Interviews

As a writer, you start at 36 years with your collection Racconti per sax tenore (Stories for tenor sax).  Someone would say it is a late onset. But, is there an age to start? Let me say that publishing my first book at 36 was a clever moving action to avoid being catalogued, with all the rhetoric that usually goes...

Moni Ovadia, ever kind and amenable, agreed to let us interview him on two separate occasions. We conclude here the publication of the interview that began in the previous issue. Do you think that in Italy we may eventually re-appropriate our culture? I think so. Once we have reached rock bottom. Obviously, this time we haven’t understood how deep that bottom...

Moni Ovadia proved to be most helpful and friendly; he agreed to let us interview him on two separate occasions, in between his other commitments. He actively participated in the discussion, becoming quite impassioned, and no topic was left unanswered. This interview, unpublished until now, was collected between April 29th and May 3rd 2009; that is why some questions are...

Nathalie Bauer, After a PhD in History, in 1990 her translations begin to be published, and she early becomes one of the most important French translators from Italian (among the authors she transposed there are Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg, Paolo Giordano, Margaret Mazzantini, Antonio Pennacchi). In 2000 she authors her first novel Zena, followed by Le feu, la vie...

The impossible interviews You are considered the father of Italian Neorealism. What is the origin of Neorealism? Neorealism was born, unconsciously, as vernacular cinema; it later became fully self-aware of the human and social problems in the war and post-war periods. So what is the real Neorealism? I have always pushed myself to say that, for me, Neorealism was just a moral position. What...