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Romano Vecchiet
The great masters of Italian literature (from Manzoni to Pirandello, from Primo Levi to Luciano Bianciardi to Umberto Eco) have not been particularly distinguished for their appreciation of libraries and, in general, of the Italian library service; on the contrary. By belittling its cultural, social and educational function, they especially ridiculed the “officiants” of such institutions, the librarians, exasperating their negative traits. Out of these considerations and the subsequent encounter between a librarian (the author of this article) and actor Giorgio Monte, a play was created in which a retired librarian and an impertinent reader engage in close dialogue, exasperating the “keeper of the books” among clichés and other amenities. The performance ends with a series of readings (taken from writings by Andrea Bajani, Paolo Rumiz, Luis Sepúlveda and Pier Luigi Cappello) in which the book becomes the real protagonist of the story
