Via Lettera - Interview https://vialettera.eu/en/tags/interview en DOMENICO AGASSO: PEOPLE NEED SINCERE SUPPORT AND SIGNS OF HOPE FOR A BETTER FUTURE https://vialettera.eu/en/news/domenico-agasso-people-need-sincere-support-and-signs-hope-better-future <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://vialettera.eu/sites/default/files/agasso_Pope_photo_0.jpg" width="1280" height="853" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Dear Mr Agasso, your latest collaboration with Pope Francis, the book-interview ‘Dio e Il mondo che verra’ is just about to be published in Bulgaria. How was this book created?</span></i></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 150%; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">The idea was born after an interview with Pope Francis that we published in La Stampa in March 2020 right in the eye of the sanitary storm. On this occasion the Pope had emphasized that people ‘are crying and suffering. All of them. We can only get out of this situation together as a single united community.’ This is how we came to the idea about a book that we could publish at a later stage without dwelling too much on the present but trying to have a peek beyond the pandemic, looking for our contribution to the recovery period after the crisis that only came on top of the already existing problems, related to social injustice, lack of equality, selfishness and economic interests</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">.</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> A book that can transcend the immediate drama of the coronavirus, to the world of the future with faith, strength, hope and courage. We prepared it in the course</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">of several personal meetings and many phone calls, mostly towards the end of 2020</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Just when the world and Italy in particular were going through their darkest hour due to the corona virus pandemic, Pope Francis came up with this profound and optimistic outlook for the future of humanity. What was the idea that really stuck with you after working on the text of the book?</span></i></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">The main pillars on which mankind, communities, cities and regions that were affected by the pandemic need to step on are hope, environmental protection and solidarity. Pope Francis appeals for a sustainable development model. He encourages the young people to never stop fighting for their dreams, even in our hard times, and to become the messengers of ‘knowledge, love and mercy’. And most of all to have the unshakeable faith that even when we think that God has given up on us, in reality ‘God is with us, close to us and in the right moment he will reach out and save us.’</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Do you think that the Catholic church fulfilled its mission to guide and console during the pandemic? Did it have an adequate response in these testing times?</span></i></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 150%; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">In the Covid-19 pandemic the Catholic church literally and virtually came out of the altar and through its priests who held mass alone on the internet tried to reach out to people. Many parishes that were largely unfrequented before, managed to attract a lot more people during the weeks ‘of the dark shadows that thickened and fell on our piazzas, streets and cities’, as Pope Francis pointed out. Today the clergy can and should turn into gold that spiritual progress and the increased sensitivity of the people to the miracle of life</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">. </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Now</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">the</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">challenge</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">for</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">the</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">church</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">is</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">to</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">acquire</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">a</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">more</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">constant</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">and</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">comforting</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">presence</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">in</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">the</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">daily</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">life</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">of</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">everyone</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">, </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">which</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">is</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">characterized</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">not</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">only</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">by</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">the on-going</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">health</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">concerns</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">that</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">we</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">all</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">have</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">but</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">also</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">by</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">economic</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">and</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">work</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">-</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">related</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">problems</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">.</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> People need sincere support</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">. They need someone who would listen to them, welcome them, support them and give signs<span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span>and words of hope for a better future.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Having worked and communicated a lot with Pope Francis, how is he different from his predecessors, what sets him apart?</span></i></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 150%; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Every pope has his own character, his own background, personal experience, personal story and sensibility and every pope’s term of service should be interpreted within its specifics and its historical context. I can characterize Pope Francis as a credible leader who exudes assurance, faith and simplicity</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">.