This article is published in Vanity Fair issue 34-35 on newsstands until August 31, 2021
Come on Daria, tell me what you are reading these days »is the most frequent question they ask me in this period. I have kept the answer for you. I read Crude from Olivia Laing (the Assayer). At first I found it irritating: I love Olivia Laing and I expected a style closer to her essays, then I realized that the beauty of her first novel is the raw style. And that Kathy, the insufferable protagonist, is truer than any captivating heroine.
Morale: never have expectations, always be amazed and remember that if something bothers you, it’s about you. Then I read Dead waters from W. Somerset Maugham, which is a guarantee of enjoyment, always. Play it safe with any of his books, but with this one Cynical stories, Slave of love e The painted veil fly to heaven. After you, Talks about Lidia Ravera, race narrator, I bought it despite the ending a bit ‘gne. Cross the walls, the autobiography of Marina Abramovich, I liked it a lot: Marina’s most beautiful work of art is Marina. Bobby from Roberto Calasso it is poignant. Meme Scianca, also of Calasso – especially childhood memories – is beautiful but more normal. (Hi Calasso, thanks for Adelphi and for everything). The Letters from Africa from Karen Blixen – attached to a 2002 female found in the vacation home – I’m succulent and I guess I’ll re-read My Africa. Of Society without pain ed Eros in agony from Byung-Chul Han, very interesting, I will talk to you better and in any case I do not recommend them to read on vacation so as not to get angry or depressed. That said, the advice is actually always the same: take your time, go to the bookstore and listen. Books call you. Do not follow anyone’s advice, not even mine, listen to them, the books: every reading has its moment. Happy holiday.
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