Vedo nero. 90 storie su tutto ciò che è nero
Once upon a time, before Big Bang, when nothing existed, everything was black. And when everything is over and the last man, getting out, switches off the light, everything will turn black again. More or less halfway between the beginning and the end there is this book which is not black, but it’s about black. Page by page ninety short stories about black follow each other only apparently at random. Stories, notes, hints, oddities, aphorisms, and ideas which are purposely open to the immagination of the readers. Well, if now you are the reader you could try to free your immagination in the dark and check what’s going on but I know that this might be risky. What if somebody all of the sudden switches on the light and catches you with your hands in the jar and your nose stuck in the book? What a fright! Okay, well, it’s fine also reading the book under the light – no worries –since the black is not a color and probably it’s not as dark as it could appear…. It’s obscure, maybe yes, or perhaps this is only the way we all are used to look at it.
Writer and illustrator, he is the author of more than thirty children books. He was honoured with the Andersen Award as “all-around author”. He reached success thanks to The New York Times, and later started collaborations with Linus, Comix, Il Corriere della Sera, Pimpa magazine, and the TV show for kids l’Albero Azzurro. In 1995 he invented the cartoon character Pecora Nera and the cultural project La Pecora Nera & altri Sogni, carried out in the Nisida juvenile hall.
