Wednesday 26 June 2024 at 7.00 pm at Colibrì bookcase of Milan (via Laghetto 9/11) Salvatore Toscano presents the book The fools and the scoundrels. Together with the author he intervenes Antonio Moresco; Free entry while places last.
The fools and the scoundrels it’s a anomalous novel. An extravagant secret diary. The chronicle of a relentless countdown that can lead to death or rebirth. A long, excruciating love letter. A funeral oration delivered after too many years of guilty delay. The story of a voice that fights to re-emerge from silence. The attempt to appropriate, through dozens of songs, books, films and works of art that punctuate the narrative, a syntax necessary to say what appears unspeakable. A certificate of faith in the saving abilities of writing.
Salvatore is about to turn the same age he was his father when he died: this unusual appointment with destiny pushes him to retrace the joys and sufferings of the past, to recall a story that has been removed for too long. The curious joke of the calendar leads him to cross, with nostalgia and analytical spirit, with obsessive commitment and candor, the infinite range of emotions that dot one’s existence, from childhood to adulthood adultto discover that «the farcical side of life is not in contradiction with the epic side, that we can be ridiculous and heroic at the same time».
