To tread the paths of Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s works is to delve into a tender and dramatic life experience. The author of Altri libertini and Camere separate, who was born in Correggio in 1955 and died only 36 years later, embraces a strong idea of literature understood as ‘watching the life of the world and recounting it’. In particular, in the works of his maturity, Tondelli fully reveals a profound reflection on the sense of limit, anguish and abandonment in a time marked by the exit from the primacy of the political – the 1970s – and the immersion in the vortex of the cultural and media postmodernism of the ‘great stuttering menagerie’. Antonio Spadaro, after decades of studying the author’s works and readings contained in the family library, restores to the reader all of Tondelli’s humanity and all the richness of his spiritual and existential journey.

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Antonio Spadaro

Antonio Spadaro (Messina, 1966) is a Jesuit, essayist, director of the magazine La Civiltà Cattolica and member of the board of directors of Georgetown University in Washington. He is the author of the first interview with Pope Francis, La mia porta è sempre aperta (2013). Among his numerous publications: Svolta di respiro (2010), Cyberteologia (2012), Nelle vene d’America (2013), Creature di caldo sangue e nervi (2020), Oltrecolore (2022) and Una trama divina (2023).

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