Festival overview in English

Cagliari, Sunday 5 October

Mondadori Bookstore, Via Roma 63/65

5:00 PM – Laura Pugno, L’oltre. Poesia, Terzo paesaggio, Terza natura? – Il Saggiatore, 2025 with the participation of Francesco Ottonello 

#deragliamento no. 74 “The Man with the Suitcase” with Massimo Carnicella

6:30 PM – Anna Maria Farabbi, Viaggi elementali – Qed, 2025 with the participation of Rossana Abis

7:30 PM – Roberta Castoldi, L’aria che passa. Conversazioni con Franco Loi – AnimaMundi, 2024 

Monserrato, Wednesday 8 October

Monserratoteca, Via Porto Cervo 2

6:00 PM – Reading session with Maria Loi on Lo sbilico by Alcide Pierantozzi – Einaudi, 2025 – 

Monserrato, Thursday 9 October

Spazio Sirio, Ass. Sirio Sardegna Teatro, Via 31 Marzo 1943, 29 (*)

5:00 PM, streaming – Giancarlo Turra, Nick Drake – Tuttle Edizioni, 2025 with the participation of Leonardo Diana

#deragliamento no. 102 – “Suspended Time” with Claire Head

6:00 PM, streaming – Aldo Nove, Inabissarsi – Il Saggiatore, 2025

7:00 PM – Meeting with Enrico De Angelis, Vi giuro che ho volato. Rivediamo e raccontiamo Jacques Brel, with the participation of Fausto Siddi – 

(*) curated by Mondadori Bookstore, Via Roma 63/65 – Cagliari

Cagliari, Friday 10 October

Teatro Houdini, Via Molise 2 (*)

#deragliamento no. 1740 “The Disguised Encounter” with Alberto Lecca

5:45 PM – Enrico De Angelis, Enrico Deregibus, Luigi Tenco. Lontano, lontano – Il Saggiatore, 2024 and Piero Ciampi, Siamo in cattive acque – Squilibri, 2025 with Nathalia Sales (voice), Roberto Bernardini (guitar), Ludovico Sebastian Muroni (trumpet) 

7:30 PM – Marco Corsi, Nel dopo – Guanda, 2025 with Silvia Murgia

Food event and buffet curated by Associazione Diversamente ODV

#deragliamento no. 637 “The Great Chaos of Birger Sellin” – Multiple Authors

9:00 PM – Giorgia Protti, La giusta distanza dal male – Einaudi, 2025 with the participation of Marisa Caruso

(*) curated by Libreria Miele Amaro, Via Manno 88 – Cagliari

Cagliari, Saturday 11 October

Aula Magna Motzo, Faculty of Humanities, in collaboration with the Department of Pedagogy, Psychology and Philosophy, University of Cagliari

10:30 AM – Silvio Raffo, Oscar Wilde, Il vizio supremo – De Piante Editore, 2025

Monserrato, Saturday 11 October

Spazio Sirio, Ass. Sirio Sardegna Teatro, Via 31 Marzo 1943, 29 (*)

4:45 PM – Matteo Moca, Una consunzione infinita. Il segreto dell’opera di Fleur Jaeggy – Italo Svevo, 2024 with Maria Loi and Leonardo Diana

#deragliamento no. 713 –  “The Gaze within the Other” – Multiple Authors

5:45 PM – Giorgiomaria Cornelio, L’ufficio delle tenebre – Tlon, 2025 with Francesco Ottonello 

6:45 PM – Francesco Occhetto, Dovrò prepararmi a fiorire. Poetesse iraniane dal Novecento a oggi – AnimaMundi, 2025 with Maria Loi

7:45 PM – Meeting with Silvio Raffo, Is there a fuller joy in waiting? The theme of waiting in poetry from the Middle Ages to today

(*) curated by Mondadori Bookstore, Via Roma 63/65 – Cagliari

Sestu, Sunday 12 October

Mondadori MA Bookstore @ La Corte del Sole

10:45 AM. – Antonio Rezza, Il fattaccio – La nave di Teseo, 2023 in collaboration with Sardegna Teatro

5:00 PM – Donata Meneghelli, Il valore degli oggetti. Segni, spoglie, scarti nel romanzo dell’Ottocento fra Balzac, James e Dickens – Nottetempo, 2024 with Maria Loi 

6:00 PM – Giorgio Bona, Volevo soltanto salvare le mie parole. Il dramma dell’esistenza di Osip Mandel’štam – Arkadia, 2025 with Senio G. B. Dattena

#deragliamento no. 713“Tea-mporality” with Claire Head

7:00 PM. – Meeting with Silvio Raffo, L’enigma del tempo. Waiting and anguish in modern narrative and theatre

Cagliari, Thursday 16 October

Cinema Odissea, Viale Trieste 84

Società Umanitaria – Cineteca Sarda di Cagliari, in collaboration with Associazione ReFraming and Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission, presents:

7:00 PM. – Meeting with director Ross Lipman: Samuel Beckett’s Films, curated by Antonello Zanda (Cineteca Sarda) and Mauro Pala (University of Cagliari) 

8:00 PM – Screening: NotFilm by Ross Lipman, 2015 

Iglesias, Friday 17 October

Sala Remo Branca, Piazza Municipio (*)

4:30 PM – Fra color che son sospesi, dance-theatre performance with Luana Maoddi and Carlotta Zamuner, in collaboration with Asmed – Balletto di Sardegna

