"Per gusto e per diletto": Maddalena Fingerle

? Next event of the "Per gusto e per diletto" series: Thursday, August 22, at 6:30 pm, at the Garden of Poetry “Rita Santoro Mastantuono” at the MAAC in Ceglie Messapica with Maddalena Fingerle, interviewed by journalist Silvia Di Dio.

? Maddalena Fingerle is an Italian author. Born in Bolzano in 1993, she studied German and Italian literature and is a university researcher. Some of her stories have been published in "Nazione Indiana", "CrapulaClub", and "Narrandom". In 2021, she published "Lingua madre" (Italo Svevo), a book that has won various awards, including the Italo Calvino Prize. In 2022, she released "Una proposta stronza" (Tetra) and in 2023 "L'Adone non è noioso" (Italo Svevo).

? She will be a guest at the event with the book "Pudore" (Mondadori, 2024).
Gaia no longer wants to be herself: she shaves her head and wears wigs, sells her most precious earrings on eBay, gets rid of her wardrobe and buys a new bed – which she then doesn't know how to assemble. She wants to rebuild herself and the environment she lives in in the image and likeness of Veronica: her beloved, wonderful Veronica, who has just left her. Veronica is not only the person Gaia fell in love with, but also the woman she wants to become – as in the early, furious infatuation. Gaia's family belongs to the solid bourgeois Italians living in Monaco and embody everything she rejects: humanistic culture as nonchalance and ostentation, the cult of appearance, the tendency to delegate operational tasks to subordinates. Veronica, on the other hand, is a vital, concrete, extroverted, and sunny woman like the land she comes from, Salento. Gaia's nature is lunar, reflective, fueled by unrestrained imagination: the imposing brute who shows up at her door to collect items she wants to sell doesn't have Joe's face, he's definitely Iwan. Renaming people, interpreting the situations she finds herself in is essential in order to integrate them into her world. In a soliloquy sometimes angry and assertive, sometimes frightened and hostage to a myriad of sublime obsessions, but always ironic and sharp, Gaia will come to know herself better and will be ready to truly take risks to become the individual she wants to be.

? August 22, at 6:30 pm.

? MAAC Museum - Garden of Poetry “Rita Santoro Mastantuono” - Via Enrico de Nicola, no. 1, Ceglie Messapica.
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