LONDON
“I will always be afraid of my thoughts and their ability to transform into monsters and replace reality.” She confides it Stefano Massini al Financial Timeswhich dedicates a long interview to the author of Lehman Trilogythe book published in Italy by Einaudi in 2014 on Lehman Brothers, the American investment bank whose bankruptcy triggered the great financial crisis of 2008, from which the award-winning theatrical adaptation of the same title was based, a great success in Broadway It is in the West End londinese.
Those three hours of terror in Campi Bisenzio, so I saw the river swallow up my land
by Stefano Massini
Il portrait of the 48-year-old Italian writer (a regular contributor to the cultural pages of Republic) is published in the society and customs insert of the City newspaper, How to spend it (How to spend), and for this reason it is set in his house in Tuscany, an old renovated farmhouse with an adjoining chapel, which he purchased a decade ago. “It was a derelict property where I came to play as a child with friends, fantasizing that ghosts were inside,” recalls Massini, born and raised in Florence. “I never imagined that one day it would become my home. It’s a place I love very much, I try to spend as much time there as I can,” he says. I need the silence of this house. I often have a lot of people and noise around me,” he continues, alluding to the shows he does around Italy and his television broadcasts, “but I know that I can only write and have new ideas in silence.”
Sentimental education lessons. Stefano Massini: “We work on the souls of the students”
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In the interview Massini he says that as a boy, in addition to Italian state schools in the morning, he attended a Jewish school in the afternoon, where he learned English and was introduced to the culture of Judaism, “so my books are full of them”. He adds that he doesn’t really feel like an Italian writer, “I hate telling traditional Italian stories, about my city, about my country, we live in an era where everything is global and I consider myself citizen of the world”.
After all, his books, right from the title, have a horizon international: after the story of the Lehman bankers and the latest, Manhattan Projecton the American program for the construction of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the writer reveals that the next one, due out in Italy in the spring, will be on my fight, the autobiography of Hitler, to study “the origins of terror, of violence, of ideas that corrupt the human race”.
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– 2024-04-13 13:23:43