5:30 PM – Franca Mancinelli, Tutti gli occhi che ho aperto – Marcos y Marcos, 2020 with Rossana Abis

#deragliamento no. 7014 “Interwoven Threads” – Multiple Authors

6:30 PM – Gianni Usai, La sola notte – Il Maestrale, 2025 with Alessandro Muroni 

#deragliamento no. 7015 “Chaos of Interwoven Threads” – Multiple Authors

7:30 PM – Andrea Franzoni, Ciò che illumina sorge due volte. Diario di un cammino – Textus, 2024 with Franca Mancinelli 

(*) curated by Libreria LibrArt, Via Antonio Gramsci 3 – Villaspeciosa

Iglesias, Saturday 18 October

Sala Remo Branca, Piazza Municipio (*)

5:00 PM – Tommaso Giartosio, Autobiogrammatica – Minimum Fax, 2024 with Andrea Franzoni and Franca Mancinelli 

#deragliamento no. 609 –  “The Little Man on the Wire” – Multiple Authors

6:00 PM – Mauro Garofalo, Il mago dell’aria. L’infanzia immaginaria di Philippe Petit, il funambolo delle torri gemelle – Mondadori, 2024 with Leonardo Diana

#deragliamento no. 72 – “The Mask and the Face” – Multiple Authors

7:00 PM – Silvia Albertazzi, Leonard Cohen. Manuale per vivere nella sconfitta – Paginauno, 2025

8:00 PM – Leonard Cohen and the Search for Beauty, musical performance with Raoul Moretti (electric harp), Ludovico Sebastian Muroni (horn, trumpet), Alessandro Muroni (piano, voice) in collaboration with Ente Concerti Città di Iglesias 

Iglesias, Sunday 19 October

Sala Remo Branca, Piazza Municipio (*)

4:45 PM – Davide Forte, Granelli di sabbia. Poesie e racconti dal carcere di Is Arenas – Catartica, 2025 with Silvia Murgia

6:00 PM – Elena Pontiggia, Maria Lai. Tenendo per mano l’ombra – 5 Continents Editions, 2024 

#deragliamento no. 714“The Hourglass of Tea” – Multiple Authors

7:00 PM – Corde vibranti, musical performance with Mübin Dünen (santur) and Raoul Moretti (electric harp)

(*) curated by Libreria LibrArt, Via Antonio Gramsci 3 – Villaspeciosa

Villaspeciosa, Tuesday 21 October

LibrArt, Via Antonio Gramsci 3

6:00 PM – Reading session with Maria Loi on Il dio del fuoco by Paola Mastrocola – Einaudi, 2024

Cagliari, Wednesday 22 October

Mondadori Bookstore, Via Roma 63/65, in collaboration with Società Umanitaria – Cineteca Sarda

5:30 PM – Gabriele Frasca, Il dolce Stil No. Un accompagnamento all’opera di Samuel Beckett – Cuepress, 2024 with Antonello Zanda

#deragliamento no. 401“Nothing Is Left to Say” with Alberto Lecca

7:00 PM – Meeting on the poetry of Gabriele Frasca, with the editorial board of Erbafoglio, journal of poetic cultur

Cagliari, Thursday 23 October

Classroom 2A, “Corpo Aggiunto”, Faculty of Humanities, in collaboration with the Department of Pedagogy, Psychology and Philosophy, University of Cagliari

10:30 AM – Meeting with Gabriele Frasca, Il nulla positivo. Gli scritti di Theodor W. Adorno su Samuel Beckett – L’Orma, 2019

Monserrato, Thursday 23 October

Spazio Sirio, Ass. Sirio Sardegna Teatro, Via 31 Marzo 1943, 29 (*)

6:00 PM – Gabriele Frasca, Beckett. Romanzi, teatro, televisione (first part: the novels) – I Meridiani Mondadori, 2024

#deragliamento no. 2111“What Remains of the Suitcase” with Massimo Carnicella

7:00 PM – Gianluca Solla, La vita sghemba. Aki Kaurismäki alla fine del mondo – Cronopio, 2025 with Antonello Zanda

8:00 PM – Rien ne va plus, with Fausto Siddi and Ludovico Sebastian Muroni

(*) curated by Mondadori Bookstore, Via Roma 63/65 – Cagliari

Cagliari, Friday 24 October

Classroom 2A, “Corpo Aggiunto”, Faculty of Humanities, in collaboration with the Department of Pedagogy, Psychology and Philosophy, University of Cagliari

10:30 AM – Meeting with Nicola Turrini, Fernand Deligny and the Unpredictable Image of “Filming” 

Monserrato, Friday 24 October

Mondadori MA Bookstore @ La Corte del Sole

#deragliamento no. 17“The No” with Marco Caredda

5:45 PM – Meeting with Nicola Turrini, Fernand Deligny e I vagabondi efficaci, with Roberta Fadda, Alberto Lecca, and Maria Loi

7:00 PM – Gabriele Frasca, Beckett. Romanzi, teatro, televisione (second part: theatre and television) – I Meridiani Mondadori, 2024 with Senio G. B. Datten

(*) curated by Mondadori Bookstore, Via Roma 63/65 – Cagliari

“Lo sguardo, il filo, l’attesa”, ispirato ai personaggi dei romanzi e del teatro di Samuel Beckett

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