A magical thread capable of reconnecting history: the gaze of a beautiful Michela Murgia , the work of a (for now) unnamed writer, who turns towards the square, the church and the house, which were places of childhood and youth.
And it does not seem accidental that a still mysterious artist chose the curves of the road that leads to San Giovanni di Sinis to offer his tribute to the literary mother of the most famous Accabadora .
Michela's portrait is large, flashy: dressed in black, with the same headdress she wore to dominate the cover of a historic edition of Vanity Fair. With our backs to the village, our faces turned partly towards the sea and partly towards the pond, smiling, towards that walk where the afternoons of the boys from Cabras, the friends of their youth, spent chatting, singing and first loves.
There is a writing that is reflected on the sides of the portrait: the three letters of Ave, which on that abandoned wall and now become a precious canvas, can also be read in reverse . And if they are not the author's signature, those syllables can also pass as a reference to "Ave Mary", the title of one of the best-known books by the writer who moved Italy in August and left readers and supporters orphaned of the many battles carried out with courage.
In recent days, and it doesn't seem like a coincidence, Michela Murgia's first book has been published posthumously, dictated in the days when the illness made everything more difficult. And perhaps the artist who brought back Kelledda's gaze and smile in front of her pond and her church did not choose the moment to remember her by chance.
