Boccadasse and the “place of the heart” in the story of Fransibo. Gfrom Enovese, a skilled storyteller and dynamic storyteller, he puts his story together memoir a series of events and vicissitudes linked to his own life experience. In the guise of the protagonist of the story, Filippo, the author describes events that are sometimes daring, tender, picaresque or sentimental, based on a life path that has taken him around the world,
It is possible to meet Fransibo for four days, from Monday 1st to Thursday 4th July 2024, from 10 am to 8 pm, on Boccadasse squarefor a long time signs copies of the book A life that is not at all banal, to get to know this character and hear from his voice the stories and events that we can read in the book. The author chooses Boccadassefor this his national premierebecause he considers it the “place of the heart“, the place that has always brought the enchantment of Genova, which enchants the Genoese and visitors. It is also the place of the deepest reflections of Philip, the protagonist of the story.
Who Fransibo meets his readers, to bring them into the heart of the novel of his life, to make each one relive the events he describes and see Genoa and Boccadasse protagonists of his vicissitudes and his dreams. Because life, sometimes, is not “trivial at all”.
There are normal lives, which are basically similar, and lives that are a little special like Filippo’s. Who saves his parents’ lives before he is even born, because he slows down the race of his pregnant mother and the whole family towards a shelter hit by a bomb (Galleria delle Grazie massacre, Genoa, 1942), and sees the light under the fire of German rifles. Who, due to the events linked to the political clashes of 1960 in Genoa, takes refuge in Paris and there meets the incomparable Mariù. Who comes close to success in football, but – also thanks to his father’s concreteness – passionately embraces the job of his dreams. Ligurian by sea, Filippo gives birth to a daughter and remains faithful to his duties as a father even when women, passion or feelings would like to distract him. The story of a man master of his own destiny, who at eighty years old still awaits new adventures on the sunny beach of his beloved Boccadasse.
Fransibo (pseudonym) lived the twentieth century to the full: a young rebel, political activist, professional footballer, inventor, entrepreneur, he has always loved women, his Genoa and Liguria, and has a great desire to tell stories.
