Public meetings and literary-cultural debates. In the background, the squares, historic buildings and alleys of the city of Modicain the Ragusa area, where the literary festival Scenarios. The look and the storyorganized by Garibaldi Theater Foundation and the superintendent Tonino Cannatatogether with Mondadori Bookstore Of Piera Ficili. Until July 28thevery weekend, the most important and discussed authors of 2024 will alternate. After the opening with Alessandro Baricco – in dialogue on his latest novel Abel (Feltrinelli) with the young emerging Catanian Mattia Insolia -, the appointment is for Friday 28 June at 9pm, when Paolo Mieli will analyze The authoritarian century; followed, Saturday 29 June at 7.30pm, by Valentina Romani with his debut book Look, it’s true and, Sunday 30 June at 9pm, from Giovanni Grasso and the impossible relationship told by the novel No one sees love.
The following week will open on Thursday with Siegfried Ranucci and its The choice (Bompiani); Friday 5 July Dario Maltese will tell about Les Italiens (Rizzoli), with the lives of illustrious Italians who chose to live in France, while Sara Doris he will remember his father, through the human side of the well-known banker, with his own Ennio, my father (Piemme). Saturday 6 July Serena Bortone will present his novel Close to you so sweet (Rizzoli), while Sunday 7 July will be dedicated to crime fiction: Piergiorgio Pulixiin the bookstore with For an hour of love (Rizzoli) will be in dialogue with Massimo Carlotto and his Trudy (Einaudi).
The following weekend will bring literature together cinema and theatre. From Friday 12 July to Sunday 14 the following will alternate: Ludovico Tersigniactor and presenter, with See you beyond the horizon (Rizzoli); Stefano Massini will analyze one of the most discussed texts in history through his Mein Kampf. From Adolf Hitler (Einaudi); the actor Vinicio Marchioni will present his written creation, Come to me night (Rizzoli). The following weekend, the protagonists will be women and philosophy. We start on Thursday 18th July with All the beauty that awaits us (Feltrinelli), to continue on Friday with Selvaggia Lucarelli and his latest book The Pandora’s Box. Rise and decline of the Ferragnez”(Paper First). Saturday 20 July Donatella Di Pietrantonio will talk about the women victims of violence, protagonists of his The fragile age (Einaudi), while Sunday 21 July Maura Gancitano and Andrea Colamedici (Tlon) will bring on stage thePraise of idleness and the slacker.
The finale is scheduled for Sunday 28 July with Luca Bizzarri – actor, writer and host – who will present the tics of contemporary men and women contained in his They don’t have a friend (Mondadori). An edition full of ideas, presented by the illustration created by Giovanni Robustelli, figurative artist who focuses his work on the grammar of the sign. Entrance to each event is free, subject to availability.
