"I don't think we will be better after the pandemic. I believe that any unexpected, anything unexpected that gets you out of your routine, which can also simply be left by your wife rather than being fired or an illness, gives you the opportunity to review the your life from another point of view and therefore the possibility of improving and seeing mistakes ". Fabio Volo, upon his arrival at the Il Libro Possibile Festival in Polignano a Mare (Bari), for the third year supported by Pirelli, after months of lockdown, talks about the health emergency we have experienced.
"I think this experience is a great opportunity for people, for societies and nations, but it is not automatically understood that those who know how to do it will evolve" he says to ANSA before presenting his new book 'A great desire to vivere '(Mondadori), in a square of a thousand people sitting in Lungomare Colombo, in compliance with all the safety rules, with incursions by Dario Vergassola.
How did you experience the pandemic? "Maybe it's a little disrespectful to say it, but I have lived it very well. In the sense that I have not suffered like others, I have not lost any affections, friends. I was immediately locked in the house, but I have many passions that develop almost all inside an apartment: reading, writing, cooking. It was not a great trauma, so much so that when I was able to go out I stayed at home. The others came out, which is already good, "he explains without ever removing his mask with his written 'This is a mask'.
Will Coronavirus change the way you write? "It depends on what kind of book you write. If you tell the company - unless in a few months everything returns to normal with a vaccine and therefore, it was only a moment - I think it will be seen in the movies".
In your latest 'A great desire to live' what does it tell us? "It is the story of a crisis of a couple, of a family in which there is no betrayal, a quarrel that marks something. They are simply two people who are together and one day they realize they have left. They take a trip around for the world also with the attempt to resolve this crisis.
Is it the first time at the Polignano Festival? "Vergassola has been inviting me for ten years, but I am never in Italy in the summer and this year I will stay with Covid until August. I decided to work in June and July to recover some of the things left behind" he explains.
"I hope that as soon as possible there will be the possibility of being together at a concert, in the cinema, in the theater" he says before going on stage on a windy evening.
