A blog from As "I have read," can not even deal with the vexed question about the relationship of the Italians with the reading and, more generally, with the culture. Periodically, leading researchers tell of a country in which the number of players continues to shrink. There are, on the other hand, surveys that support a reversal trend, especially in the younger population.
The most important aspect in my opinion the question was addressed by the fine article by Edoardo Nesi Republic appeared on September 1, 2010, If everyone loves the culture and no one reads a book .
In August 2009 the author has traveled the length and breadth of Italy to shoot the new film by Elisabetta Sgarbi, If you have a mountain of snow, keep it in the shade . The idea for the film was to play a kind of inquiry non-academic and non-statistical state of culture in Italy. They were interviewing a lot of people asking them what was the culture and what they thought. If you read it, and what. From Umberto Eco, to the girls who were walking in the night in Campo de 'Fiori, a boatman on the river Po to Laura Morante.
The most interesting part, of course, comes from the answers of the "common people": the culture is important, very important. Too bad that, when they were asked if they read, the answer was almost always no. The importance of this film, I believe, lies in representing the absence of embarrassment in telling people that reading is fun, do not have time, "a document of culture in sull'irrilevanza discouraging formation of more or less liberal views of the vast majority of people.
splendid exception, those wonderful old who occasionally glimpsed in the film, and have to confess I did not read for decades they were ashamed and lowered their eyes, but then suddenly seemed to be how to collect and He began to recite from memory staring into the camera dozens of triplets shackled by the "Fifth Chant", toothless and smiling, happy for a moment, still and always madly in love with the memory of a book. "
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