In its history, the crime genre has gone from figures of dutiful and moderate investigators, bordering on monasticism, to those of unruly and inappetent investigators, who devote a large part of their nutritional needs to spirits. Finally we have arrived at policemen and detectives who are much more demanding and competent in terms of cooking, who happily attribute to nutrition the task of healing small and large emotional wounds.
This is what we will talk about: the connection between food, the investigator’s body and that of the crime. And why in a genre that deals with violence, evil and death, it is almost necessary to cling to something vital and primitive like sitting at the table, the territory that produced it, the tradition and the language that express it. From the Piedmont of Commissioners Bramard and Arcadipane narrated by Davide Longo, to the Sicily of Montalbano created by Camilleri.
The appointment is Thursday, April 24 at 6:30 p.m. at the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal. The meeting will be in Italian with simultaneous translation in French.
Davide Longo was born in Carmagnola in 1971 and lives in Turin. Writer, screenwriter, documentary director, author of theatrical and radio texts, his novels include Un mattino a Irgalem (Marcos y Marcos 2001, Feltrinelli 2019), Il mangiatore di pietre (Marcos y Marcos 2004, Feltrinelli 2016), L’uomo verticale (Fandango 2010, Einaudi 2022). The series starring Vincenzo Arcadipane and Corso Bramard, which has achieved great success with audiences and critics, includes so far Il caso Bramard (Feltrinelli 2014, Einaudi 2021), Le bestie giovani (Feltrinelli 2018, Einaudi 2021), Una rabbia semplice (Einaudi 2021), La vita paga il sabato (Einaudi 2022) e Requiem di provincia (Einaudi 2023). In 2007 he edited the anthology for Einaudi Racconti di montagna while all his children’s books, including La vita a un tratto e La montagna pirata are published by Corraini Edizioni. In 2018 he wrote the screenplay for the film Il mangiatore di pietre played by Luigi Lo Cascio. He has written for Corriere della Sera, Repubblica, il Manifesto, Avvenire and La Stampa. He teaches writing at Scuola Holden in Turin and his books have been translated in many countries.
