(June 15, 2016) “Incontri d’autore” (Author encounters) series by the Italian Cultural Institute of Warsaw welcomes Vito Catalano this afternoon at 18:00; a young emerging writer, nephew of the writer Leonardo Sciascia. Catalano was born in Palermo in 1979 and divides his time in Poland and Sicily. “L’orma del lupo” (The wolf’s footprint) is his first publication. His “La sciabola spezzata” (The Broken Saber, Rubettino, Collana PatiPatisse, 2013) will presented today at the ICI, or in Polish “Złamana Szabla” (Esprit Publishers). The rendezvous was promoted by the ICI in collaboration with Ksiegarnia Fundacji Pomocy Bibliotekom Polskim and Platon company will give the public the opportunity to the public to learn about the young author’s novel: situated in the 19th century after Napeleon’s fall when Poland was divided between Russia, Austria and Prussia. In 1863, the Polish rebel against the Russians. Some Italian patriots, guided by a Garibaldi Soldier named Francesco Nullo, leave to aide the rebels. In Catalano’s novel, a young Sicilian joins Nullo’s men and tells his adventures in the first person: the arrival in Poland, the fighting, the tragic end of the expedition, love, escapes through the woods, encounters with kossacks, and then Poland itself, its people (the patriot, the nobleman, the intellectual, the peasant and the traitor) and its landscape. The narrated events are constantly intertwined with images and memories of Sicily. It is a dramatic story of adventure. (Red)