</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> His ability to empathize with people is extraordinary</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">. </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">His</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">humane</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">attitude</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">is</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">engaging</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">and</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">exciting</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">. </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">He</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">is</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">strong</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">-</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">willed</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">in</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">his</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">work</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">and</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">in</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">his</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">efforts</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">to</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">respond</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">to</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">the</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">needs</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">of</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">those</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">around</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">him</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">, </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">to</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">speak</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">to</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">everybody</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">, </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">to</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">help</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">the</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">weak</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">, </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">to</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">comfort</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">the</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">desperate</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">, </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">to</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">build</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">bridges</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">and</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">break</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">down</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">walls</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">, </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">to</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">be</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">close</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">to</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">everyone in spirit or in person</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">, </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">especially</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">to</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">those</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">living</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">in</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">pain</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">and</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">grief</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">. </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">He thinks most of all for the poor, those who come last, the distant, the abandoned ones</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">.</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> Pope Francis preaches and practices the principle of human fraternity, generosity and peace. He is always ready to take decisions that can uproot the old and weary habits and open wide the windows and the doors of the church by preserving the traditions and the roots of the church in order to bring new, fresh and clean air in</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">.</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> With his behavior and his actions he teaches us how to make the best of the time on earth that we’ve been given and to spread the message of God through dialogue, good deeds, joy and tenderness. And fun</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Pope Francis visited Bulgaria in 2019 and received a very warm welcome from ordinary people, both Catholics and Christian Orthodox. Did you accompany him on that visit and if so, what were your immediate impressions?</span></i></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 150%; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">I have a wonderful memory from Bulgaria and from Sofia from the days of Pope Francis’s visit in your amazing country, which the Pope named “The land of the encounter”. Bergoglio underlined that in the history of the Catholic church ‘also here in Bulgaria there were priests who have made a difference with the sanctity of their life</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">:</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> among them I like to recall my predecessor who you call ‘The Bulgarian Pope’, St John</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG"> ХХIII, </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">a saint whose memory is vividly alive in this country, where he lived in the period between</span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG"> 1925 </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">and </span><span lang="BG" style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" xml:lang="BG">1934</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">’</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">. Pope</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Francis</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">emphasized</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">that</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">St John XXIII’s ‘diplomatic</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">and</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">pastoral</span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">experience</span><span style="line-height: 150%; 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This was a wonderful apostolic visit.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="line-height: 150%;">What would be your message to Bulgarian readers for the New 2022? </span></i></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 150%; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">I believe that if we stick to the rules, made to protect us from the virus, without succumbing to despair or overblown fear, we will soon be able to come back to our normal or almost normal daily life. 