SortHe says that too many books are published in our country and someone sees in this paper cornucopia one of the reasons why the market is accusing a considerable flexion of sales. But it cannot be ignored that between inflation and increases the families often find themselves in front of a crossroads and the first to be sacrificed are the assets that are not immediately necessary.
When you browned a series of bills to pay on the table in front of you, it is difficult to remember how vital to your well -being is. Yet it is so. Fortunately, there is no shortage of literary presentations and meetings, There is a hunger for narration, a need for sharing and this is always a good signal which reflects a desire for participation and sociability. It doesn’t matter if the guests do not always buy the book, if they buy it or they will give it: in the meantime you can breathe together.
Tangible paper books
I understand the effort of the authors who go around as a top to accompany their work. But, he says The Wu-Ming 1 writer in a lively dialogue with Loredana Lipperini on Lucy. On culture (a beautiful and necessary magazine), “we have this” ball “of the body, of the bodies. Returning to doing things together with the bodies is the only real way of steming the epidemic of solitudes, the terrible fraying of relationships ». Bodies and paper, tangible elements against the solipsistic drift of social media.
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There are also those who despite everything continue to passionate and even look for editions out of catalogbooks never republished and nowhere to be found. And I’m not just talking about the rare editions that are bought to auction by collectors at exorbitant prices.
Collectors and markets
But of whom, Maybe, discovering a certain writer late, is encouraged to recover all the previous titlessometimes unavailable, and began a loving research between markets and dedicated sites as a detective on the trail of a clue.
“Marcio blood”, Antonio Manzini’s debut novel
It also happened with Rotten bloodAntonio Manzini’s debut novel That, disappeared from the catalogs, today after twenty years from the first publication he finally returns to the bookstore, to the delight of those who gave him missing.
A welcome re -edition
An operation of the Piemme publishing house that proposes it in a new edition With a surprise bonus, a preface by the author. Which confesses: “Publishing the first book was an epiphany, I discovered an unconscious, risky love, even as a pathological for a world, that of publishing, which welcomed me with open arms without I ever asked him”.
The Manzinian ingredients that capture the reader are already all Present and for those who at the time if lost it will be a very pleasant discovery.
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