Written at night. The forbidden book.
Herodios| N° d'inventaire | 23417 |
| Format | 14 x 22 |
| Détails | 102 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Lausanne, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782940666003 |
A legendary artist, an icon of modernity and the international avant-garde, Ettore Sottsass is also an accomplished writer, a master in the art of storytelling, as evidenced by his numerous stories and chronicles, and these autobiographical pages from Written at Night, which profoundly renew the theme of "innamoramento". The section of this book of memoirs that forms The Forbidden Book is the one where Sottsass appears most naked, where creativity, sensitivity, intelligence flow into one with sensuality.
In Written at Night, conceived as a testament in the early 2000s, Sottsass parades, in a falsely casual sequence, the pictures of his childhood in Austria and then in Turin; of his youth, where he met Fernanda Pivano, the great Italian translator of the writers and poets of the Beat Generation, who would influence him; in The Forbidden Book, we find Sottsass in middle age, where he met the woman who would become his muse and accomplice, Barbara Radice, with whom he would travel across all continents, driven by curiosity and an insatiable quest for beauty.
What is striking and enchanting in these vivid evocations is Sottsass's gift for delivering himself in a confident and intimate voice to the reader, who travels through a life and a century in his company.
A legendary artist, an icon of modernity and the international avant-garde, Ettore Sottsass is also an accomplished writer, a master in the art of storytelling, as evidenced by his numerous stories and chronicles, and these autobiographical pages from Written at Night, which profoundly renew the theme of "innamoramento". The section of this book of memoirs that forms The Forbidden Book is the one where Sottsass appears most naked, where creativity, sensitivity, intelligence flow into one with sensuality.
In Written at Night, conceived as a testament in the early 2000s, Sottsass parades, in a falsely casual sequence, the pictures of his childhood in Austria and then in Turin; of his youth, where he met Fernanda Pivano, the great Italian translator of the writers and poets of the Beat Generation, who would influence him; in The Forbidden Book, we find Sottsass in middle age, where he met the woman who would become his muse and accomplice, Barbara Radice, with whom he would travel across all continents, driven by curiosity and an insatiable quest for beauty.
What is striking and enchanting in these vivid evocations is Sottsass's gift for delivering himself in a confident and intimate voice to the reader, who travels through a life and a century in his company.