi, in the App of «la Lettura». While on «la Lettura» #613 on newsstands and in the App the writer Mauro Covacich reflects on the friendship between James Joyce and Italo Svevo starting from the book by Eugenio Terrinoni The life of the other. Svevo, Joyce: a brilliant friendship (Bompiani).
In the App of «la Lettura», in the Topics section, it is also possible to read other insights and digital-only contents: among these, the incipit of the investigative book by Antonio Talia The season of spies to be released on Tuesday 29 August by minimum fax, a reconnaissance on the activities of the Russian secret services in Italy before and during the invasion of Ukraine; to Talia’s book «la Lettura» #613 dedicates the article by Ilaria Ragazzoni.
Among the other available Themes, the digital extra by Simone Innocenti dedicated to «novels of novels» or texts that explore the resources of metal-literature: from Bontempelli to Amos Oz, passing through Calvino, Manganelli and others. Finally, in the App there are also other focuses such as that of Helmut Failoni on the discography of the violinist Gidon Kremer, who opened the Elba Isola Musicale d’Europe festival.
In addition to the Theme of the Day and the most recent issue of the supplement previewed already on Saturdays, the «la Lettura» App for smartphones and tablets also offers the archive of all the issues released since 2011. Subscribing to the App costs 3. 99 euros per month or 39.99 per year, with one week free. The subscription can also be subscribed from the desktop starting from this page. For subscribers, the contents are also visible from PCs and Macs starting from their Profile page.
As for «la Lettura» #613, on newsstands and in the App, it is opened by two Nobel Prize winners for Literature, JM Coetzee and Seamus Heaney, with different perspectives on Europe. The writer JM Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2003, in his new novel Il Polacco (Einaudi, in bookshops from 29 August), as illustrated by the review by Cristina Taglietti, constructs a sentimental story inspired by «European» loves (Dante and Beatrice, Frédéric Chopin and George Sand) but also a critique of the hegemony of the English language. For the Northern Irish poet Heaney (1939-2013), Nobel in 1995, on the other hand, English was indeed the language of the British Empire but, as emerges from the Poems reproposed by Mondadori on the tenth anniversary of his death (in bookstores from 29 August), he allowed the European classics to dialogue with each other: his translations from Latin authors, Dante and Giovanni Pascoli demonstrate this. Roberto Galaverni writes about it.
Other topics in the issue: Martin Luther King led the March on Washington 60 years ago and Marcello Flores examines the report of the International Labor Organization on the “new slaves”. In closing, three texts by the author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte on the war in Ukraine, Elena Kostjucenko on the attempted poisoning, Jonathan Coe on the post-Brexit; of Antonio Talia’s essay on Russian infiltration (The season of spies, minimum fax) writes Ilaria Ragazzoni.
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