The 16th appointment of the Quasimodo Literary Café in Modica will be dedicated to the Agrigento writer Salvatore Indelicato, which will be held on Saturday 8 June, at 5.30 pm at the Palazzo della Cultura, as part of the 2024 cultural season.
We will talk about the story book Mannalawhich will be presented by Giuseppe Macauda, poet of Caffè Quasimodo, and Liliana Arrigo, President of the Jury of the Pirandello Festival in Agrigento.
During the evening, which will be moderated by Rosanna Giannone, member of Quasimodo, the actors of the “I Caturru” Theater Company of Scicli, Giovanna Drago and Giovanni Blundetto, will recite passages from the book, while Alessia Belitende will perform musical interludes on the piano.
“The book Mannalà – says Domenico Pisana – is a collection of stories with an interweaving of ‘history, memory, landscape, streets, courtyards and alleys’ rooted in the places where the author was born and raised in the fifties and sixties of the twentieth century, in particular Piazza Madonna degli Angeli, place of reference to the book by the writer from Agrigento, from which the title Mannalà is taken, a contraction of the name Madonna degli Angeli.
The collection makes the reader breathe the smell of Agrigento land and sincere feelings, the author’s ties with the landscape strongly rooted in the experience of his heart; the simplicity of the narrative structure, based on microcosms of life, stories and traditions with the ethno-anthropological flavor of a now disappeared Agrigento, is accompanied by the essentiality of the narration, characterized by the use of a lexicon with symbolic references and a linguistic fabric expressive and enriched with images that reverberate in the dimension of nostos, self-irony and melancholy”.
Salvatore Indelicato is one of the most relevant writers in the Agrigento area as well as the author of several theatrical works aimed at children, including a theatrical adaptation of the novel “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint – Exupéry and the brilliant comedy “The school inspection ”.
He has around a hundred articles published in local newspapers and in the magazine “Kouros”, in which he dealt with the history of Agrigento and theater criticism, with interviews with national entertainment personalities. An article by him on the ancient hermitage of Quisquina was taken up by the writer Andrea Camilleri in his book “The sheep and the Shepherd”, Ed. Sellerio.
He has published two novels: “I would have been born there”, 2003, which was awarded the “Premio Palcoscenico 2004” and “Just for love”, 2011, with which he won the XIII Edition of the “Ignazio Buttitta” literary prize – novels section. He also has a poetic anthology to his credit “Drops of love”, 2018, in which he collects all his emotions on a love theme and with which he ranked 2nd in the XXI Edition of the “I. Buttitta” in 2019.
Save
