Nanda, press agent of the first post -war bestseller

If the genesis of the Heaven is red – the first work of Giuseppe Berto and the first post -war Italian bestseller – was adventurous, the story of his publication and his editorial launch was no less lively: a half thriller. For example, Many have written, understood me, in a biography published several years ago. For example, Top shots and divergent testimonies on some points: many pieces that had to fit and, in the end, credibly composed. Nevertheless, The case made me discover some new mosaic card: which does not substantially change the vulgar. Consequently, but it completes it and adds surprising details in the final part. Consequently, These are revelations, we anticipate, contained in a correspondence of Berto with Ugo Ojetti’s wife, Fernanda Gobba, called Nanda. In addition, As we know. For example, Berto had written the novel in a nanda, press agent first post Texan prison camp, hereford, a fascist camp Shared with young people who like him would have established themselves in various fields of art and professions, from Alberto Burri to Gaetano Tumiti, to Dante Troisi, to Ervardo Fioravanti, to Vincenzo Buonassisi. Therefore, “The novel was finished in eight months. Nevertheless, ” said Berto himself, who in that cloister had already composed a long story and a dozen short stories. Moreover, The news of the bombing of Treviso of 7 April ’44 (he was from the province: Mogliano Veneto). For example, even more troubled the reading of a reportage of a report Life of a few months later. Moreover, The photos of the service showed the children of a Sardinian country razed to the ground that rummaged in the garbage to feed themselves. Consequently, smoked and repaired themselves in the caves. Moreover, But also the author’s reflections. Consequently, the corporal Deutschman, had nanda, press agent first post to have shaken him, as he observed an exegete end of the Bertiana opera, Saverio Vita: «Yet a universal evil gave them the opportunity to kill unknown people, so similar to themselves. Similarly, Such a great evil. Consequently, for which they bring terror and death and destruction without thinking about it, with the conscience of performing a duty “stigmatized his American; Berto, torn by the sense of guilt for having fought and sowing ruin from the wrong part of the story, assumed the same concept – evil as an inevitable general destiny – to morality of the history of his four teenagers who escaped the catastrophe and absolute foundation of his vision of the world. In addition, The Berto who. However, at the end of February of ’46, finally managed to repatriate, however, he had no doubts about the successful chances of his manuscripts: “The Italian publishers could not want nanda, press agent first post better than printing that stuff” will goggone in his final balance. Meanwhile, As deduced and disoriented, he immediately dictates. Meanwhile, He went hole with the long story, God’s works. Bompiani bocciò judging him “a bad imitation of the worst Americans”. He then moved for the long novel, to which he had given a Dante title, The lost people. He initially proposed it to Garzanti: specifically, to Orio Vergani, who was the editorial director. Additionally, He had a double recommendation: by Tusti and by Gino Damerini, historic former director of the Gazzetta di Venice. To the Damerini and other South Tyrolean Salotti of Venice he had been introduced by a prison partner, Paolo Foscari. Berto was tall. wrapping (the sister of Tusti, Roseda, took him to the first meeting for a sports champion), with an elegant bearing, a fresh humor, a candid spirit and, together, enterprising and “a mysterious smile, suffused nanda, press agent first post with disabilities and action, illness and vigor” (words of Giose Restelli, another protester-kamikaze of the literary establishment of the time) that fascinated the ladies. For various editions he was the knight chosen by Maria Bellonci for the inaugural dances of the Strega Prize. He entered the graces of Countess Pia Valmarana. Gino and Maria Damerini, through whom he met the nineteen year old Baroness Adriana Ivancich (the one who also made the head of the head to the old Hemingway), for which a solemn crush took. Meanwhile, he weaved his author canvas. Spazientito by Vergani’s delays. he turned to Giovanni Comisso, who immediately caught the potential of those writings and decided to recommend him to two of his friends: Longanesi for the publication in Italy