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Reality provided the seeds. I imagined the rest.
In Other Words is different. Almost everything in it happened to me.
It remains my most intimate book but also the most open.
I continue, as a writer, to seek the truth, but I don’t give the same weight to factual truth.
I consider it an authentic book, because it’s sincere, honest.
Knowing her work, I feel reassured, less alone. I think I’ve met a guide, maybe even a companion, on this path.
Even a novel drawn from reality, faithful to it, is not the truth, just as the image in the mirror is not a person in flesh and blood.
remains, that is, an abstraction, no matter how realistic, how close to the facts.
“in a book everything is true, nothing is true.”
The decision to read only in Italian led me to take this new creative path. Writing comes from reading.
Even if I remain half blind, I can see certain things more clearly.
feel more centered even if I’m adrift. I feel more at home, in spi...
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This book leads me to a crossroads. It force...
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I can’t predict the future. I prefer to enjoy this moment,
an indigenous book, born and raised here in Italy, even if the author was not.
In Other Words will now have an identity independent of me.
I hope that every book in the world belongs to everyone, or to no one, nowhere.
