For the publishing house\u2019s 50th anniversary, several Sellerio authors pulled a book from the catalog off the shelf and retold it in a compelling new storyline. The result was eight extraordinary adventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Sellerio publishing house, eight \u201cmystery writers,\u201d companions at different times in our history, recalled a book chosen from the more than three thousand in the catalog, the one that struck each of them for whatever personal reason (not necessarily that they liked it the most), and made it the defining element of a new plot. They wrote a story with a book: where it is from time to time either a kind of motive for a death (so in Marco Malvaldi\u2019s story The End is Known by the mysterious author Holiday Hall); or it is the instrument for a metamorphosis in a person\u2019s life (in Santo Piazzese\u2019s story, Ignazio Buttitta\u2019s poem The True Story of Salvatore Giuliano); or it is taken as the schematic model of an exchange of misunderstandings, the narrative skeleton of a risky affair (this is the case, in Francesco Recami\u2019s short story, of Louise de Vilmorin\u2019s little volume The Jewels of Madame de***); or the moral nourishment that gives the force of doubt necessary to those who investigate (as it is, for Gaetano Savatteri\u2019s two \u201cinvestigators Laurel and Hardy,\u201d the skeptical apologue of Anatole France\u2019s Prosecutor of Judea); a pure inspiration (that\u2019s what leads Giampaolo Simi to choose V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n\u2019s Assassination at the Central Committee as a guide to his story of terrorism); the lingering atmosphere of a black underground Palermo (which is what Gian Mauro Costa wants in common with his black intrigue in a grim and romantic affair from Stories and Chronicles of the Underground City by the unforgettable poetic chronicler and theatricalist Salvo Licata); a medicine for a horrendous case of isolation (so is Gesualdo Bufalino\u2019s La luce e il lutto for Fabio Stassi\u2019s bibliotherapist Vince Corso); and finally, an anguish-inducing book that becomes the idea for solving the case (as happens to Carlo Monterossi, Alessandro Robecchi\u2019s amateur who finds himself investigating threatening postcards while reading about those of Hans Fallada\u2019s two little anti-Nazi heroes in Everyone Dies Alone).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The authors of these stories, in pulling a Sellerio book from the shelf to commemorate the publishing house\u2019s 50th year, did not intend to devise a \u201cstory about a book,\u201d but attempted to recreate through fiction their nevertheless most vivid reading experience with Sellerio.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Per i 50 anni della casa editrice alcuni autori Sellerio hanno tratto dallo scaffale un libro del catalogo per raccontarlo in una nuova avvincente trama. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-libri"],"meta_box":{"seleziona_logo":"Standard","colore":"Prefedinito","autore":"AA. VV.","citazione":"","titolo_2":"","releasedate":"","publisher":"","pages":"","translation_rights_sold_to":"","group_info_progetto":[],"immagini":[],"galleria_video":[],"autori-libri_to":["539","533"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alferj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alferj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alferj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alferj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alferj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alferj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/alferj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alferj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alferj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alferj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alferj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}