Appointment on Saturday 16 at "The Garden" community center for the presentation of Angelo Australi's book titled "Walking Where I belong."
Daniele Barni and Edoardo Chiti will dialogue with the author.
A buffet will be provided at the end of the meeting.
A BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON THE AUTHOR AND THE SPEAKERS
ANGELO AUSTRALI was born and lives in Figline Valdarno. He made his debut in 1980 with the novel Roscio, published by the Ciminiera publishing house founded by writer Vincenzo Guerrazzi. He has several books to his credit, most recently Tommisse (Edizioni dell'Erba, Fucecchio, 2022). Since 2014 he has maintained a literature column in the online magazine Poliscritture. His short stories have appeared in many prestigious literary journals.
Walking where I belong, published by Società Editrice Fiorentina, was published in February 2024.
DANIELE BARNI works on poetry, art history and literary criticism. He is a contributor to MicroMega magazine. For Italic Pequod he published the poetry collection L'antologia (2011); for Cartman Edizioni the essay Lo sguardo della critica: i conoscitori d'arte in Italia tra XIX e XX secolo (2016); for Mimesis, Jouvence philosophy series, the essay Il santo e l'eroe.
EDOARDO CHITI teaches Administrative Law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa. There are many publications related to his research interests, the latest of which is The European Green Deal. How to Build the New Europe, written with Dario Bevilacqua (Il Mulino 2024). He is a member of various research groups and editorial boards of several scientific journals. In 2017 for the publisher Round Robin he published the novel Atlas.
INFO ABOUT THE BOOK, TAKEN FROM THE PREFACE
"In an increasingly frivolous world where reading becomes a very complicated thing (a novel seems like a mountain to climb), we can do nothing but recommend reading these short stories; everyone will then find their own, their most intimate one. [...] William Carlos Williams [...] argues that "the short story, acting like the spark of a lighted match in the dark, is the only real way to describe the brevity, the fragmentation and at the same time the wholeness of people's lives." [...] And that is what we find in Angelo Australi's stories because the author stages precisely life in all its fragmentariness and brevity. But with great talent that life itself sometimes does not possess" (from the afterword by René Corona)