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SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"<br /> Name="Table Grid 5"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"<br /> Name="Table Grid 6"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"<br /> Name="Table Grid 7"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"<br /> Name="Table Grid 8"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"<br /> Name="Table List 1"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"<br /> Name="Table List 2"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"<br /> Name="Table List 3"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"<br /> Name="Table List 4"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"<br /> Name="Table List 5"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"<br /> 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<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 4"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 4"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 4"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 4"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 4"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 4"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 4"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 4"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 4"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 4"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 4"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 5"/><br /> 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Locked="false" Priority="46"<br /> Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 1"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 1"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 1"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 1"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 1"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"<br /> Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 1"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"<br /> Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 1"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"<br /> Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 2"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 2"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 2"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 2"/><br /> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid 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THEY LIKE CONFUSION.’ https://vialettera.eu/en/news/douglas-rushkoff-%E2%80%98right-now-dictators-are-winning-they-confusion%E2%80%99 <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://vialettera.eu/sites/default/files/rushkoff_pic_0.jpg" width="760" height="427" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Mr Rushkoff, your book ‘Present Shock’ is one of your signature books. I first heard the term ‘digiphrenia’ some years ago and then found out it was one of the terms you coined in this book. When did you first realize we need to put a name on this current state of existence?</p> <blockquote><p>I felt the need to create a name for this phenomenon in order to distinguish it from the idea of "information overload." People keep looking at the technology - the thing outside themselves - rather than the experience of being human amidst all the technology. I'm less concerned with information than I am with human awareness. And the experience of the net has less to do with information than with existence. We are trying to exist in more than one place, as more than one being, at the same time. There is more than one instance of myself, running in different places. The word "digiphrenia" helps people relate or nod along with that particular kind of craziness.</p> </blockquote> <p>The internet is a relatively new phenomenon in terms of age but it has already made a dramatic impact on our lives. What were your initial expectations about it back in the 1990’s? What do we know now that we didn’t know back then?</p> <blockquote><p>My initial expectations in the early 1990s was for a profound upscaling of human experience. I thought we would come to understand ourselves as part of a big, collective brain. 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They forget the terrible thing he did yesterday, because he does another terrible thing today. It's like living in a weird prison camp or psychological torture experiment. This is much worse present shock than I was describing in the book - though it operates the same way.</p> <p>So while the book was concerned mostly with the way the digital media environment collapsed time, now this collapse is happening everywhere. So the book really did explain the moment we are in right now. It would have been impossible to write it at this moment, because we are too far gone. But that book was written in the last moment where we could have chosen something else.</p> </blockquote> <p>We live in the teenage years of the XXI century. What are your impressions of the young people growing up right now? Is it easy to be a millennial?</p> <blockquote><p>Well, millennials are all in the 20s and 30s. It's not so hard for them. The teenagers, gosh, they have it hard because everyone older than them is saying the world is ending. They are used to the idea of getting shot in school. They think of Donald Trump as president of the United States. My impression is that they understand their elders really didn't care about them. They have very little respect for us. I don't know if they believe they can do better at this point. But they certainly don’t think we did a good job.</p> <p>I don't know how easy or hard it is to be a young person, now. They've got smartphones, which makes life much much harder. It's so hard for them to find coherence, when there's a multi-trillion-dollar industry trying to control them through those little screens. But they are doing their best. I still have hope for them.</p> </blockquote> <p>Are we already in a tug-of-war between humans and technologies? Who is setting the pace? 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class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/en/tags/interview" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Interview</a></div></div></div> Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:24:55 +0000 admin 101 at https://vialettera.eu https://vialettera.eu/en/news/douglas-rushkoff-%E2%80%98right-now-dictators-are-winning-they-confusion%E2%80%99#comments JESSICA ADAMS: FROM 2023 EUROPE IS REDRAWN https://vialettera.eu/en/news/jessica-adams-2023-europe-redrawn <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://vialettera.eu/sites/default/files/Jessica%20the%20Leo%20in%20Parka%20January%202016_0.jpg" width="1080" height="720" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Jessica, your book ‘Astrology 2020’ is now published in Bulgarian. What is the most important thing that Bulgarian readers should know about it? </em></p> <blockquote><p>Bulgaria is actually one of the old astrology countries of the world, having been strongly influenced by the Romans. Our astrology today comes from Ancient Rome and was exported to Bulgaria some 2000 years ago.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>You make the distinction between modern and traditional astrology in your book. Are there many astrologers like you out there using all planets and asteroids from the Roman gods family? And how did this approach change your work?</em></p> <blockquote><p>Very few astrologers use the whole Roman/Latin family tree of astrology but I would not dream of writing my horoscope features for Vogue, Elle or Cosmopolitan without it. I began to do this in 2006 after astronomers promoted Ceres (formerly an asteroid) to a planet. </p> </blockquote> <p><em>I have been following your astrological work for many years now and I have to say that I was amazed when your prediction on Brexit came true. Tell us more about that moment, how did you experience it through the responses on your site?