Grazia Deledda lives again through the correspondence rediscovered by Piero Mura . The author of "Grazia Deledda's letters to Andrea Pirodda" will be in Olbia on Friday, guest of the Argonauti Polytechnic, to present his book.
A volume that contains the transcription and study of a complete and unpublished collection of letters , with 1158 manuscript sheets divided into 190 independent texts (letters, cards, postcards) to which are added some rare envelopes containing short texts, notes or postscripts, and four original photographs . The writings, which testify to the long and fluctuating romantic relationship that the writer had with the teacher from Aggio Andrea Pirodda, were written over a period of time that goes from 20 January 1891, a few months before the beginning of the relationship, to 22 October 1899, the of the last ticket, and offer the possibility of looking into one of the least known periods in Grazia Deledda's biography: her youth, those intense and formative years that preceded her marriage and the consequent abandonment of Nuoro and Sardinia.
In the collected letters we witness the evolution that led a provincial girl, gifted but dreamy and shy, to become the only Italian writer to have received the Nobel Prize . From this formative period, the letters to Andrea Pirodda represent a sort of "travel diary" that provides first-hand information on the salient facts of the writer's life and her world, while at the same time revealing the chronology and reasons for future thematic choices and stylistics operated in the narrative context. But the papers also reveal the long process of "self-analysis": in the endless monologue that is her epistolography, Deledda, who passed away in 1936, at the age of 64, carries out an in-depth investigation into herself, in which she learns to know herself and together builds herself , simultaneously digging the foundations for the factory of his own characters.
Appointment, therefore, on Friday 24 May in Olbia (from 6.30pm) : talk with the author Marco Navone.