“About twenty years ago, a blogger asked me to comment on One Hundred Brush Strokes Before Bed, the debut novel by Melissa P., I made a violent, sexist and very stupid comment. Shortly thereafter, I personally went to apologize Melissa Panarello. I didn’t have the awareness I have today I realized I was wrong. Melissa accepted the apology, but it took her – quite rightly – a while to absorb the blow.” Those are the words with which Nicola LagioiaStrega Prize with La Ferocia and Director of the Turin Book Fair, begins a long post published on his Facebook page. Why is the writer going back to an event that happened 20 years ago and whose sexism and stupidity he even acknowledges? It all starts with some services broadcast by Strip the news right on the writer’s comment: “There’s only one thing to do with her. you take it You set it to ninety while leaning against a table. Then get Nabokov’s Lolita. Tear off the pages. You stick them one by one up her ass. After a while something inevitably assimilates through osmosis”, the words Lagioia spoke 20 years ago. Antonio Ricci’s satirical news reported on it and interviewed some personalities from the world of culture, to whom the commentary was read without naming the author: many therefore showed indignation and astonishment in favor of the camera. In the post, Lagioia explains how it took Panarello a while to accept his apology: “We had a fight again (she was right: of course). We saw each other sporadically, now more often. We became friends. We are connected by a relationship of appreciation and affection. If it’s wrong, it’s good to apologize and try to fix it. But here, 20 years later, the cameras of “Striscia la Notia”, on the occasion of the book fair, They pounced on Melissa to ask her about the facts of the time, and they invited other writers and cultural figures with the same arrogance to comment on this phrase (mostly without mentioning that it had been uttered in these circumstances almost 20 years ago, mystifying, manipulating, as transmission often does). The Striscia cameras came to the book fair last year, The service was instead not broadcast until the eve of that final show try to cause as much damage as possible. Immediately after the first broadcast, as controversy would not erupt, the Striscia cameras returned to the show that year and resumed operations. The author explains: “Since some of the authors interviewed know me and my work, they seemed surprised and incredulous at first. When they understood the deception Many of them protested They felt offended and tried to escape the cameras to avoid playing the game. Some reported the incident on their channels. Their protests were ignored, cut from editing. Melissa, who was disgraced by the attack, reported the incident on her social channels. Of course, her response was not reported by “Striscia”, who instead began attacking her in the transmission, accusing her of connivance. He attacked me to start a hate campaign that luckily ended in bankruptcy. Again: “The sentence for which I apologized 20 years ago and which was then published on a small blog that no longer exists, it has been restarted multiple times by Striscia at multiplied violence. It was even flown at the Salone by very aggressive people (also illegally as you need a permit to fly it). More the hate campaign of Striscia la Notia continuedi, more was not collected. People now know how this show works.” Then what the Strega prize writer says is the reason for these reports against him: “In 2009 I dared to criticize it publicly. Since then, media campaigns have been launched against me from time to time. This morning I spoke to one of their correspondents, I introduced myself to him and the cameras without waiting for an ambush. The correspondent tried to throw it in caciara, he told me that it’s a satirical show and that we have to laugh about it. But there’s not much to laugh about when it comes to causing people suffering. I will certainly make mistakes in the future (for those who meddle in public affairs, the possibility of error is not small): are they exploited in this way? Twenty years ago I apologized to Melissa Panarello, I would be willing to do it a thousand times over. My solidarity with you is total. Are the show’s writers ready to apologize for their media violence? I thank the working group of the Salone for the support of these days. I thank all those and all those who show solidarity for what happened”.