</em></p> <blockquote><p>Thank you. I had British readers pouring onto my website in the early hours of the morning, from all over the country, who were not only shocked by the accurate prediction, but also the fact that I had foreseen electrical storms and lighting too.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>Bulgarians might be baffled by your predictions about the future of EU and the euro. Having seen the star chart of modern Bulgaria, how do you think these developments may affect us?</em></p> <blockquote><p>The European Union will break up and Bulgaria will be able to choose which new collection of other nations she wishes to join. It begins at Christmas 2020 and from 2023 Europe is redrawn.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>In your book you encourage people to read and interpret their own star charts. Most people would probably find it very challenging. What is your advice? Where to start from?</em></p> <blockquote><p>I am teaching astrology for beginners from January 2019. Free to Premium Members! The course will run for 12 months.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>What is the role of the astrologer?     </em></p> <blockquote><p>History repeats and astrologers noticed. We can learn from the same cycles over time, even if it was 2000 years ago (aspects of the Roman Empire will repeat from 2020). Time is a very strange business as any scientist will tell you. Astrologers use the alternative timekeeping of circular or ‘round’ time which means we can predict the future and see it in terms of the past. That’s incredibly useful for people with love, money, friendship, work, family and special goals.</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><em>What are your plans for 2018? Are you working on a new book?</em></p> <blockquote><p>I am working on Pamela’s Tarot, a book about Pamela Colman Smith.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>What did you know about Bulgaria before we started working on the Bulgarian edition of ‘Astrology 2020’?</em></p> <blockquote><p>My friend Jo is a perfume author and expert (Jo Fairley, based in Hastings, Great Britain) and as I was house-sitting for her, I was reading a great deal about Bulgaria and her famous roses. 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class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/en/tags/interview" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Interview</a></div></div></div> Tue, 30 Jan 2018 08:10:12 +0000 admin 95 at https://vialettera.eu https://vialettera.eu/en/news/jessica-adams-2023-europe-redrawn#comments In our times Marie Antoinette would have been admired like Lady Diana https://vialettera.eu/en/news/our-times-marie-antoinette-would-have-been-admired-lady-diana <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://vialettera.eu/sites/default/files/Craveri_2014_FMColombo_1.jpg" width="2048" height="1367" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Mrs Craveri, in ‘Mistresses and Queens’ you have made a collection of portraits of the most famous queens and mistresses in the French court. In the epilogue you explain that this book was born from the articles you wrote for an Italian newspaper. Tell us more about the origin of the book. What made you write it? </em></p> <blockquote><p>I was asked by the Italian daily newspaper <em>‘La Repubblica’</em>, where I have been contributing for many years in the culture section, to write a series of portraits of famous French women, which would be of interest for the wider audience and as recently there had been some interesting new biographies of French queens (for instance, two of them dedicated to Marie Antoinette – one by the English biographer Antonia Fraser and another one by the French historian Simone Bertiere) I decided to create a gallery of portraits of queens and mistresses and show how their stories are intertwined. The series of articles had a great success and as early as the end of that summer I received offers from three different publishers to put them together in a book. I accepted the offer of Adelphi, the publishing house I have always worked with and I was keenly aware of the difference between writing an article for a newspaper and writing a historical research.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>There is a lot to learn from your book about the female predicament in the Middle Ages. Most of these ladies were at the same time pawns and factors in politics, arts, etc. Who are their equivalents today?</em></p> <blockquote><p>I don’t think there is any parallel because the historical context is completely different today. In France during the Old Regime as well as in the rest of Europe women obeyed the authority of men. They could not make their own decisions, regardless if it was about marriage or retreating to monastery, they could not manage their own property, let alone perform any public duties. Their political influence could not be any other but covert and it depended largely on their ability to seduce and manipulate men. Nowadays the situation is radically different and women have full civil rights. However, they still have to cope with centuries of discrimination and prejudice but we only have to think about Hillary Clinton and Angela Merkel to appreciate how far we have reached.</p> <p>Let’s take, for instance, Marie Antoinette, condemned in her times by the public opinion for not fulfilling her royal duty, for disrespect for social protocol and for wanting to lead her own private life within the court, following pretty much the modern trends just like any other young woman from the aristocracy at that time. Today she would have been admired and worshipped like the late princess Diana.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>Why did you bring the queens and mistresses together into one discourse, under the same roof, so to speak? Why do you think they belong together rather than to two separate books?</em></p> <blockquote><p>Precisely because the queens and mistresses lived under the same roof – the Court – and they were fighting among each other for the reign in the heart of the monarch. However, the distance between them was huge. The queens had no say in their fate, their marriages were subject to the state’s interests and they would leave their countries very young, burning all bridges behind in order to learn the language, traditions and lifestyle of their royal husband and to provide an heir to the throne as soon as possible. In a country like France, where the Salic law excluded women as heirs to the throne, queens had no power at all, they entirely depended on the good will of their husbands and therefore their virtue had to remain intact. In difference to the queens, the royal mistresses were the makers of their own fate. In order to seduce the king it wasn’t enough for them to be pretty, glamourous, attractive. To beat the harsh competition, they also had to be intelligent, they had to earn the trust of their lover, become his confidantes, friends, consultants. But while even the most unpopular queens could not be ousted from the game, the mistresses lived in constant fear of losing the heart of the king and falling in disgrace or in case of the monarch’s death, they had to deal with the revenge of his widow or of their own cuckolded husband.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>My personal favourite is the story of Madam de Maintenon. Do you have your own personal favourites among these characters?