6 kilometers is the distance a person can cover in an hour's walk on flat terrain, and for the writer and novelist Erri De Luca, traveling can only mean walking—like migrants, pilgrims, vagrants or smugglers who cross borders. For De Luca, all travel that is not on foot is a mere relocation in space. Our means of transportation are designed to go from A to B as fast as possible in a straight line. Yet real travel is when our attention is focused on all that lies between departure and arrival.
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Erri De Luca, the writer, journalist, translator, has worked a number of jobs, mainly as a builder, in Italy, France and Africa. He has taught himself Yiddish and Hebrew and has translated a few books of the Bible into Italian. He edited: Esodo/Nomi (1994), Giona/Ionà (1995), Kohèlet/Ecclesiaste (1996), Libro di Rut (1999), Vita di Sansone (2002), Vita di Noè/Nòah (2004) e L’ospite di pietra di Puškin (2005) published by Feltrinelli. His books include: Sulla traccia di Nives (Mondadori, 2006); Le sante dello scandalo (Giuntina, 2011); In nome della madre (2006), Almeno 5 (con G. Matino, 2008), Il giorno prima della felicità (2009), Il peso della farfalla (2009), E disse (2011), I pesci non chiudono gli occhi (2011), Il torto del soldato (2012), La doppia vita dei numeri (2012), Ti sembra il caso? Schermaglia fra un narratore e un biologo (con P. Sassone-Corsi, 2013) published by Feltrinelli. The book Il turno di notte lo fanno le stelle inspired the movie directed by Edoardo Ponti (Feltrinelli, 2013).
Erri De Luca & i Dialoghi
2013
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