I really want to talk to you about “Ali per volare” (Guide, 2023) and I hope to be able to do it soon also in some public presentation. I want to talk about it so that the story of my experience can be an outstretched hand for those who suffer from the same suspension of life that runs through my days. I want to talk … Continua a leggere Loredana De Vita: Ali per volare
I started reading “Ali per volare” (Guide, 2023) in an attempt to pretend it wasn’t my experience, but it’s impossible. Every word is a memory that stirs up deep emotions, every word becomes a precise image in my gaze and evokes feelings and memories that cannot be changed or forgotten and from which it is impossible for me to distance myself. This, for a reader … Continua a leggere “Ali per volare”, a True Story
The emotion of the first copy of a book that is published is always very strong. Think back to the effort, the reasons, the people who have been part of it in one way or another. This time the emotion is even stronger because I didn’t think I would have held it in my hands, sniffed the paper, caressed the cover. Above all, however, the … Continua a leggere Ali per volare
Waiting for the publication of my new book makes me very anxious, as always, but even more, since the goal of this book is to raise funds for ovarian cancer research.The question I ask myself every time I publish something and this time even more, is whether I will be able to give the book a future. Because that’s the point.A book is a sign, … Continua a leggere Responsibility in Writing and Reading
I am rereading the draft of my new book and I get excited. I won’t deny that I have a certain difficulty in reliving through writing the often painful emotions of this last year, from the discovery of my disease to the beginning of the new cycle of treatments. I get excited because it seems incredible to me the mere fact of having arrived so … Continua a leggere My Next Book
Over the years, writing has increasingly become for me not an art form, but the way in which I manage to give shape to reality, especially the one that is not talked about, the one that remains hidden in the indifference of the blind and in the detachment of the deaf.It is evident that there is always something of me in what I write, if … Continua a leggere Writing Life
My books are nothing but traces of me, and yet, walking through them means discovering traces of yourself. It is not an enigma or a mystery, but the simple evidence that each life is part of the story of every life. I miei libri non sono che tracce di me, eppure, percorrerli significa scoprire tracce di sé. Non è un enigma né un mistero, ma … Continua a leggere Th Thread of Life
“Giulia” di Loredana De Vita Giulia” l’ultimo intimistico lavoro dell’autrice Loredana De Vita, descrive con accuratezza il mondo interiore di una donna che a poco a poco si risveglierà da un lungo coma. Una storia di rinascita che spingerà la protagonista a rivalutare la sua vita prima di quell’infausto evento che, tuttavia, le ha aperto gli occhi. Contraddizione, questa, grazie alla quale possiamo scorgere la … Continua a leggere Dallo Scaffale al web recensisce “Giulia”
(…)Cindy looked at them, smiled at them knowing they couldn’t understand her. Her world was too different, too far away for them, so accustomed to looking and looking after only their surroundings, to be understood. She did not give up, however, she did not give up, in her land her surrender was not contemplated, each surrender was an act of courage that involved getting up … Continua a leggere Cindy
Edward Scissorshands is a film by Tim Burton from 1990 that I often watch again not only because it is a beautiful film, but because it always offers new ideas and interpretations.What I report is a chapter dedicated to this film, taken from my essay “Donne allo specchio. Immagini e cultura del femminile” (Nulla die, 2014).This film, stripped of its magical vision, leaves an indelible … Continua a leggere Edward Scissorshands
Writing Is Testifying 