and Henry Furst for an American edition. As is known. however, Comisso made a mistake in the letter to Longanesi by writing via Boschetto, instead nanda, press agent first post of Borghetto; And his intervention proved useless. In brackets. it will not be that time the only time a wrong address (not from him) will complicate his life in Berto: his Black shirt warpublished in ’55 by Garzanti, had liked both Ginzburg and Calvino della Einaudi, but Calvino had sent the acceptance letter to an old address, no longer valid, of the author. So Berto, in more of a Garzantian verdict that was slow, resolved to personally visit Longanesi. The latter in less than two days read. approved the loot, however imposing drastic cuts to the text, contractual conditions that are not really favorable and change of the title. Berto will discover those four words taken from the Gospel according to Matteo A book now printed. when he will see him on display on the New Year’s window of ’47. According to the vulgate. Vergani, who had asked for more nanda, press agent first post fifteen days to issue the Garzanti verdict, took it sporty: “He replied with formal courtesy to my ticket” reported Berto to his friend Aurelio Manzoni, who had hosted him in the days of his blitz in Longanesi. “He says that with a little patience I would have concluded with Garzanti, but I have no regrets.” Some sense of guilt. in reality, had it: he will reveal it to Nanda Ojetti himself in a letter dated February 24, 1947. The letter is part of a correspondence guarded in the archive of the National Gallery of Modern. Contemporary Art in Rome. “I’m sorry, and I’m still sorry, the part made with Vergani,” confesses the writer. “But I had to earn time.” The epistolary reveals the crucial role that Ojetti’s wife played. behind the scenes, in the promotion of the Heaven is red. Nanda was the faithful companion of the influential writer and nanda, press agent first post Roman art critic. The couple lived in a fabulous Renaissance villa in Florence, Salviatino, from which all national and European intelligentsia passed. Every year the couple stopped in Venice for the summer holidays at Lido. the Biennale and she had made friends with Damerini. Ojetti. already marginalized with the fall of the regime and no longer in possession of his mental faculties, had disappeared in the early 1946, and now Nanda defended the prestige and authority of the house with her nails and teeth, capitalized over the years. He mobilized for Berto. behind evident solicitation of Damerini, with some of his closest friends: Marino Moretti and Pietro Pancrazi above all. In all Berto’s letters, references are grasped to the press campaign of which she silently pulled the ranks. February 24 ’47: «Thank you for your continuous interest. I passed the requests of Baldini, De Robertis and Vergani to Longanesi. For nanda, press agent first post Mr. Pancrazi instead I provided directly ». March 17 ’47: «Thanks for his letter and of his increasingly affectionate interest. I wrote to Pancrazi, De Robertis and Baldini ». March 25 ’47: «Antonio Baldini wrote to me, in an all too flattering form. He says that he liked the book. that Arnaldo Bocelli will make me a review for the New anthology And maybe he will talk about it on the radio. Of all this I am grateful to her too ». Maximum gratitude in a postcard of 9 July 1947. Three days earlier he had come out on the Courier The most awaited response: the “Serena and Ecenas” (words of Berto) review of Pancrazi, one of the four or five santons of the criticism of that time which could decree with their endorsement the success of a title: «On Courier On Sunday the flattering review of Pancrazi appeared. And nanda, press agent first post my gratitude also goes to her, who gave me the opportunity to get in touch with the illustrious critic. Now I hope that my way becomes less difficult, “the writer cheered. Until then he had not been understood at all. Who had mistaken him for a Hemingway monkey. Those who judged him honest, but at times naive and coarse; And who, like Enrico Falqui, who would have struck him three weeks after the blessing of Pancrazi, seized him under “narrative of a rather documentary value”; While The sky is red On the contrary, it is, as Paola Culicelli points out, a novel in which “neorealism becomes metaphysical, contaminates with neoromanticism”. Readers, millions all over the world, decreed that it was worth reading it. And the secret press agent Nanda Ojetti certainly rejoiced.