One land, one author: in Italy with Erri De Luca, writing against the impossible
Audio 29:00
Erri De Luca, Italian writer, in studio at RFI (September 2020).
© Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint / RFI
By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint
32 mins
Erri De Luca, born in Naples in 1950, after having been a worker, an activist, became a writer, poet and translator.
He is the author of an abundant body of work, including the novels
Montedidio
(2002, Foreign Femina Prize) and
The Weight of the Butterfly
(2011), or more recently
Le tour de l'oie
(2019).
His new novel has been translated into French under the title
Impossible,
by Danièle Valin, by Gallimard editions.
(Replay)
Publicity
French cover of the novel © Gallimard
"On a steep path in the Dolomites, a man falls into the void. Behind him, another man gives the alert. However, they are not strangers. Companions of the same revolutionary group, forty years earlier, the first had delivered the second and all his former comrades in the police An improbable meeting, an impossible coincidence above all, for the magistrate in charge of the case, who tries to make the suspect confess a premeditated murder.
In a novel of great tension, Erri De Luca recreates the exchange between a young judge and an accused, an old man "of the generation most sued in the history of Italy".
But the questioning slowly turns into a dialogue and a rich reflection on commitment, justice, friendship and betrayal takes shape. "(Presentation of
Gallimard editions
)
ALSO DISCOVER
* The audio version of the novel
Impossible,
in the
"Listen to Read" collection
at Gallimard
* The previous novel by Erri De Luca
The Goose Tour,
published in the
"Folio"
collection
.
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