by Gianrico Carofiglio · Rizzoli · tapa dura · ISBN 9788817043687
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«La manomissione delle parole» is the literary essay by Gianrico Carofiglio, published by Rizzoli in hardcover (187 pages, in Italian).
Carofiglio reflects on how language can be manipulated by power and proposes restoring its ability to name reality. He recovers five words from the civil lexicon —shame, justice, rebellion, beauty and choice— and examines them with references to Aristotle, Primo Levi and the Constitution, in a literary, political and ethical analysis.
First edition published in 2010 in the Scala italiani collection, edited by Margherita Losacco.
For readers interested in language, politics and ethics, with a taste for the literary essay.
Gianrico Carofiglio is an Italian novelist and former anti-Mafia judge in the city of Bari. His debut novel, Involuntary Witness, published in 2002 and translated into English in 2005 by Patrick Creagh, was published by the Bitter Lemon Press and has been adapted as the basis for a popular television series in Italy. The subsequent novels were translated by Howard Curtis and Antony Shugaar.
