Davide Enia

Appunti per un naufragio

A moving firsthand account of migrant landings on the island of Lampedusa that gives voice to refugees, locals, and volunteers while also exploring a deeply personal father-son relationship. On the island of Lampedusa, the southernmost part of Italy, between Africa and Europe, Davide Enia looks in the faces of those who arrive and those who wait, and tells the story of an individual and collective shipwreck. On one side, a multitude in motion, crossing entire nations and then the Mediterranean Sea under conditions beyond any imagination. On the other, a handful of men and women on the border of an era and a continent, trying to welcome the newcomers. In the middle is the author himself, telling of what actually happens at sea and on land, and the failure of words in the attempt to understand the present paradoxes. Enia reveals the emotional consequences of this touching and disconcerting reality, especially in his relationship with his father, a recently retired doctor who agrees to travel with him to Lampedusa. Witnessing together the public pain of those who land and those who save them from death, alongside the private pain of his uncle's illness, pushes them to reinvent their relationship, to forge a new and unprecedented dialogue that replaces the silences of the past.

A Story of Refugees, Borders, and Hope

Notes on a Shipwreck

«Este livro é um romance. Conta o que está a acontecer no Mediterrâneo – as travessias, os salvamentos, os desembarques, as mortes – e fala da relação entre mim e o meu pai, abordando ainda a doença do meu tio, seu irmão.» É assim que Davide Enia apresenta Notas sobre Um Naufrágio, um livro que parte da sua experiência em Lampedusa, lugar de um naufrágio simultaneamente individual e coletivo.De um lado, estão os que atravessaram vários países, e depois o mar, para chegarem à Europa em condições inimagináveis – rapazes feridos e nus, raparigas estupradas e grávidas, crianças e adultos que viram morrer familiares durante a travessia. Do outro, homens e mulheres que os ajudam a desembarcar – voluntários, mergulhadores, pessoal médico, a Guarda Costeira... No meio, o autor, para os ouvir a todos e contar sem paninhos quentes o que realmente acontece em terra e no mar e como as palavras são manifestamente insuficientes para compreender os paradoxos do presente.

Notas Sobre Um Naufrágio

Italia-Brasile 3 a 2 ; Maggio '43 ; Scanna

Teatro

Davidù sale sul ring per la prima volta a nove anni. Cresciuto senza un padre - il Paladino, pugile fenomenale, morto poco prima della sua nascita - in una Palermo sporca, violenta e luminosa, sotto la protezione del gigantesco zio Umbertino e dell'enigmatico nonno Rosario, ci racconta cinquant'anni di storia, dalle bombe della seconda guerra mondiale a quelle di mafia del '92, accompagnato da una schiera di personaggi memorabili: il compagno di giochi Gerruso, il Maestro di boxe Franco, il tenente D'Arpa, la saggia nonna Provvidenza, Nina dalla bocca di gelso e altri ancora. Le loro storie si intrecciano le une nelle pieghe delle altre, delineando con grazia e ferocia il ritratto di una famiglia, di una città e di un mondo perennemente in battaglia.

Così in terra

"Le ciel si proche qu'il vous tombe presque sur les épaules. La voix omniprésente du vent. La lumière qui frappe de partout. Et devant les yeux, toujours, la mer, éternelle couronne de joie et d'épines. Les éléments s'abattent sur l'île sans rien qui les arrête. Pas de refuge. On y est transpercé, traversé par la lumière et le vent. Sans défense". Un père et un fils regardent l'Histoire se dérouler sous leurs yeux, dans l'immensité de la Méditerranée, à Lampedusa. La loi de la mer est le récit de la fragilité de la vie et des choses, où l'expérience de la douleur collective rencontre celle, intime, du rapprochement entre deux êtres. Pendant plus de trois ans, sur cette île entre Afrique et Europe, l'écrivain et dramaturge Davide Enia a rencontré habitants, secouristes, exilés, survivants. En se mesurant à l'urgence de la réalité, il donne aux témoignages recueillis la forme d'un récit inédit, littéraire et poétique, déjà couronné par le prestigieux prix Mondello en Italue. Après Sur cette terre comme au ciel, récompensé par le prix du Premier roman étranger, Davide Enia confirme son talent singulier et puissant.

La loi sur la mer

A dark, gripping coming-of-age tale that explores violence, friendship, family, and what it means to be a man Summer, Palermo, early 1980s. The air hangs hot and heavy. The Mafia-ruled city is a powder keg ready to ignite. In a boxing gym, a fatherless nine-year-old boy climbs into the ring to face his first opponent. So begins On Earth as It Is in Heaven, a sweeping multigenerational saga that reaches back to the collapse of the Italian front in North Africa and forward to young Davidù's quest to become Italy's national boxing champion, a feat that has eluded the other men of his family. But Davide Enia, whose layered, lyrical, nonchronological novel caused a sensation when it was published in Italy in 2012, has crafted an epic that soars in miniature as well. The brutal struggles for dominance among Davidù's all male circle of friends; his strict but devoted grandmother, whose literacy is a badge of honor; his charismatic and manipulative great-uncle, who will become his trainer—the vicious scenes and sometimes unsympathetic characters Enia sketches land hard and true.On Earth as It Is in Heaven is both firmly grounded in what Leonardo Sciascia liked to call "Sicilitude" - the language and mentality of that eternally perplexing island - and devastatingly universal. A meditation on physical violence, love and sex, friendship and betrayal, boxing and ambition, Enia's novel is also a coming-of-age tale that speaks - sometimes crudely, but always honestly - about the joys and terrors of becoming a man.

A Novel

On Earth as It Is in Heaven

Davidù po raz pierwszy staje na ringu w wieku dziewięciu lat. Bokserem był jego nieżyjący ojciec i wujek, który mu go zastępuje. Nic więc dziwnego, że od chłopca oczekuje się, że zdobędzie tytuł mistrza Włoch, który wymknął się z rąk członkom jego rodziny. Opowiadając dzieje trzech pokoleń rodziny pięściarzy z Palermo, autor prowadzi nas przez pięćdziesiąt lat włoskiej historii, od drugiej wojny światowej aż do krwawego roku 1992, kiedy to bomby powróciły do Palermo, już nie za sprawą wojny, ale mafijnych porachunków. To opowieść o przyjaźni, miłości, nadziejach i porażkach, i o boksie, który jest zarówno treścią życia, jak i jego metaforą. „Davide Enia stworzył doskonałą epopeję z galerią barwnych postaci udręczonych przez własne doświadczenia i nadzieje”. Vanity Fair

Tak i na ziemi

Palerme, années 1980. Comme tous les garçons de son âge, Davidù, neuf ans, fait l'apprentissage de la vie dans les rues de son quartier. Amitiés, rivalités, bagarres, premiers émois et désirs pour Nina, la fillette aux yeux noirs qui sent le citron et le sel, et pour laquelle il ira jusqu'à se battre sous le regard fier de son oncle Umbertino. Car si Pullara, Danilo, Gerruso rêvent de devenir ouvrier ou pompiste comme leurs pères, Davidù, qui n'a pas connu le sien, a hérité de son talent de boxeur. Entre les légendes du passé et les ambitions futures, le monde des adultes et la poésie de l'enfance, Davide Enia, finaliste du prix Strega, tisse le destin d'une famille italienne, de l'après-guerre aux années 90, à travers trois générations d'hommes dont le jeune Davidù incarne les rêves. Entremêlant leurs histoires avec brio, il dresse un portrait vibrant de sa terre, la Sicile, et de ceux qui l'habitent. « Un premier roman remarquable, véritable phénomène littéraire. » La Repubblica

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