Almost a year has passed since the death of Michela Murgia, a lucid and passionate intellectual, a combative figure in Italian literature and publishing. Starting from that 10th August, the day on which the writer passed away at the age of 51, there have been many demonstrations of affection and initiatives designed to keep alive the spark of a woman who was certainly outside the box. These include the release of a new posthumous book, in which the main themes that guided the creative research and thought of this protagonist of contemporary Italian culture are retraced and explored in a “definitive” way. THE NEW BOOK OF MICHELA MURGIA Published by Mondadori for the Strade Blu series, the book is entitled Remember me as you like (in the opening image a detail of the cover), and retraces the “ten lives” of the writer, starting from the story that the author told of herself Beppe Cottafavi, his editor and friend, on the eve of his death. There are many, varied but certainly similar, topics that Murgia addresses in the over three hundred pages of the volume. Queer love affairs and relationships, Oristano matriarchs who give out five-colored rosaries to save every continent, madonnas with wigs, violent men and dreamy masters, lessons in the Sardinian language and Korean culture, in biblical exegesis and magical writing, in active politics and cultural militancy: each of these themes is observed from the writer’s radical perspective, making the publication the “definitive testament” of a woman “who crossed the world running barefoot, burning each stage brightly”. Out next April 30th, Remember Me How vi pare is also enriched by four splendid rediscovered stories and other lost texts that the author has chosen and indicated between one memory and another.
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