Two years after Michela Murgia's death, "the big party"

These stories are really beautiful. As beautiful is her writing: unexpected, it grabs the thoughts and does not let go, sometimes it slides lightly, other times it gets tangled. And you do not want them to end, because inside there is all of life, the one that happens and the one that can be imagined, and that, like few others, Michela Murgia has been able to decipher.

Two years after the death of the famous writer, which occurred in Rome on August 10, 2023, “Anna della pioggia” is released today , a collection of short stories selected by Alessandro Giammei, professor of Italian Literature at Yale University. A posthumous book: «The first truly posthumous» writes the curator, «the first, that is, for which Michela Murgia had not already agreed everything with the publishers».

Of those volumes that "are made after death", as the writer from Cabras repeated every time her fill 'e anima proposed it to her , but she was still alive. The time has come, and Giammei, to whom Murgia has given the password to his archive, "reasoned, stratified and copied in online folders", has extracted an anthology from hundreds of pages of texts. "It's a party, a drunkenness" announces in the note the professor, himself an author of essays and novels. As happens when wines and spirits are mixed at the table, because one wants to taste them all, so on the pages of "Anna della pioggia" different registers, tones and styles are combined: a hosanna to change and a spite to fans of canons.

"She was never comfortable in any constraint" Michela. "She took her shoes off her feet as soon as she could, she immediately stripped her books of their dust jackets, every few years she moved from one of the many houses she rented or borrowed".