Friday 3 June, Meeting with Michele Tari

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May 132016
 

at shadows white, on the occasion of the publication of his book Far from Venice published by Serge Safran. As part of the Festival “Going on your first Bach” to be held on Friday 3 to Sunday 5 June 2016.

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Michèle Tari was born in 1949 in Toulouse. Author of several books dedicated to Venice, whose 2 were brought to the scene (Vincennes cartoucherie, Theatre Olympe de Gouges of Montauban, Festival Baroque de Pontoise). She is also a painter and filmmaker. Far from Venice is his fourth novel.

In the autumn of their lives, Antonio Vivaldi, Rosalba Carriera and Giacomo Casanova are exiled from Venice, After there glory.

In Vienna, suffering from frail health, Vivaldi has taken refuge at the widow Wahler. Prolific musician, He is preparing to call his last opera for Anna Girò, his fetish performer. Rosalba Carriera, Portrait of renown in the art of pastel, a view which. At his home in Dorsoduro, surrounded by women, a more dark veil away of the Serenissima. It's Dux, in Bohemia, in the Waldstein Castle, that Casanova spent his old age. Hired as librarian, He devoted his time to his memoirs when it is not persecuted by the servants or with the daughter of the doorman.

Between shadow and light, farce and tragedy, Michèle Tari plunges us into the heart of the daily from 3 most emblematic characters of Venice.

The new novel by Alessandro Baricco

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Apr 152016
 

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“Young wife”

ToVEC delicacy and virtuosity, the author of silk and Novecento pianist does not merely recreate an enchanting world, at the edge of the fall, which is not unlike that Tomasi di Lampedusa portrayed in the Leopard.
He also gives us, the air of nothing, a great reflection on the craft of writing.

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Original title: Sposa giovane

Trad. the Italian by Vincent Raynaud

Collection from around the world, Gallimard /224 p. / 19,50 €

Italy, beginning of the XXand century. One fine day, the young wife appeared before the family. She is eighteen and disembarks from Argentina because she should marry the son. Until he returned to England, She is greeted by the family. The young wife then saw a genuine sexual initiation : the daughter the seduced and made her education, duly completed by the mother, and father the duct in a luxury brothel where she will listen to a story building, that will unveil it the mysteries of this family in that incomprehensible as sophisticated rituals. But the son is still not, It just ship all sorts of strange objects, who seem initially announce his return and then mean to contrast his disappearance. When the family moved to summer resorts, the young wife decides to wait for him only, an expectation that will be full of surprises.

The young Bride, by Alessandro Baricco. The book trailer

How still resists Venice ?

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Apr 142016
 

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Despite the hard time and the elements being exerted against it, Venice does not die yet. This force, she owes to his serene soul, product of a long history built by a people out of the ordinary : the Venetians. The Serenissima book us so exciting lessons : lesson in democracy through different forms of power that it has experienced, economy lesson because Venice had a specific place during the Italian miracle, lesson of geography and urban planning, with the originality of Campi, These plots that animate the city, and especially lesson about art and the way of living together, in harmony and cooperation.

This untold story of Venice could not be told that by someone who lived there and was fascinated by the fragility of its elegance. Jacques Prades has conducted research in economic anthropology for four years in the North of the Italy. He has published numerous books, including 'all in cooperatives. ! "by the same Publisher. He teaches social economy at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès. The preface is signed by Serge Latouche, Professor at the Université Paris-Sud and "growth objector..

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Today at the bookstore ! “Venice history, walks, Anthology and dictionary”

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Apr 142016
 

Good looking “Books” monographic on Venice, with walks, a historical synthesis, literary excerpts and a dictionary in which Fabien Coletti and Hélène Mitayne committed pages 40 !

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Designed by a team of french and Italian scholars, This volume is one of the most rich and ambitious books devoted to this mythical city which continues to fascinate millions of visitors.

Venice - "one of the most poetic secrets that ever existed on this earth", According to one of its best connoisseurs, Dino Buzzati - never ceases to fascinate countless visitors with its architectural splendour and disturbing and enchanting mystery.
Joint work of french and Italian employees from different backgrounds, This volume plunges us into the heart of this legendary town through a meticulous and original exploration that contradicts good shots without altering its legend. It shows how it is built over time by a fierce desire for domination of its natural environment. For centuries, Venice was an autonomous State, a rebel Republic and a dreaded maritime power. A city outsized whose prestige feeds the imagination that it inspires. The city of love, of seduction, sensuality, but also the symbol of the end of a world.
At the discretion of the walks he proposes, This book of unparalleled magnitude provides access to knowledge both realistic and intimate of Venetian life. Has always been prized by the french writers, Venice has also inspired the authors of all nationalities. The texts collected in the anthology, often unsung and sometimes unreleased, bear witness to this cosmopolitan dimension. Thanks to the dictionary of places, characters, works of art, institutions, festivities and traditions which closes this set, the reader can invent its own course in a labyrinthine city to the inexhaustible charm.

