In this period of necessary limitations, the innate desire to wander that makes Italians the dreaming community they are should not be dozed off. We can and must cultivate it. The readings di journey they do in our case. They have the power to lead us in other places, real or not, towards a elsewhere who knows how to open unexpected horizons. The publishing house Giulio Perrone it engages precisely in this. With the necklace Steps di Customs.
Passaggi di Dogana is dedicated to cities of timeless charm. Cities that have been the subject of inspiration for artists, writers, musicians. I want to place the books in the series at the service of the mind, let it enter empathy with that of authors who have really experienced those inspiring places, bearing an indelible trace, in the memory and in the works.
Thanks to these readings we can travel without permission. From region to region, for example, through Italy. From De André's Genoa, through Totò's Naples, to Carofiglio's Bari.
Maricarmela Leto, creator of the series, explains: “The idea of creating it came from reading I love cities and I love signs by Roland Barthes. Every space, urban or otherwise, can be significant in itself. It is the conscience of those who perceive it, and above all the story that derives from it, that makes it effectively endowed with a meaning that is often specific and unrepeatable ".
Cities gain beauty and sense thanks to the people who cross them and who meet there. To facilitate these intersections and contacts, Passaggi di Dogana offers the reader a passepartout, a blank boarding pass, without limitations - more than ever of value in a period in which any movement seems to be denied us.
Books help. Always. Not to feel alone. To recognize ourselves in the words and thoughts of other human beings, who sometimes lived hundreds of years ago. In short: they make us cross over. Nothing more therapeutic then, especially today.
Mariacarmela Leto says again: “With books we go where in reality we have not been, where perhaps we will never go. In books the metaphor of the journey finds its deepest application ".
The Passaggi di Dogana series makes us explore cities in a way we haven't done before. With new perspectives, colors, sensations. And it is easy for the reader to be infected by those who have lived through those cities and made them his own places of the heart. Places imprinted for life in the memory of those who described them. And for years and years still in that of those who will come and read.
