The effect Camillerithe prodigious ability of the master Andrea Camilleriwhich has become a literary case of mature age, when in 1994 he published the first novel with the most famous commissioner in Italy, after a prominent career as a director and author between theater, television, radio, and as a writer of historical novels, the ability to expand the stories and to expand six years after his death and in this 2025, year of the centenary of his birth (he was born on September 6, 1925 a Porto Empedocle), lives in the celebratory series «one hundred years of Andrea Camilleri” That Sellerio dedicates to its flagship author, to the one who made it grow at home Sellerio the literary family of many yellow authors, of many who came after the father of Montalbanohis sons or aesthetic grandchildren.
The books are resistant bridges, combine and create bonds, leave footprints, and the new series of Sellerioafter the “historical” ones with the iconic blue covers common to all the publications of the Palermo publishing house, characterizes twelve titles of the Montalbanian cycle (all will be released by 2025) with a new graphic design and new covers, created specifically with the original drawings of the Maestro Lorenzo Mattotti.
Cartoonistillustrator, director and screenwriter known internationally, a long and busy career (his collaboration with books and art catalogs), with his exuberant evocative-social style gives the “new” Camilleri a new musicality, a new “graphic solfeggio”, such as Mattotti He loves to say for his pen with more visions, between magic and mystery, between grotesque and surreal and as the publisher observes for the invention of the “Vigatese” who “has the purpose of modulating the harmony of a musical sound, so much so that a foreign reader to the Sicilian is always able to” listen “to this performance in the way of a score, in place instead of the notes”.
Colored covers such as the colors of all the stories of Camillericharacterized by a new freshness, with an ironic figure common to the two masters Camilleri And Mattotticapable of generating pleasure in those who “read” and “listen to” their stories, starting with the images staged by the illustration that push to explore the space of the book, both by those who already know these twelve stories and who are preparing to know them.
Moreover, each narrative contains pretexts to be reread, especially if illuminated, as in the twelve books of this celebratory series, “by the authoritative reading of some of the most lucid writers on the national and international scene – recalls the publisher -, enthusiasts of the first hour or electrocuted only recently, to whom we asked for not a learned literary essay, but rather to tell us about their experience of readers of Camilleri».
Yellow background for «The shape of the water»(With a note of Antonio Manziniperhaps the most brilliant of the grandchildren of Camillerilinked to him by ancient friendship and to which Camilleri He proposed the reading first), blue for “The Moon Revolution»With a note of Chiara Valeriomint green for «The concession of the phone»With a note of Alessandro Barberoamaranth for «The forgotten massacre” And “The component bubble», Gathered in one volume with the notes of Luciano Canfora And Vanessa Scogi.
All preceded by a note from the publisher who recalls as “the best way to honor and strengthen the wonderful relationship that the great writer had with Italian readers was to re -propose, in the year of the centenary of his birth, in a new dedicated series, a selection of his extraordinary work”; all followed by a afterword of Camillerialways generous in explaining the genesis of his stories and regarding the saga of Montalbano. These, therefore, the first four of the twelve titles of the stories with Salvo Montalbano “Chosen – adds the publisher – alongside the most loved to others less known, but equally surprising”.
What he made his head tell Camilleri when he invented Montalbanothat in «The shape of the water»In a”Vigàta who was in charge as the parody of Manhattan On a small scale “it already appears as one who” when he wanted to understand one thing, he understood it “, the master explains it in the afterword of the first volume of the new series. Facing a bet, «with himself and with the unaware Calvino», Measuring himself with the challenge of a seriality that would have proved to be of amazing success, consecrated by the successful namesaken of the namesima, Camillerithe one who had been responsible for the Rai of all the unforgettable Maigret television with Gino Cervidecides how his commissioner had to be Montalbano («With a surname stolen from a writer, Manuel Vásquez Montalbánthat you taught me to love »he writes Manzini) for his first detective: “Intelligent, faithful to the word given, reluctant to the useless heroisms, cultured, good reader, peaceful reasoner, without prejudice”. A man who “when he wanted to understand one thing, understood it”, in fact.
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