Milo De Angelis protagonist “ChiassoLetteraria”

Lorenzo Morandotti Posted On 19 April 2018

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Milo De Angelis, jury award, star border. The thirteenth edition of “ChiassoLetteraria”, which takes place from 2 to the 6 May 2018 in Chiasso, is entitled TABOO, theme that will be declined in its literary meanings, artistic, psychological, socio-cultural and political. The concept of taboo has an ambivalent character designating persons, objects, places or behavior worthy of attention and respect or potential contaminants, and to avoid. Between the sacred and the profane, between pure and impure, there is no culture that is being faced with the concept of liminal taboos.

Women writers and international guest writers will lead us into the fascinating world of taboos and unspeakable: Dany Laferrière will lead us with the skill that is proper in the writer's kitchen and taboos that the writer has to face; Jan Brokken will talk about political and aesthetic taboos with which the artistic avant-garde in Russia are compared. The voice of Milo De Angelis, among the major European poets, vibrate in taboos that poetry is called to break to maintain its vocation of authenticity; while Donatella Di Pietrantonio will take us to the heart of family taboos, those taboos able to score a lifetime. If you plunge Tom Drury, empathy with the great writer, in taboo rooted in rural communities in the American Midwest, Alberto Nessi will lead with a light step along the path of the little big taboos that mark the life on the frontier. The other focus will decline strongly and consistency thanks to Davide Enia, that will make us confront taboos that humanity is called to fight to truly be said that, e Max Lobe, that will show us with an irony outspoken taboo subject of which is the "stranger" in the difficult path of integration. Since its geopolitical observatory, Loretta Napoleoni will reveal the secrets that govern the dynamics of organized crime, terrorism and human trafficking. With Burhan Sönmez go down without compromise to the heart of the taboo of silence and censorship, those that the writer must overcome to tell the truth, even at the cost of being imprisoned or tortured. Other taboos are the ones on which we will make careful anthropologist Marino Niola, who will speak on totems and taboos of food tribes. Finally, or perhaps better to begin, psychoanalyst and writer Massimo Recalcati will reveal the deep taboos that simultaneously agitate and structure our psyche and the collective imagination. If every taboo has its own story, and each story its taboos, ChiassoLetteraria to be the opportunity for them to hear the voice of some great writers and writers.

A special area will be given to Swiss literature with some appointments: Max Lobe, Swiss author of Cameroonian origin. His novels deal with themes such as homosexuality, immigration, Racism and give us an ironic portrait of Switzerland and its less noble sides. Nel 2017, with Confidences, Lobe was awarded the Prix Ahmadou Kourouma, while in 2018 Salerno Book Award in Europe 2018. Three young Swiss writers, representing the three linguistic and cultural regions of Switzerland will intervene on the issue of relations (and taboos) family: Julia Weber (Everything is always beautiful), Lolvé Tillmanns (The sons), Sibilla De Stefani (The innocent last).
It will also introduce a preview of the new collection of stories by Alberto Nessi (The literary cities. Italian Switzerland), which invites us to follow him on his walks to the discovery of small literary great wonders of this land border. A Nessi was awarded the Grand Prize Swiss 2016 Lifetime, the most important recognition in the cultural Swiss.
Separate mention requires the preview of "RHIN" (live presentation vinyl). A project by Flavio Stroppini, Andrea Manzoni (piano), Matthew Carassini (voice), Flavio Stroppini (mix suoni). Production Monica De Benedictis. Realized by nucleomeccanico.com and anothermusicrecords.com.
The plans for a cargo ship got accidentally become, after years, a booster to which it is necessary to respond. So, in 2015, begins a long journey that led the author in ports between India, Spagna, Thailand, Tunisia, Ireland, Poland and Turkey. "The ship was gone. But I had to leave, it was as if I had in the task of reconstructing their lives. I can not explain today why this adventure. I had to do it, I did it. I went over there, I took notes and recorded sounds. All this has changed me. Now I feel good. "
In vinyl words and sounds, transformed into music, diventanola testimony of a physical journey and at the same time interior

Several side events such as poetry slam, film screenings (a tribute evening to Mariella Mehr), workshops for children, concerts, art installations, video, djs, etc..

A teatro art deco, workshop transformed into exhibition hall, an old villa that houses a public library, an Irish pub, a shared workspace and a club where "morning cough" these are the places from subdued but vivid charm that characterize ChiassoLetteraria. A festival for close encounters between writer and reader, pursuing with passion and commitment shared idea of culture. A button festival has been able to gain credibility in cultural circles and trust of the public by now very numerous, thanks to a program not granted and the quality and the discoveries that proposes. Free admission. Program and information: chiassoletteraria.ch

The meetings are in the original language, with translation into Italian.

The Festival is organized by the homonymous ChiassoLetteraria association with the advice of a scientific committee, the support of the Municipality and the Cultural Center Chiasso, Canton of Ticino, The Pro Helvetia, dell’Hupac S.A., S.A of AGE and several private and public sponsors and the media-partnership of the Network of CSR TWO, who will be present at the Festival with a workstation "live", Extra and Corriere del Ticino. It can also count on the contribution of about 300 members.

As evidence of the opening drive and accessibility, the entrance is free for the entire Festival except the dinner with writers and film screening.

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