</em></p> <blockquote><p>My favourite is the story of Caterina Medici. Even if for centuries she lived with her dark legend, presenting her as a demon, as a figure, dedicated to black magic, the widow of Henry III was actually a great sovereign. Educated, peace-loving, tolerant, the queen from Florence ruled on behalf of her underage or incapacitated sons over France that was exhausted from the religious wars that lasted for thirty years. Deprived of the power necessary to impose her will over the Catholics and the Huguenots, Caterina did not shy away from using all possible methods, including diplomacy, corruption, violence, treason, with the sole purpose of keeping the unity of the kingdom unscathed and Henry IV Bourbon, who otherwise detested her, was the first one to admit that she had been a ‘great king’.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>Mrs Craveri, you are a Professor in French Literature and your books are deeply embedded in French culture. They are also translated in many languages and enjoy great popularity around the world. What is your explanation of this deep and constant interest in French history?</em></p> <blockquote><p>It is because in the course of ХVII and ХVIII centuries the French society achieved a certain way of life that draw the admiration of Europe as a whole by establishing a model of communication that has not lost any of its glory to this day. And we are forever indebted to the great thinkers of ХVIII century – from Montesquieu to Voltaire and from Diderot to Rousseau – for the ideals of justice, tolerance, progress, equality, democracy that are the cornerstones of our modern society.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>You published a new book this year about the last libertines in France. Tell us more about your latest work.</em></p> <blockquote><p>‘The Last Libertines’ tells the story of seven aristocrats, whose days of youth coincide with the last good days of the French monarchy, when the elite in general believed that it could combine its way of life, based on privilege and caste spirit together with the new ideals of justice, tolerance and civil society, foregrounded in the philosophy of the Enlightenment. I chose the duke of Lauzun, the count and viscount of Ségur, duke de Brissac, count de Narbonne, the knight of Boufflerse, and the count of Vaudreuil mainly because of the epic nature of their adventures and affairs but also for their crystal clear understanding of the crisis of the Old Regime, even if they were the name and face of it, that did not prevent them from being provident about the world that was about to be born. At the same time they were unsurpassable in the art of seduction, their numerous intimate conquests among the ladies did not impede them from understanding libertinism in a much wider sense. For this reason I called them ‘the last libertines’ even if all of them sooner or later actually met the woman who would bind them for life.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>Traditionally, we always ask our authors what they know about Bulgaria. 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class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/en/tags/interview" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Interview</a></div></div></div> Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:12:31 +0000 admin 83 at https://vialettera.eu https://vialettera.eu/en/news/our-times-marie-antoinette-would-have-been-admired-lady-diana#comments JENNY VALENTISH: FOR EVERY SCENE IN THE NOVEL I AM DRAWING ON SOME REAL SCENARIO I'VE SEEN https://vialettera.eu/en/news/jenny-valentish-every-scene-novel-i-am-drawing-some-real-scenario-ive-seen <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://vialettera.eu/sites/default/files/Book%20and%20guitars.jpg" width="870" height="370" alt="" /></div><div class="field-item odd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://vialettera.eu/sites/default/files/old%20guys%20featured%20image.jpeg" width="857" height="507" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Jenny, your first novel ‘Cherry Bomb’ is about to be published in Bulgaria. Tell us briefly how you decided to write it and what it is about.</p> <blockquote><p>Cherry Bomb follows the sharp rise and plummet of a teenage band, The Dolls, as they get a record deal years before they’re equipped to handle it. The two frontwomen, Nina and Rose, are cousins, and are locked into a competitive battle. This is made more intense by the fact that they’ve had very different childhoods.</p> <p>I’ve worked in the music industry for 20 years, first as a publicist, then as a journalist, and my husband is a tour manager. So for every scene in Cherry Bomb I’m drawing on some real scenario I’ve seen.</p> </blockquote> <p>‘Cherry Bomb’ is pretty much focused on the music industry in Australia and the US. As a music journalist you obviously have a deep insight into this world. How was the novel accepted in these particular circles?</p> <blockquote><p>I was extremely cheeky: a few of the characters were based on real figures in the music industry. One of them – the CEO of the girls’ record label – acknowledged it must be based on him and said gruffly, “I admire people who take a risk.”</p> <p>I sent a draft of the book to four big musicians in Australia who have been in the industry a long time. They read it and gave me quotes for the cover – and they found it to be genuinely fly-on-the-wall.</p> </blockquote> <p>The protagonist, Nina Dall, is a fierce character and a rather unreliable narrator. Somebody had said that she is not exactly a person you want to come across in real life.  How did you create this character where talent and trouble go hand in hand?</p> <blockquote><p>Don’t you find the most poignant, most interesting artists have a mental illness, an addiction or both? Nina is a self-sabotaging character, so my rule of thumb was that any good situation she found herself in, she had to mess up somehow. The flipside is that gives her lots of material with which to write tragic songs.</p> </blockquote> <p>Nina and Rose are the product of our times and they seem to be obsessed with their image. What do you think, does image nowadays prevail over music?</p> <blockquote><p>Yeah, they’ve grown up with social media, and Nina gives the reader a tutorial on how to angle their body in photo shoots, what camera to use for selfies, etc. I feel sorry for young bands who feel obliged to be available on social media all the time. It kills the mystique!</p> </blockquote> <p>This is the first novel with a soundtrack that we publish. Did you compile the soundtrack as you were writing or later?</p> <blockquote><p>As I was writing it. The topic of the song tends to fit whatever disaster is happening to the band in that chapter. And more often than not the artist influenced one of the characters.</p> </blockquote> <p>If the ‘Dolls’ really existed, which real artist or band would they be like? Who has that teenage wild streak on the modern stage?</p> <blockquote><p>Well, the title Cherry Bomb is named after a Runaways song. The Runaways were fifteen when they started riffing, shagging and pill-popping their way around the world. The book is set in the current day, but also has a nod back to the 1990s and the fierce bands such as L7, Babes in Toyland and Hole, who really weren’t afraid to say what they thought. Nina and Rose are also based on a current band, but I’ll take their identity with me to the grave.</p> </blockquote> <p>Most Bulgarian readers would be surprised to discover that Australia has its own country music scene. Here, country music is always perceived of as coming from America. In your novel, country music is at the core of Australian tradition. Is it really the antidote to urban life and culture?</p> <blockquote><p>For a second I read that as Bulgaria has its own country music scene and my mind was blown. Yes, Australia has one that used to be uniquely Australian – it was highly romantic folklore about the ‘bush’ and doing it tough. In recent years it has become very homogenised and Americanised – and mainly about having a good time – but there are still a few artists carrying the torch for ‘proper country’.