Camilleri's Vigata told by Lorenzo Rosso

"MY VIGATA: WITH ANDREA CAMILLERI IN THE CITY OF INSPIRER MONTALBANO" BY LORENZO RED, VGS LIBRI, PP. 150, 15 EURO - A critic defined Vigàta as the country more invented than the most real Sicily. "If it were up to me - Andrea Camilleri claimed - I would correct the definition with a country, partly true, of the most invented Sicily!". In occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his birth (Porto Empedocle 1925 - 2025) comes out for the types of Vgs Libri "My Vigata: with Andrea Camilleri in the city of Inspector Montalbano". Between places real and imaginary the journalist writer Lorenzo Rosso performs a "journey" to discover Andrea's literary Vigàta Camilleri. Between memories and words of the Maestro on his native country, the true soul of Porto Empedocle emerges in the book that Camilleri has transformed into one of the most original narrative constructions of contemporary Italian literature. "In the volume La mia Vigàta - Gennaro writes in the preface Schembri Professor of the Department of Humanities of the University of Palermo - Lorenzo Rosso takes up some themes particularly dear to Andrea Camilleri, including the relationship between real city and imaginary city, memory, the I remember, the tastes and the smells. Although these elements are already faced by Rosso in the past, in particular in book-interview A beer at the Vigàta café, they find in this location a renewed interpretative breath and a further level of depth. The book is not limited to being a tribute to the Sicilian writer, but it is configured as a reflection on the construction of an imaginary: on how Camilleri developed his Vigàta starting from elements biographical and perceptive aspects linked to his Porto Empedocle, a city reality transfigured in a literary key". The volume also contains a suggestive appendix photographic exhibition on Vigàta curated by Angelo Pitrone and a Memoir text by Bruno Gambarotta that recalls his past working at Rai when he shared the office in Viale Mazzini, precisely with his colleague Camilleri.