Michela Murgia wrote until the last day of her life, and her thoughts have now been collected in a pamphlet, “Dare la vita”, edited by Alessandro Giammei. An unpublished work that is already among the most anticipated titles of 2024 and will be in bookstores posthumously on January 9th for Rizzoli.

A "touching" book about family. It was supposed to be only about gestation for others, then it became a "deeper" volume on the meaning of parenthood and kinship", says Giammei, curator of Murgia's work and member of his "queer family".

«My soul has never wanted to generate meek, complacent, condescending people or books. Make a mess", says Murgia who in this very dense pamphlet tells, starting from personal experience, the essence of motherhood, how one can give life without generating, how soul bonds can correspond to blood bonds.

Can we be mothers of daughters and sons who choose themselves and who in turn have chosen us? Is it possible to build a family without blood ties? The answer for Michela is yes. Murgia has been dealing with this for years and puts it in black and white.

The Sardinian intellectual also leaves behind "a rich heritage of files written over many years, many missing stories and unpublished pages", Giammei announced. «There is - continues Giammei - also a book project that she had begun to edit, let's see if it can be completed. It's a book that Michela was talking about, for which she did interviews and stories."

Murgia, concludes Giammei, «was proud to have reached the end with the strength and clarity to close the project of the book that will be published by Rizzoli. Throughout her life she always kept all her promises, both editorial and political, at great expense."

(Unioneonline)

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