Public talk to introduce the book “La Frontiera”

CULTURAL CONTAMINATIONS

Public talk to introduce the book “La Frontiera” with the author Alessandro Leogrande

There is an imaginary line, yet very real, a not healed wound, a place for everyone and no one of which everyone, invisibly, is part: it is the border that separates and unites the North of the world – democratic, liberal and civilized –  with the South – poor, bitten by war, backward and undemocratic. It is on the edge of this border that the Great Game of the contemporary world is played. This threshold is elusive, indefinable, non-material: writing comes close to it via approximations, attempts, advancing in an explored environment, where migrations and rejections occur, where it is fought a battle to live or die. Leogrande leads us on board of the ship Mare Nostrum operation and fish the words from the seabed in which they got stuck and hidden.