{"id":1781,"date":"2021-12-09T14:34:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T13:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tondelli.comune.correggio.re.it\/mouse-to-mouse\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T14:11:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:11:30","slug":"mouse-to-mouse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tondelli.comune.correggio.re.it\/en\/pier-vittorio-tondelli\/books-and-projects\/mouse-to-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouse to Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"130\" height=\"135\" class=\"wp-image-157\" src=\"https:\/\/tondelli.comune.correggio.re.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mousetomouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>As in &#8220;Progetto Under 25&#8221; [The Under 25 Project], for &#8220;Mouse to Mouse&#8221; &#8211; a series published by Mondadori in 1988 &#8211; Tondelli&#8217;s place was in editorial direction, in the role of &#8220;authoritative&#8221; reader. In fact, he emphasised, &#8220;As a reader &#8211; and in the final analysis &#8220;Under 25&#8243; is a work of applied reading &#8211; enthusiasm is fundamental&#8221;.<\/p>\r\n<p>The idea solidified into a series of volumes &#8211; with an identifying logo drawn by the artist Luis Frangella and the caption &#8220;texts chosen by Pier Vittorio Tondelli&#8221; &#8211; published by Mondadori in the spring of 1988.<\/p>\r\n<p>Tondelli thought of it like this, &#8221; &#8216;Mouse to Mouse&#8217; is the name of an editorial &#8216;group&#8217; rather than a &#8216;series&#8217; with very precise literary characteristics. &#8216;Mouse to Mouse&#8217; would rather explore those cultural territories not immediately ascribed to literature and its practices, those non-marginal and non-emergent places in society. Therefore it looks for narration in the worlds of fashion, publicity, figurative art, show business, rock music \u2026 &#8216;Mouse to Mouse&#8217; favours young authors and offers itself as an agile instrument in the hands of talented newcomers. &#8216;Mouse to Mouse&#8217; wants narratives that express the changes in writing and society. It wants to account for ; how the pleasure of literature is spreading amongst the young and the emergent ; and how writing is a vital practice for them in their search for truth&#8221;.<\/p>\r\n<p>The first and only titles published were &#8220;Fotomodella&#8221; [Fashion Model] by Elisabetta Valentini and &#8220;Hotel Oasis&#8221; by Gianni De Martino. The program designed by Tondelli had been much vaster and had foreseen a volume by Paolo Landi on snobbery and fashion (put out later on by Lupetti &amp; C. in 1991, entitled &#8220;Lo snobismo di massa&#8221; [Snobbery of the Masses], with an introduction by Tondelli).<\/p>\r\n<p>And again, as the writer had noted, &#8220;In the future, if the reader acceptance and critical acclaim should be favourable, we could see the career launching of several twenty-year-olds already chosen for the &#8220;Under 25&#8221; anthology. And also, a Mouse\/Christmas-gift-book of exotic stories by the painter Luigi Ontani with a layout similar to Blake&#8217;s (or a bit like Tolkein&#8217;s), naturally in the post-modern sense.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1988<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1788,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tondelli.comune.correggio.re.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tondelli.comune.correggio.re.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tondelli.comune.correggio.re.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tondelli.comune.correggio.re.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tondelli.comune.correggio.re.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tondelli.comune.correggio.re.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1821,"href":"https:\/\/tondelli.comune.correggio.re.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1781\/revisions\/1821"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tondelli.comune.correggio.re.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tondelli.comune.correggio.re.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tondelli.comune.correggio.re.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}