The Path of Bookishes.

A demanding customer.

In the above photograph : my purchase at the 9th ‘Festa del Libro e della Lettura – La Via dei Librai’, which took place in Palermo from April 23rd to 28th, 2024/ ‘Quaderni giapponesi – Un viaggio nell’impero dei segni’ di IgorT[1] (Oblomov edizioni 2023).

A child is a demanding customer : he, or she, agrees to study from a book purchased specifically for this purpose – and with some profit certainly. But when he - or she - decides to read must first have browsed, noted, compared, set aside.

And only then does he – or she - appropriate it.

Marina Bilotta Membretti, Cernusco sul Naviglio 28 ottobre 2024

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[1] Master of the graphic novel and illustrator, screenwriter, director, musician, Igor Tuveri – or Igort – is born in 1958 at Cagliari : he starts in Bologna, and he publishes already at the end of 1970s. His first solo album is released in 1980, published by Italian Records and entitled ‘Radetzky e gli isotopi’; now he is a regular collaborator of Linus, Frigidaire, Alter Alter, L’echo des Savanes, Vanity e The Face. In 1983 he is among the founders of Valvoline, a few years later he is in Paris with Metal Hurlant, among whose founders is Moebius. In the 90s he moves to Tokyo, where since 1991 he begins a collaboration with the publishing house Kodansha, which will last fifteen years. In 2000 he is co-founder with Carlo Barbieri of the publishing house Coconino Press. In 2002 he publishes ‘5 è il numero perfetto’, which in 2003 wins the award for the best book of the year at the ‘Bookfair’ of Frankfurt and which in 2019 becomes a movie starring – among others - Toni Servillo, Valeria Golino, Carlo Buccirosso, directed and dramatized by Igort : it is previewed at the Festival of Venice, and then presented at several other international Festivals. Again with ‘Coconino Press’ Igort publishes ‘Fats Waller’. Then the series ‘Baobab’ starts. In 2010 he already lived in Ukraine and in Russia, and with Mondadori he publishes ‘Quaderni ucraini’, to which ‘Quaderni russi’ follows and in 2014 ‘Quaderni giapponesi’. In 2017 he announces he is leaving ‘Coconino Press’ and so ‘Quaderni giapponesi’-vol.2 comes out for ‘Oblomov Edizioni’ : in 2018 he receives the audience award at the ‘Biografilm Festival’ of Bologna. Again in 2018 he is appointed director of Linus. In 2019 ‘Quaderni giapponesi’ are shown at the British Museum at the exhibition about ‘manga’ at care of Paul Gravett. In 2023 (May-September) the exhibition ‘Igort. Attraversare le forme’ is presented at Pisa, ‘Palazzo Blu’.