The letter as an instrument to prolong dialogue and fill in the unspoken

The dense correspondence becomes a blow-up to shed further light on the Catanese author and actress. Edited by her husband Angelo Pellegrino, the posthumous collection Goliarda Sapienza. Lettere e biglietti (La Nave di Teseo) reveals the artist’s links with figures who, like her and with her, left their mark on the second half of the twentieth century.

Angelo Pellegrino is an actor and writer.

In conversation with Maria Rizzarelli, Univesity of Catania.