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An ultra writer, but also a great absentee: this is how Ester Viola, lawyer and writer, describes Italo Calvino in the new Ultra Calvino audio series, produced by Chora Media in collaboration with the Scuderie del Quirinale.
A series that was born from a strong passion for the writer and is aimed at those who share this passion, but also at those who have not (yet) fallen in love with Calvino.
Ester Viola decided to go and look for him, starting from the beginning of her story, from when as a child she spent winter afternoons in the province reading the collections of fairy tales edited by Calvino. A writer who has always accompanied her, and who emerges from the most diverse points of view over the course of the five episodes. Biographical hints and references to more or less well-known works become the framework of a journey into the writer’s life, but above all into the love relationship that readers have established with him over time.
Because Calvino doesn’t just speak to writers, but has inspired and continues to inspire anyone who can find him in the present.
Among those interviewed Irene Rinaldi, an illustrator who hides a “fantastic truth”, that is a degree of kinship with Calvino, Jhumpa Lahiri, who leads us to reflect on the author’s curiosity for the world, Alessandro Giammei, who discusses the extraordinary ability to Calvino to connect the remote past and the future, and Mario Calabresi, who talks about the famous – but often misinterpreted – lesson on lightness.
Ultra Calvino is available from January 25th on all free audio platforms (Spotify, Apple Podcast, Spreaker, Google Podcast).