Tomorrow, at 5.30 pm, at Le Fabbriche (via San Francesco, 1 – Agrigento) there will be the presentation of the book “The turning point” by Calogero Pumilia, with a preface by Gaetano Savatteri. The event, organized by Le Fabbriche together with Ande (Agrigento section), and with the patronage of the Valle dei Templi Archaeological and Landscape Park and the Municipality of Agrigento, will see the greetings of Carola De Paoli, president of Ande, who will coordinate the meeting, and the interventions of the journalist Felice Cavallaro and the writer Beniamino Biondi. The author, Calogero Pumilia, will conclude before the usual signing of copies.
The text tells like a memoir the time lived by the Author between his birth in 1936 and the moment in which he crossed the door of Montecitorio for the first time as a deputy, in 1972. Born in the “small world” of an inland town Sicilian who for him was “a paradigm for reading and interpreting the great world” and baptized with the same name as his grandfather, Calogero, according to the best wishes, would also have inherited his profession as a blacksmith, sheltered from any change as happened forever. “The turning point” which radically changed the lives of men and women, represents the awareness, precisely of that change, of the “extraordinary path accomplished and with the conviction that it would continue in an unstoppable way” in a “relatively long time”. short” who together with him “had changed with a speed that history had never recorded” The Author’s gaze on people and things has grown and changed, paying homage to the countless men and women met and their stories that that time are the mirror and the engine and which today represent the memory not only of Pumilia himself or of his town but of the very time he lived through. The turning point, which healed the tragic wounds of the war, almost completely erased peasant civilisation, led to the discovery of fundamental human rights; the turning point, which has not completely removed ancient vices of the island’s reality, is also that of a Weltanschauung which from an eternal and immobile present confined to the here and now expands and results in a continuous transformation that includes everything, opening towards hope and the extraordinary commitment of civil society.
