Tuesday 5 November, at 7 pm in Alghero, in the conference room of Lo Quarter, a new appointment with "Dall'altra parte del mare", the literary festival conceived and organized by the Itinerandia association and dedicated to books, writers and stories. The protagonist of the evening will be Luigi Manconi who will present his brand new book "La scomparsa dei colori" (Garzanti, 2024). Mariolina Cosseddu and the mayor of Alghero Raimondo Cacciotto will speak with the author. The evening will be animated by readings by Caterina Corbi.
The book tells the story of a blind man and his dramatic experience . It means the wearing out of relationships with the world, with its sizes and colors, with its promises and surprises. And it means the wearing out of relationships with others and with things: caresses that don't hit the mark and glasses that fall, the impossibility of writing a dedication or deciphering a face.
Over the course of more than fifteen years, Luigi Manconi, sociologist and political activist, has gone from severe myopia to low vision, to partial blindness and finally to total blindness . The book is the testimony of a journey of awareness and knowledge and the story of a new world full of echoes: the sounds of a basketball game, the notes of a song, the voice dictating a text or giving a command to a voice assistant or that of the actor reading an audiobook.
