Maurizio Targa and his "San Romolo", a festival novel

Maurizio Targa and his “San Romolo”, a festival novel

ByJohn

The cover does not say the truth, with its subtitle (“The counter -refresh of the festival (of Sanremo)”. It seems to want to promise the usual collection of more or less known background. And instead this beautiful book by Maurizio Targa (I have already reviewed here his “The heart is an itinerant Sinti”) -What is one that of the “Italian song” matter knows – as the fourth cover is much more correctly ” An encyclopedia, nor a list of titles and rankings.

It is rather a festival novel “. That’s right: we are far from the formula already too repeated of the annual, but we are also far from the collection of more or less truthful gossip. Targa tells fluidly, neatly, with punctual excursus, the 75 years of history of the Italian Song Festival: without neglecting the essential information, deepening significant episodes, drawing characters and interpreters, and supporting a discursively narrative vein that would make the book the ideal matter of a series of podcasts.

I conversed with Maurizio Targa of his book. Here are the videos.

First part:

Second part:

John
John

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