Mort on Umberto Eco, auteur du “Nom de la rose” , the 19 February 2016 / ” death of the more literate of dreamers” /Iconic quotes by Umberto Eco

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Feb 222016
 

eco2Great Italian intellectual, the writer Umberto Eco, died on the night of Friday to Saturday at the age of 84 years, was an academic, linguist and philosopher who rose to global fame with a medieval and erudite thriller, The name of the rose .
This philosopher by training, celebrated on the later while approaching fifties, has managed a masterstroke with his first novel published in 1980, The name of the rose has sold several million copies and has been translated into 43 languages. It has been adapted for the cinema in 1986 by the French Jean-Jacques Annaud with Sean Connery in the role of Brother William of Baskerville, the ex-inquisiteur to investigate the death suspicious of a monk in an Abbey of the Italy North. Peppered with latin, the polar of this renowned with the affable roundness semiologist was even the target of pirate editions, including in Arabic under the title sex at the convent… Another consequence, significant for the Italian edition, “The name of the rose revived the novel in Italy and Italian literature abroad. The Italian authors have again been translated”, says critic and Italian novelist Alain Elkann.
After the name of the rose, He particularly offered its readers Foucault's pendulum (1988), The island of the day from front (1994) and the mysterious flame of Queen Loana (2004).

His latest novel, Number zero, published in 2014 is a contemporary thriller centered on the world of the press. He is also the author of dozens of trials involving also eclectic than medieval aesthetics, the poetics of Joyce, vegetable memory, James Bond, the art of the fake, the history of beauty or that of ugliness.
“Beauty lies within certain limits while the ugly is infinite, therefore more complex, more varied, more fun”, He explained in an interview in 2007, adding that he had “always had affection for monsters”. Claiming “write for fun”, It Professore – malicious eyes behind glasses and a white beard – was also a bibliophile and possessed more than 30 000 titles including rare editions. “Eco was a first class, very intelligent, very erudite. He played brilliantly the figure of the European intellectual. He is also comfortable in Paris and Berlin to New York or Rio”, considers Alain Elkann.

Iconic quotes by Umberto Eco:

  • "The weaknesses of the wicked are the same as those of the saints."
  • "Lets talk about your heart, queries the faces, don't listen to languages…”
  • "If God exists, It's a library."
  • "TV makes intelligent people who do not have access to culture and abrutit those who believe themselves cultivated."
  • "Science is not only whether to be or may be, but also to know what could be done when well even should not do so."
  • "The themes of the tragedy are universal, While those comedy are more rooted in the cultures."
  • "There are four ideal types : the moron, the fool, the crazy and the stupid. The normal, It is the balanced blend of four."

Mourning in the world culture/Morto writer Umberto Eco: We will miss his insight into the world

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Feb 222016
 

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Had 84 years. AND’ was philosopher, semiologist and a great expert of communication. He never lost the desire to observe the policy. He had just launched a new publishing house “The ship of Theseus”, After refusing to stay in what he called “The Mondazzoli”, the fusion Mondadori-Rcs. AND’ was also time collaborator of La Repubblica and L'Espresso
The world loses one of its most important cultural figures contemporaries and all of us will miss his insight into the world. Had 84 years, It was writer, philosopher, great observer and expert on communication and media. The confirmation of the death of the author “The name of the rose” and de “Foucault's pendulum” was given by the family in the Republic.

The death occurred at 22.30 last night at his home.

 

The Italy and cinema…

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Feb 122016
 

A large and beautiful book to its second draw…

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Interviews with the main players, actresses and Italian directors, conducted by journalists who are not only specialists in Italian cinema, but true "feathers"., reporters, writers, Essayists, that have marked the major pages of Italian and international of the period journalism : Oriana Fallaci, Alberto Moravia, Oreste Del Buono, Claudio Carabba or Lietta Tornabuoni.
A collaboration with the publishing house Rizzoli/Corriere della will be.
The first book talk :
«Neorealism"with, among others, Roberto Rossellini, Giuseppe De Santis, Luchino Visconti, or Toto and Anna Magnani.
«The Italy of the boom», Autour by Federico Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina and Claudia Cardinale or Sophia Loren, the comedy with Dino Risi and Mario Monicelli and the beginnings of political film by Francesco Rosi.
«The Italy of conflict"and an iconic actor, Gian Maria volonté, but as directors such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marco Ferreri and Elio Petri, Michelangelo Antonioni or the young Marco Bellocchio.
Soon pending the second volume dedicated to contemporary cinema (working on the drafting of RADICI), I recommend this first part in order not to lose this duo unpublished editorial with an iconography of exception.

“CANZONIERE of an Italy that sings and tells”

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Feb 122016
 

Publishing House: RADICI EDITALIE/new book edited by Gualtiero Bertelli

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Un livre riche de 300 songs and enriched this time of partitions. An important book which for many will wake up personal or family memories that, for others, will be new discoveries source.

After the success of the book, “This Italy that sings me”, the publishing house, RADICI EDITALIE decided to produce a new volume of songs, more ambitious. To direct, they have appealed to one of the greatest Italian experts of popular and traditional singing, many of you know already : Gualtiero Bertelli ! It is to him that we must, Indeed, the setting of the show which is currently experiencing a great success: “Italian when the emigrants was we”. A book rich of more than 300 songs and enriched this time of partitions. An important book which for many will wake up personal or family memories that, for others, will be new discoveries source.
528 pages (287 songs with partitions) 25 € + 5 € shipping costs
10, Rue Elliott- 31000 Toulouse
Tel : 05 62 17 50 37

http://www.radici-press.net/

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