Paris. This year the start of the Giro d’Italia will take place on May 4th in Jerusalem to honour Gino Bartali, the famous champion of the 1930s and 1940s. On the occasion of the publication of his book “Un vélo contre la barbarie nazie, l’incroyable destin du champion Gino Bartali”, the author, Alberto Toscano, will dialogue with journalist Éric Fottorino, with anthropologist Marc Augé author of “Éloge de la bicyclette” (Payot & Rivages, 2010), and novelist Fabio Genovesi, author of “D’où viennent les vagues” (JC Lattès, 2016) and of an essay on the Giro d’Italia. An evening – on May 3rd at the Italian Institute of Culture in Paris – of comparisons between bicycle lovers to evoke a legendary sport and to testify the close link between literature and cycling, a sport of inspiration for many writers like Dino Buzzati, Giovanni Testori, Albert Londres, Antoine Blondin, and many others. (9Colonne)
