“And they called it Vigata. Sicily in the heart” is the title of Pasquale Hamel’s book, published by Spazio Cultura Edizioni, which will be presented at 6pm on Wednesday 3 July in Piazzetta Bagnasco.
One of the events of the 2024 season proposed by the “Piazzetta Bagnasco” association which is animating one of the city’s social places by offering opportunities for meetings between the many players in the area, in synergy with the world of entrepreneurship, academia, art and of the third sector. A program created in collaboration with the Modus Vivendi bookshop and I Love Sicilia and with Cappadonia Gelati and Liberto Motisi flowers as sponsors.
.Talking with the author on Wednesday afternoon will be journalist Giovanni Pepi and professor Gabriella Maggio of the Circolo dei Lettori di Spazio Cultura. The publisher Nicola Macaione will be present at the meeting.
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THE BOOK
«A collection of stories – we read in the synopsis of the book – the result of memories, personal experiences or narratives handed down by relatives or friends of the author. Mostly, they are short profiles – almost extemporaneous sketches without pretension – over which the Pirandellian lesson hovers with hyperbolic episodes into the absurd. The protagonist is the eccentric, the different who breaks the norm without, however, this taking on the character of a scandal and which, rather, generates amazement and, in some cases, turns into a bitter life lesson. The environmental frame is decisive, a daily life marked by repetitive conventions of which, a thin veil of irony, present even when the tragic dominates the narrative, reveals the many contradictions by which it is crossed. Porto Empedocle, La Marina, Vigata, many names for a single place – but not only that – where many of these actors physically reside and where they cultivate their aspirations which are almost always frustrated by what they consider to be an irrational course of things. Lives suspended, mortified by the expectation of outcomes that are not always obvious, imbued with an annoying respectable morality which, apparently, cannot be done without. Appearance, because reality, a vermin of irrational instincts and passions, lies in the background tragically ready for the first good opportunity to come out in all its bitter crudeness.”
