Gianni Celati
Gianni Celati is one of Italy’s leading contemporary novelists. His work has been translated all over the world. Born in Sondrio in 1937, he studied in Bologna, specialising in English and American literature. He was a student of Italo Calvino, who personally introduced him to the world of literature, and he translates major writers including Melville, Conrad, Jack London, Céline and Barthes, as well as writing philosophical and critical essays. He is a stage and film director (The World of Luigi Ghirri (1999), about the famous post-war photographer). Rebecca West’s book about his life’s work, Gianni Celati, The Craft of Everyday Storytelling, was published by University of Toronto Press.
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The World of Luigi Ghirri
This film was made in the same spirit and with the same imperative as Luigi Ghirri used in his own photography : see things as part of a greater whole and look at those things with a sense of emotional commitment. The feelings that Ghirri's work instils in the onlooker are described by his friends and admirers, some of whom are on camera and some off. Much of this film was shot on location, wit...
The World of Luigi Ghirri
This film was made in the same spirit and with the same imperative as Luigi Ghirri used in his own photography : see things as part of a greater whole and look at those things with a sense of emotional commitment. The feelings that Ghirri's work instils in the onlooker are described by his friends and admirers, some of whom are on camera and some off. Much of this film was shot on location, wit...
