Thursday, November 27, 2008

'Corpo a corpo' [Impossible interviews]

Corpo a corpo. Interviste impossibili
Einaudi, 2008

Alessandro Baricco and Victoria Cabello meet Rossini
Andrea Camilleri meets Venerdì [Robinson Crusoe]
Vinicio Capossela and Ramin Bahrami meet Bach
Gianrico Carofiglio meets Tex Willer
Emma Dante meets Polifemo
Carlo Lucarelli meets Edgar Allan Poe
Piergiorgio Odifreddi meets Galileo Galilei
Tommaso Pincio meets Kurt Cobain
Antonio Scurati meets Garibaldi
Walter Siti meets Ercole
Gianmaria Testa meets Fred Buscaglione

The tradition of impossible interviews came from the Seventies, when Rai asked writers to "meet" their personage. Among them, there were Eco, Sciascia, Manganelli, Sanguineti, Sermonti and Camilleri. The interviews were published by Bompiani in 1975 and Donzelli in 2006.
[audio files: Umberto Eco meets Beatrice and Nelo Risi meets Giosue Carducci]

Some of the new interviews were performed in Rome at Auditorium Parco della Musica [video].

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