(ANSA) – ROME, DECEMBER 08 – “They did not leave me alive and they did not give me the coup de grace. I am in a halfway territory”. Roberto Saviano said this in dialogue with Michela Murgia, in a crowded Auditorium, on the closing day of ‘Più libri più liber’, the small and medium publishing fair at the Nuvola dell’Eur, in Rome, where the writer talked about ‘I’m still alive’ his first graphic novel, with drawings by illustrator Asaf Hanuka, published by Bao Publishing.
“At the beginning I was certain that sooner or later it would end.
I was 26 when they asked me or to make a will and when they constantly moved me from place to place and this thing instead of giving me anguish gave me hope, because I thought in three years it is over. But then the years went further and I wondered, but then they leave me like this. How do you do it now? How do you live halfway between two inverse forces? “Saviano said amid applause stimulated by questions from the Murgia.
But who are they? Before it was the Camorra, now it is no longer defined? “I was on trial for both Salvini and Meloni. In this graphic novel I feel and manage to some extent show the wound for the first time. This type of condition does not leave you stronger. Of course I am proud to be in the viewfinder of detestable figures but you pay the price of isolation, of worries and also of money. You have to pay the lawyers. Salvini complains to me on letterhead, which happened at the time of his twenties. His wearing the uniform was not a tribute to the police it was to say, “if you have a problem with me, you have a problem with the police.” If I sue you, they’re moving. That’s what’s happening.
This is why it is extremely dangerous. And then if you react, you are the hate fomenter “said Saviano.
The meeting opened with a video interview granted by the Turkish writer and dissident Ahmet Altan to Silvia Barbagallo, curator of the fair’s program. (HANDLE).
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