</p> </blockquote> <p>So, where do you think the ‘Dolls’ are heading at the end of the novel? Are they going to ride the wave of success or will they crash on the rocks?</p> <blockquote><p>Oh, they’d continue to be a car wreck for a while before exploding. Our protagonist, Nina, will definitely steer them off a cliff sooner or later. If I ever write a sequel, I’d like them going on tour supporting their aunt, who was big in the 1980s and about to hit the lucrative comeback trail. She was much more of a hellraiser than The Dolls could ever hope to be.</p> </blockquote> <p>And where are you heading to in 2016? Are you working on a new novel?</p> <blockquote><p>I’m glad you asked that, Diana. I’m writing a non-fiction book on women, drugs and alcohol. I’m traveling around to rehabs and universities, meeting experts on the topic. I’m afraid I consider myself to be one, too…</p> </blockquote> <blockquote><p>I’m tempted after this to write another music ‘novel’. My husband sees way more freaky things when taking bands on tour than I have seen as a journalist, and I’ve been collecting his stories.</p> </blockquote> <p>Finally, what do you know about Bulgaria? Any impressions, images, associations that come first to your head…</p> <blockquote><p>I love the Bulgarian State Radio &amp; Television Female Vocal Choir – they’re on my iPod. Australia’s roots performer John Butler is part-Bulgarian and named one album April Uprising. And who could forget Great Uncle Bulgaria in Paddington Bear. 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src="https://vialettera.eu/sites/all/modules/languageicons/flags/bg.png" width="16" height="12" alt="Български" title="Български" /></a></li> </ul> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:15:24 +0000 admin 77 at https://vialettera.eu https://vialettera.eu/en/news/jenny-valentish-every-scene-novel-i-am-drawing-some-real-scenario-ive-seen#comments FABIO GENOVESI: THERE ARE NO EMPTY AND SOLITARY SPACES BETWEEN US, CONTACT IS INEVITABLE https://vialettera.eu/en/news/fabio-genovesi-there-are-no-empty-and-solitary-spaces-between-us-contact-inevitable <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://vialettera.eu/sites/default/files/fortedeimarmi.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="" /></div><div class="field-item odd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://vialettera.eu/sites/default/files/SP_A0260_0.jpg" width="1280" height="960" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Fabio Genovesi speaks to us about his novel Nasluka (Esche Vive), about life out of the big city, about marginal characters, the power of translation and about his dream to visit the rock festival in Kavarna…</p> <p><em>Fabio, your novel Esche Vive has been published in </em><em>9</em><em> languages already. Via Lettera is publishing its Bulgarian edition, called Nasluka, in February 2015. This is also your Bulgarian debut as a writer because your other novels have not yet been translated into Bulgarian. </em><em>We chose this title because of the fishing and hunting connotations it has in Bulgarian and because of the message of good luck it carries. Let’s start with your message to your future Bulgarian readers. </em></p> <blockquote><p>Ciao to all of you. Reading a book is always a gift the reader makes to the author, a gift of time and attention, which are so precious in our lives. So I thank you for this gift.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>Tell us more about the novel and how it was accepted in Italy?</em></p> <blockquote><p>It’s the story of a teenager with just one hand, singing in a heavy metal band and working in a fishing shop, of a young woman who works in the local youth center where no young people go but only old timers, and of a kid who has a talent for anything he tries, but he hates winning because being the best only makes him lonelier and lonelier. They all miss something, and when they meet they first think they should hate each other, but then they find out life can be better together.</p> <p>When the novel came out, it had a slow start. Then after some months it began to sell and was read by many people, because the readers started spreading the word around, and I think this is the best way to support a book. Not marketing, not commercials, but the enthusiasm of the readers, which is the only thing I care about. And that’s why the novel is still selling very well now, because passion and enthusiasm are the best fuel for the life of a book, and for life in general.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>As embarrassing as it is, we have to admit that we are huge fans of the band Metal Devastation, especially of its frontman Fiorenzo, and we don’t even like heavy metal. Have you been in a band like that?</em></p> <blockquote><p>Of course. As a teenager I was a metal kid, and though I now listen to many kinds of music, I still love heavy metal and instead of wearing elegant suits and tie like many writers, I like going out with my Voivod or Sepultura t-shirts. When I was in high school, I used to play guitar in a death metal trio called Mortifer. We were different at school, we were outcasts, definitely not the popular boys and not “cool”, but we didn’t care, and I think we had a much more interesting youth than many of those boring fashion guys around.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>Most modern writers would choose the urban jungle for the setting of their novels. Why the countryside?</em></p> <blockquote><p>I think big cities all look the same, they offer a lot but I don’t care very much about it, and even though you live among a million people you can be very lonely. In small towns everything is stranger and more personal. And in small towns you have more time to get bored, and getting bored is the source of any good literature, music, art in general. Great books, great stories, great songs…it’s what you do trying to fill a void you have in your days. Stories, they bloom in the countryside, or the seaside where I live: since nothing really happens, you have to make up something, so you need fantasy, invention, love for storytelling. That’s why I prefer small towns. Even when I travel. When I go to the USA for example, I don’t care much about New York or Los Angeles, towns like Walla Walla or El Paso are much more appealing to me. There I can find the true essence of the country. It’s the same in Italy, and I’m sure it’s the same in Bulgaria, too.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>There are already many novels set in Tuscany or about Tuscany but this one is different. It is not the usual picture-perfect book aimed at attracting more tourists. Could this story be located in another part of Italy? </em></p> <blockquote><p>Maybe, or maybe not. Tuscany is a world famous tourist place, and if you close our eyes and think about it you immediately imagine the green hills, old but nice farmhouses, lines of cypress trees, renaissance, art, wine…but not all of Tuscany is like that. There are other sides of it which someone may consider uglier, but I think they’re just different. No touristic attractions, no history, no famous churches or museums. But there you may find the most interesting and weirdest characters. People of the plain country, people of the tuscan seaside, wilder guys, stranger guys. It’s probably the same with other regions, but Tuscany has this unique tendency: we like to laugh about things we shouldn’t laugh about. We make bad jokes, life here is a very serious and very funny thing at the same time. In Tuscany, if you see someone laughing at a funeral, it’s probably the dead man’s best friend: the more you love someone or something, the more you approach it with a smile on your face.