Presented last night, as part of the “ExtraVolume” section of the “A Tutto Volume” literary festival, the book “Ossigeno”, the autobiographical literary diary of the journalist Federica Molè. The event, hosted by director Andrea Traina, took place in the evocative gardens of the Antica Badia relais in Ragusa, and attracted an interested and participatory audience, eager to know the touching story of the relationship between the author and her father, Gianni Molè, well-known journalist who passed away due to covid.
Federica Molè, emerging author of this section of the festival, has decided to share with the public an intimate part of her life, marked by the premature death of her father in 2020. “Ossigeno”, published by Architype for the Kintsugi series, represents a tribute to a bond that the distance of death cannot break. As Gaetano Savatteri writes on the back cover, the book is the story of “a filial love that does not break even after the extreme laceration that marks the unbridgeable distance, but not the detachment”.
The book explores the complex relationship between father and daughter, made up of love, admiration, but also pressure and expectations. Federica describes how her father pushed her to always give her best. Literature, in this context, becomes a means of healing, a way to exorcise pain, sharing with readers an emotional journey made up of moments of joy and tragedy.
