The Azuni bookstore of Sassari presents a new literary review devoted to the relationship to be people and the environment. Four agreements, from April 29 to July 8, to explore the contemporary environmental challenges and visions of a possible future in balance by novels, essays and speculative non-fiction
An assessment that is fully devoted to the environment
After consolidating his cultural dedication with assessments on comics, independent publication, yellow and fantastic literature, the Azuni Bookshop or Sassari proposes a new thematic path: “Future Planet – Four Books, Four Looks On The Nature that waits us”.
An initiative that sees different genres intertwined, from the fiction to the novel of research, but with a single common goal: reflect on current environmental crises and how sensitive Populations for the future.
The review is organized in collaboration with the University Library of Sassari with protagonists and important authors and authors in the national scene and offers aids of understanding and hope through literature.
Events from the past
The assessment has already seen three important meetings. During the first, Stefania amused He presented Death Nature (The Karsh), A study into environmental crime that proposes a new vision for the relationship between people and the environment, which recognizes its own rights.
It was therefore the turn of How we go out (Bompiani), a collective work edited by Fabio Deotto This speculative reflections of eight authors collect the possibility of overcoming the global ecological crisis.
Finally Loretta B. Angiori closed the cycle with Dragonfly in the network (Zone 42), a Solarpunk novel that investigates a post-catastrophic future in which freedom tests through automated systems and artificial intelligence.
July 8: Return time by Ferdinando Cotugno
The last meeting will see the protagonist Ferdinando Cotugnojournalist and writer, with “Return time” (Guanda). A novel research that crosses personal memory and ecological consciousness and tells the climatic collapse through the history of an Italian family and its industrial legacy.
The meeting with the author, moderated by Longobardi, will be a chance to think about the concept of “Ecological time” And about the responsibility of future generations.
A collective reflection to imagine a future
Planet Future is not only a literary review, but also an invitation to environmental consciousness.