A day dedicated to women opened the events of AES, the Sardinian Publishers Association present again this year at the Turin International Book Fair, which opened today at the Lingotto. AES brings together at the Show for the 37th consecutive year the majority of Sardinian publishers, 31, the same publishers who, with their catalog and consolidated activity, guarantee full representation of the Island and its culture. There are around five thousand books that AES brings to Turin, also staging a series of original events to promote the sector.
The inaugural day of the Salon opened in a packed Granata room with the preview of the “Mediterranea. Cultures. Exchanges. Passaggi”, scheduled in Alghero next July, one of the three AES events included in the main program of the Salone: “Story of love and pain”, homage to Grazia Deledda and Eleonora Duse120 years after the first edition of Deleddi’s novel “Ashes” and one hundred years after the death of Duse, who acted for the cinema only once, in the film adaptation of Deleddi’s work in 1916. They talked about it Paola Bertoloneprofessor of entertainment disciplines at La Sapienza University of Rome, Claudia Gianetto of the Turin Cinema Museum and literary criticism and teaching Angela Guisowho told the story of the relationship between the author and the “Divine” Eleonora Duse. The relationship between the two women, the genesis of the novel – “one of the greatest pieces of writing in recent years,” he wrote Ugo Ojetti, of the film and Duse’s interpretative strength, fascinated the audience, made up of many women. It is not clear whether Deledda appreciated the performance of “Divina”, but there remains a letter in which the author, after having seen the film, wrote «Cenere is no longer the novel, now it is the film». The same Michela Murgiahas explained Angela Guisowas linked to the book and wrote a preface: she, who left behind many “soul children”, has dealt with a work that touches on this very theme.
Again women – to whom the AES dedicates a section of its events, “Reinas” – were protagonists in the Sardinian publishers’ stand, in pavilion 2 of the Lingotto: Eleonora d’Arborea, promulgator of the Carta de Logu, was described by historians Alessandro Soddu of the University of Sassari e Giovanni Serreli of the Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe of the CNR in an event in Ilisso. The day ended with a tribute to Mary Jacob, writer and essayist originally from Nuoro, who passed away last January. Naturalized Danish, she wrote several novels related to her homeland and her figure has been remembered by Annamaria Baldussi, Angela Guiso And Simonetta Castiapresident of AES.
The second day of the Salon, Friday 10 May, revolves around the big 12pm event in the auditorium, 1200 seats sold out for weeks, with the writer and medievalist Alessandro Barbero which will talk about the Middle Ages in Sardinia, starting from “The time of the Vandals and the Byzantines” and “The time of the Giudicati”. The event, in collaboration with Ilisso editions, also includes the participation of Sabrina Cisci of the Archaeological Superintendence of Cagliari, Rossana Martorelliprofessor of Christian and medieval archeology at the University of Cagliari and Alessandro Soddu. We return to the AES stand at 4pm with “Discovering the thousand-year island”, an innovative series on Sardinian archeology with the curator Tatiana Cossu and the editor Anna Pau (Ilyssus). From 5pm The art of being children of Luciana Satta with Simona Scioni and For my roots of Alessandro Zara with Maria Elena Sini (Carlo Delfino Editore). From 7pm Teachers of the unknown university of Bastiana Madau with Anna Pau
