"What makes us unhappy? If you never ask the strays? No, they follow the path, surrounded by a night blind, covered only by a pain Eric " (The kite, Veronica Tomassini) Veronica Tomassini, journalist, Sicily, but of Umbrian origin, has published" The Kite "(Emanuele Romeo, 2002)," Outsider "(A & B Publishing, 2006 ), "The city says. Stories of ordinary survival "(Emanuele Romeo Editore, 2008). A few days ago in Library "Blood of a Dog" Lovran of the newly formed publishing company, the brainchild of Calogero Garlisi, the CEO of Melampus.
Six "circumcenter" in ideas, and Slavophile (no excuses, you said). Tell us which means Tell us about yourself.
circumcenter does not mean anything to the truth, a description is ironic, playful, which I used on the Facebook profile (of the devilry of facebook). I can not say much about me: I write for a living and why I always have. I am a Slavophile because my musical tastes, my reading, certain directors who have loved, come from that promontory. I loved Russian literature, perhaps influenced me, I still recognize the value of the absolute realism of Gogol, his heroes upside down, humiliated and offended, parodosso of the plight of the underprivileged, on which rested its sleek look and a shrill laugh, Prampolini said, while the player choked by the bitterness and melancholy.
In "Blood of a Dog" is Sicily and there is the bourgeoisie. What is Sicily? And that is middle class?
There is a very popular Sicily, the most culturally diverse, the more distracted. This Sicilia has lost its connotations and does not give the plot cliches. There is no middle class, a class is missing a piece in Sicily more than ever. Nothing to do with atmosphere and interior of trazzere and blades of prickly pears, which are typical of a certain literary tradition of Southern Italy. In the novel there is a valid complaint, powerful in this sense, perhaps improperly use the adjective bourgeois (which makes me think the neo-realism, it would be more appropriate to place it there, within a novel by Moravia, in the manner and tone of eternal Andreina de ambitions are wrong), rather than middle-class would have meant the "just world", respectable, educated. Sicily offers an alleged 
to formal, global and anonymous.
is also the story of an impossible love, but true. That is intertwined with the issue of immigration and integration. Where the "other" is the young Italian girl that travels from one life to another.
A young woman of good family who falls for a Polish man, without a fixed home. It is the abyss.
lose everything, what you immerse yourself forgetting is, born again, perhaps. There is hope in your novel?
Love is hope, even demanding his bond of allegiance. A condition that must atone noble and high, having healed, saved, built.
There is the idea of \u200b\u200ba Higher Will the events of your novel. What is your relationship with the faith, religions?
If not God who was the one who held the front of the vulgar, who raised his arms useless without a bum stomach, buried by his excrement, which gathered in its precious blood of the bottle, burnt dall'abiezione? Who was the one who wiped tears dell'accattone sick of alcohol and solitude in a hospital room? I call him Father.
"I believe that writing should be done wrong, find out the nerves and cause short circuits. The writers are too lenient with the world around, looking for fame and profit, a slice of any cake. I am interested in illuminating areas of darkness, with my stories, my characters, my style. Within that there are too dark, we all of us. "Luigi Bernardi. "I want a comforting and disturbing literature" Wu Ming 1. What do you think? What does "hurt" "Disturbing"? That 's what you want?
do not know, maybe so, a lot comes from an existential pain or an existential boredom, but I can not say if this is the point, sometimes I feel close to writing a great nostalgia. The writing comes from a mysterious place where every voice has already met.
What do you feel about this "mysterious place"? How do you get the stories, words, colors, smells and people that r then 
IESC to put in your lines?
I repeat, is not translatable. Things are there, you have to leave that normally surface, such as narcissus, on the water surface.
How did you get your fourth to publish this book? What is your history as a writer?
I came to this book thanks to the generous work of the writer Giulio Mozzi talent scout. He had read my stuff before, was placed in Catania. He said, "now you have to write the story that lies behind all others, now is the time." So it was. Giulio Mozzi supported me so far, up to Laurana, continues to do so, his advice is invaluable. Also I have to say thanks to Marco Travaglio, who read the novel, when it still had a publisher, it seemed very strong and offered to read from Garlisi Calogero, founder of Melampus (publishing house specializing in nonfiction). It 'was a nice gesture on his part. Garlisi but I seem to know it has always been so positive, so excited. In a blink, he founded a new publishing house, Laurana, investing in my novel. Then there's Gabriel Dadati, editor and infallible press office Laurana (young and talented writer), and the graph Daniele Ceccherini. Then there are other good authors, already in the catalog: Massimo Cassani ('A little farther "), Marco Bosonetto (" In the great show of democracy "), Antonio Pagliaro (" Dogs of Lincoln street "). I was lucky, I met the right people, fair and generous.
What are you reading? There is a book that has impressed you lately?
I'm reading Cesare Pavese, "Before the cock crows." In the reprint of 1974, is an Oscar Mondadori.
