Tatà is the pet name for Tante, which means aunt in French.
There is no two without three, although Three is actually the second of Valérie Perrin‘s books I have read.
Valérie said she decided to write the story of an aunt after hearing a child shouting ‘Tatà!’
Does it ever happen to you that a single detail strikes you, turning into a kind of key to much bigger emotions or thoughts?
Where do you find your inspiration?
Valérie knows very well how to write a successful book, I imagine her a bit like an expert cook who uses many ingredients with the knowledge that they are right for the end result.
Tatà is set in Gueugnon in Burgundy, the author’s place of origin and deep province.
Gueugnon is famous for its local soccer team which has reached very high levels. Valérie’s father was a footballer in this team.
The heart of the story is told on the first page: the protagonist discovers that her aunt has re-dead.
Yes: re-dead, a term coined to represent the fact that she is told of the death of her aunt who has actually already been dead for three years.
Understanding how this is possible leads to the discovery of an aunt as immense as she is submerged like an iceberg.
Abandoned Discos is Max Pezzali’s new song for Warner Music.
The title makes no secret of the subject, but what struck me was the video: a sequence of images depicting the crumbling remains of what were once places full of life and joyful moments, now inexorably abandoned.
The suggestion is made even more incisive by the succession of phrases by the Gotha of disc jockeys, see for yourself:
Have you ever been to one of these discos?
I used to like Friday nights at Celebrity: a discotheque near Novara that actually still exists, where my friend Daniela and I would literally spend the whole time dancing, and at the same time managing to chat 🙂
But it was at Vanità where I went to meet the man who later became my husband <3
The Vanità, the disco in Vigevano portrayed in the picture below the title, no longer exists: a mansion complex was built in its place.
This is also why I find that Max Pezzali succeeds in narrating by giving us the sensation of listening to words coming straight out of our own mouths.
It is definitely his trademark, as well as the secret of his success: simply being one of us.
I’ll never forget a summer evening before social media, before even mobile phones: the TV broadcasts the Castrocaro new voices competition and a Jovanotti introduced a duo.
They come in and sing Don’t bother me, I don’t understand what you want, you knew I wasn’t like you...
For me it was immediate and natural to stay in tune.
Soon the songs from the album Hanno ucciso l’uomo ragno (They Killed Spider-Man ) would be the soundtrack of holidays in Sardinia, Daniela was there too 🙂
1993: the following summer. Life has one of those difficult trials in store for my family: having to face destiny that bursts in to make it clear how from one moment to the next everything can collapse.
While I am in hospital watching my father struggle to live again after a haemorrhage, I receive a gift: the North South West East music tape.
Yes: the ‘cassette’ … Who remembers it?
The guy I went to look for at Vanità 🙂 gave me North South West East and North South West East gave us our song to sing embracing each other at the concert in the Pavia arena.
The days of the San Siro stadium were still far away, and the 883 sang at their home: Pavia, exactly, which is also a province in the broadest sense.
Their home, our home.
The days when the dream of the 883 would come true were also far away.
The characters of the Harley Davidson Pavia staff are known to all those who followed the series Le strade di Max (Max roads), do you know it?
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