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>Your novel addresses a whole range of problems in modern society and it exposes a lot of imaginary fears and obsessions. We are observing clashes of different generations, different cultures, different expectations. But somehow all these clashes have a positive effect on the characters in the novel. Do you believe it also applies to real life?</em></p> <blockquote><p>I think so. We live in an age of big differences. Far populations who had never got in touch before, now live side by side on the same street. And the same with the different generations. No empty and solitary spaces between us, we may be scared about this contact, but it’s unavodable, and many times the clash between different people results in a new, beautiful and strange unity. Of course it’s not easy, sometimes it’s a mess, it’s just violence and pain, but some other times it’s not. Life is unpredictable, that’s why it’s always worth living it.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>Your marginal characters are just as vivid and exciting as your protagonists. Are they taken from real life or are they more of a compilation of oddities from various people?</em></p> <blockquote><p>Marginal charcters are not marginal to me. I love watching people, strangers in bars, on the streets, strangers are everywhere and they are the best. Sometimes I use real people, some other times I just watch someone I don’t know and start to imagine what they may like and what they hate, what are their passions and hobbies, how their friends must look like…and at the end I have so many characters for my stories. You see a guy wearing a Texan cowboy hat in a post office in Poggibonsi, near Siena, and literature is your imaginary trip in his life, from the moment he was born to the one when he saw that hat and thought “Oh God, I would look so cool with that!”. How did he get there? A writer must live this trip in his mind and be able to write it in a novel.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>Fishing and cycling are major themes in the novel. Are these your personal favourite pastimes?</em></p> <blockquote><p>Among my favourite, yes. I’ve been a good biker for years, and I’ve been fishing since I was 4 years old. Seaside, rivers, lakes, ponds, any water is good water to me. When I have to build up a story I don’t like to stay indoors, at a table in the dark, I prefer to go out fishing all alone, with a pen and some paper. I try to catch fish, but maybe I catch some good ideas instead. In general, I like being outdoors. Many writers like libraries and dark dusty rooms, I think every second you spend inside is somehow a minor time. You can also read and write outside, anything can be done with the sky over your head instead of a roof. And it’s better for your ideas and feelings, they breathe more easily, more oxygen, more creativity.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>The love story in the novel is unusual but very credible. Have you ever met Tiziana in person?</em></p> <blockquote><p>Tiziana stands for all the girls and women of our age, who are more educated and more sensitive and usually work more than males, but being paid less. She has so much to offer, but she’s just a little shy and so other people who are more arrogant tend to get more from society. She is a beautiful treasure waiting there, but only needs someone with special eyes to find it.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>What reactions do you get from readers outside Italy? Do they think that the book is very Italian?</em></p> <blockquote><p>I get many different reactions, due to the different people and different places they live in. Brasilian readers and readers from Israel, from the USA, France, Germany…this is a fascinating side of a book, you write it and once it gets published it starts its own life, together with the readers. It’s like a baby, when it grows up you just have to let it go through the world and hope it’s good with the people it meets.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>Apart from being a writer you are also a translator from English. Does translation work enhance creative writing and how?</em></p> <blockquote><p>No doubt about it. Translating forces you to explore a very special territory, which lies on the border between your language and another, and in that territory you have to deal and walk, and there you can find the meaning of words, their essence, far from the short-sized sense that they have in your language, far from the same old constructions and connections you were born with. So, when you write your own pages, you become free of using the language, and love it for what it is: a live creature, which moves and changes and swims in a liquid place which is life. Writers should often visit that territory, to tell stories in a lively and intense way. Storytelling is passion, intensity, dealing with every strong feeling that gives meaning to our life. You can’t tell a story of life with dead words and a dead style, it’s like bringing a grave to a birthday party.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>Have you been to Bulgaria before? What is your first association with our country?</em></p> <blockquote><p>Years and years ago I visited Greece and Bulgaria with a couple of friends, it was a great road trip, coast to coast from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. But to be honest I was never lucid enough to understand where I was, so I’d love to visit it again now and enjoy your country. I also planned to come to the city of Kavarna in 2010, when I read they elected a mayor who was a total heavy metal fan and used to call himself “Kmetal”…they had metal monuments and murales, and a great heavy metal festival in July and I was so curious. And I also read it’s a great fishing place, so it really sounds wonderful.</p> <p>Plus, Bulgaria is where one of my childhood heroes was born: Spartacus. 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View from Forte dei Marmi, the birthplace of Fabio Genovesi where he still lives today. 2. View from Tuscany where the novel Nasluka is set.</div></div></div> Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:10:58 +0000 admin 57 at https://vialettera.eu https://vialettera.eu/en/news/fabio-genovesi-there-are-no-empty-and-solitary-spaces-between-us-contact-inevitable#comments WRITERS SHOULD GO OUTSIDE https://vialettera.eu/en/news/writers-should-go-outside <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://vialettera.eu/sites/default/files/wro.jpg" width="640" height="640" alt="" /></div><div class="field-item odd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://vialettera.eu/sites/default/files/weall.jpg" width="640" height="640" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p> </p> <p><strong><em>It wasn’t by accident that we at Via Lettera chose Michele Ponte to be our first author. His novel ‘Diary of a young psychopath’ impressed us with its youthful sincerity, innovative style and its spirit of adventure. One of the topics that we are interested in is the theme of the new Europeans. We would like to find out more about the new generation of Europe that does not remember the separation lines of the past.</em></strong></p> <p><strong><em>Just before the publication of the novel in Bulgarian, we had a chat with Michele Ponte.</em></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><em>Michele, your novel </em><em>‘</em><em>Diary of a young psychopath’</em><em> has just been published in Bulgarian. What are your thoughts and feelings in the eve of this launch? </em></p> <blockquote><p>I love to travel, so now I have the perfect excuse to visit Bulgaria, especially Sofia and the Black Sea.