Emanuele Trevi describes the two lives of Rocco Carbone and Pia Pera, writers and intellectuals who died prematurely some time ago and linked, during their short existence, by deep friendship. This book is the way to keep them close. Trevi narrates their personalities and their relationship with writing, defeats and euphorias, quarrels and unforgettable gestures. The author outlines the different natures, redesigns the traits, also shows the different behaviors. However, the style of uniqueness of this book reveals one of those ineffable events around which literature revolves: friendship. Due Vite (Neri Pozza) is a book capable of transforming intimacy and melancholy into literature, making them universal and bringing them closer to everyone's lives.

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Becoming from different background, from wealthy families or from emigrants, loved or lonely, admired or marginalized, the five women protagonists of this book all have a revolutionary desire: to investigate reality with their own feminine gaze, used to grasping unknown, intimate or neglected aspects of life, cultivating a daring art of indiscretion which is the exact opposite of indifference. They are five great photographers, different in character and destiny, but equally animated by the desire to change the image of the world. By finding beauty and pain where they had never been seen, whether it be love, politics, sex, poverty, war or body, the five women Tina Modotti, Dorothea Lange, Lee Miller, Diane Arbus and Francesca Woodman have little in common, due to their origin and personal history, but they share the same desire to tell the reality through photographic lens, tailored to their experience as women and what they have known, discovered and loved. With an intense and participatory writing, Elisabetta Rasy pursues the life and work of these five extraordinary women, animated by an unstoppable aspiration to freedom. Thanks to the Prize the book has been translated in English by Sian Gibby and published in the United States by Bordighera Press.

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