Antonella Boralevi: “I’ll tell you about Magnifica Creatura, my new book”

They call her “inner goddess”, “soul”, “true self” or, to use the poetic description of the writer Antonella Boralevi, Magnificent creature. It is the name of the twenty-fifth book of him, the sequel to All the sun there is (a success with 25 thousand copies), and arrived a few days ago in bookstores to tell the essence of uniqueness that everyone brings with them (La nave di Teseo, pp. 496, 20 euros).

In the novel, she is discovered by two opposite sisters, Ottavia and Verdiana, descendants of the Counts Valiani and raised in the economic boom of Tuscany in the 1950s.. The story continues for a couple of decades, in a swing of emotions and twists, as he tells Vanity Fair on the other end of the phone the journalist and screenwriter, between fervor and emotion.

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Who is the Magnificent creature we are talking about?
«Inside each of us, men and women, a magnificent creature sleeps. Men find it more easily, used to understanding that they have been valid for millennia, we women instead have buried it under layers of habits, emotions and prejudices. We believe we are the person that others – our mother, boyfriend, friends, everyone – tell us we are, instead we are different from how they tell us: within us we find the ‘real us’ and we need a work of recognition to take it out. It’s tiring but it changes your life. That’s why I look at this as an aspirational novel, which takes you by the hand. It is a fabulous story, a fantastic journey with a couple of protagonists struggling with descents and climbs, victories and defeats ».

Has this happened to you with writing?
«To write is to be in contact with feelings, permeable to the life of others with empathy. Stories are the magma of life. I don’t do it to talk about myself, but about something else from me, in this case of an aristocratic family whose history mixes with those who made themselves, in a period in which Italy returns to dreaming, between Martini and Five hundred. To paint this era with words, I studied for four or five months, watched videos, news programs, programs and read many books. I feel like Mary Poppins jumping into the drawing on the sidewalk: I put a story in front of it and the reader jumps into it. ‘

What is expected of this new chapter?
“This novel may have been written by Isabelle Allende because it has twists and turns that seem like lies, revenge and admiration are found in it, in short, it is overwhelming.”


Source: Vanity Fair

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