</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><em>What was the inspiration behind </em><em>‘Diary of a young psychopath’</em><em>?</em></p> <blockquote><p>It was the need to write something that at least for me seemed to be a good writing, but especially the need to create a novel that would be different from all the rest. I wanted something that would make readers think: “I've never read a book like this.” Some people could hate this novel, but at least it is original and they will recognise it.</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><em>Present your novel in a sentence.</em></p> <blockquote><p>It is the story of a boy discovering himself and understanding the world around him after a loss.</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><em>Was this the novel you had in mind when you started writing or did the narrative take you in a different direction than you initially intended? </em></p> <blockquote><p>I had no clear direction, I was just writing and had no idea of how it could end. Especially looking at the end, my Italian publisher made me re-write the last pages at least 7 times and now I really appreciate the result.</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><em>Do you recognise yourself in </em><em>‘Diary of a young psychopath’</em><em>? Is it related somehow to real events in your life?</em></p> <blockquote><p>Let’s just say that some scenes are transposed minute by minute from real events...</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><em>How was this novel accepted in Italy?</em></p> <blockquote><p>I am amazingly surprised every time I read a new review: people are so different, they could say things from A to Z and this is what makes this world perfect and not so boring: different opinions.</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><em>What were the best and the worst comments you received?</em></p> <blockquote><p>One of the worst: “If it wasn't for the arrogant and obnoxious protagonist, the book maybe could be readable.”</p> <p>One of the best: “This story is so unlikely and unexpected that until the last page you want to check if something will happen or if it is just a product of a crazy man.”</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><em>The protagonist in the novel is half-Italian, half-Polish. He has grown up in Rome but used to spend his summer holidays in the Polish countryside. Later in his 20’s he goes back to Poland again to heal his emotional wounds. How would you define the nationality of your protagonist: Italian, Italian-Polish or European? And how would you define yours?</em></p> <blockquote><p>I've read an interview in which Umberto Eco said that Erasmus students are creating the first European citizen, and he is kinda right. The problem is that he hasn't experienced it directly: I know he married a German woman, but he is not a “son of Europe”. Europe will never be as tight as USA because we are too different and very proud of our own history. As a product of two cultures, Italian and Polish, I can say that sometimes I feel like I belong more to one country than the other, but never European even if it would be nice to be; I'd have to say that mostly I feel like in that old cartoon character called <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balto_(film)">Balto</a></em>: “It is not a wolf, it is not a dog. It knows only what it isn't.”</p> <p>I do hope that one day I'll be able to write a great book on this topic.</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><em>The novel is like a cultural bridge between Eastern and Western Europe. As a young European do you feel there is still some kind of a gap in people’s perceptions of East and West or is it already a thing of the past?</em></p> <blockquote><p>In people's perceptions there is still a cultural gap and this is why I try to make as many of my friends as I can visit Poland, so they can see and feel that what they thought about it was just a product of old stories: 15-20 years ago I remember my father driving in streets built by Hitler to let pass the tanks during WWII, streets with holes, scars from side to side. Those are just memories, nothing more.</p> <p>But I have to admit that some countries are trying to fill this gap so fast now that they are invaded by big companies, the globalitazion that is pushing from every corner, and I'm worried that those countries will lose their identity.</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><em>Who has influenced your writing most: writers you like or people you meet?</em></p> <blockquote><p>Both, but I'm one of those who think that writers should go outside of their room, feel the world and only then describe what they have experienced. Meeting people helps to create better characters, hearing stories helps create better novels.</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><em>What topics would you rather avoid writing about</em><em>?</em></p> <blockquote><p>It's not about the topic, but about the story. If my blood doesn't run as fast as it can, if I'm not excited or passionate about it, then it is not worth wasting my time and the time of the reader.</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><em>You are always on the go, so where do we find you this time?</em></p> <blockquote><p>I've just arrived in Wroclaw, Poland. I think that I'll stay in this city at least until 1<sup>st</sup> of January, because friends from many nations have already booked flights to come visit me until that date. Then I will see how I feel, which especially depends on whether I would be too bored doing the work I just got at an airway company.</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><em>Have you ever visited Bulgaria? What are your first associations, impressions, or connections with Bulgaria?</em></p> <blockquote><p>I've to admit that before this publication Bulgaria wasn't the first country that would have come to my mind for a future trip, now it is on the top list. I love the smell of the sea, the sound of the sea waves, so if I have the time I'd start from the coast and then move inside, through some places in the mountains all the way to Sofia.</p> </blockquote> <blockquote><p>Ah, to answer your question... the first association my mind makes with Bulgaria is the Bulgarian wine that I tried in Krakow in 2011. I know it is nothing important, but this is the first thing that comes to my head.</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><em>What are you working on at the moment? </em></p> <blockquote><p>A novel about basketball and broken dreams.</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><em>Thank you for your time. 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The view from Michele Ponte&#039;s writing desk. Photo 2. One of Ponte&#039;s favourite phrases.</div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="translation_bg first last"><a href="/bg/news/%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5-%D1%82%D1%80%D1%8F%D0%B1%D0%B2%D0%B0-%D0%B4%D0%B0-%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%82-%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8A%D0%BD" title="ПИСАТЕЛИТЕ ТРЯБВА ДА ИЗЛИЗАТ НАВЪН" class="translation-link" xml:lang="bg"><img class="language-icon" typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://vialettera.eu/sites/all/modules/languageicons/flags/bg.png" width="16" height="12" alt="Български" title="Български" /></a></li> </ul> Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:40:18 +0000 admin 45 at https://vialettera.eu https://vialettera.eu/en/news/writers-should-go-outside#comments