(April 7, 2017) The Italian Institute of Culture in Munich hosts the presentation of the book by Paolo Rumiz "Il Ciclope". The appointment with the author is on Friday, April 21 at 18:30 at the headquarters of the IIC (Hermann-Schmid-Strasse 8). The debate will be hosted by Andrea Bachstein, journalist of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the most famous German newspapers. The event is organized by the IIC itself and Folio Verlag in collaboration with Forum Italia e.V. Paolo Rumiz, born in Trieste in 1947, is the most successful Italian travel writer. He wrote for the newspaper "La Repubblica" on the wars in Afghanistan and Yugoslavia. He has received numerous awards for his journalistic commitment. He is also the author of numerous essays, novels and stories, that addressed his travels in Italy and in the most remote places in Europe. (Red)

ABOUT / THE BOOK

On a tiny island in the Mediterranean, where the cliffs descend steeply into the sea and the ships can moor only when the sea is calm, stands a solitary lighthouse. As a cyclops peers with his eye the night horizon, the point of a fixed and indispensable guidance to generations of sailors. Rumiz, the tireless traveler, spent three weeks at the lighthouse and just like the light jet of the lighthouse, he explored the sky at night and the horizon during the day. He learned to recognize the arrival of a storm, listening to the wind, to fly with the seagulls, to talk to the donkey. He reflected on the Mediterranean as a cultural space that stretches from Trieste to Lebanon, as a place of exchange, trade and wars that persist to this day, with its own lingua franca. This static journey will become an adventure of the spirit.