May 20, 2022

Issue #60: Hypercritic Microfestival | Exploring the Paths of Wild Hearts 🐅

Dear Hypercritics,

This week represents a new milestone for us.

We have begun our coverage of the 34th Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino, Italy, through Monday.

From Thursday through Sunday, also in Turin, you can finally meet us in the first Hypercritic Microfestival, in the courtyard of the Borgopo’ bookstore at 10 Via Ornato, at 8:30 pm.

Over four evenings, with contributions from guests and Hypercritic editors, we will explore the Paths of Wild Hearts, the theme of this year’s Salone del Libro.

Just a taste of these themes we also offer in this week’s newsletter.

Beyond limits

➡️ Play The Alpinist | Marc-André Leclerc pushes the limits of Free Solo

Marc-André Leclerc died at 26, after completing the first winter solo ascents of Torre Egger in Patagonia and the Emperor Face of Mt. Robson.

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➡️ Read Infinite Jest • David Foster Wallace's maximalist novel

David Foster Wallace’s masterpiece, Infinite Jest, tries to describe the world in which we live by creating a new narrative universe.

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➡️ Play Project Possible 14/7 | All the 8,000-meter mountain peaks in seven months

Since the beginning of Project Possible 14/7, it was always a reckless challenge to human limits: climbing all 14 mountain peaks over 8,000 metres high in a record time of seven months.

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Frenzy and fury

➡️ Read The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

The Forty-Nine Stories embody most of Hemingway’s prominent themes. Above all, a sense of death dripping into the silences and cracks of human life.

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➡️ Watch Wild at Heart | Make love against the world

Wild at Heart is one of David Lynch's most lively works but also one of the hardest to grasp. Still, it provides a cinematic journey for those who comply.

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➡️ Read As I Lay Dying - Faulkner's revolutionary literary style

Written by the American author William Faulkner, the novel As I Lay Dying marked Literature’s history with its revolutionary literary style.

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Us VS. the world

➡️ Watch Mustang | A battle for women's freedom

Mustang is a 2015 movie, written and directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven, that represents a hymn to the freedom of five Turkish sisters.

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➡️ Read Attack on Titan is a manga about power and freedom

Mixing a coming of age story with mature contents, the worldwide praised manga Attack on Titan tells a story of survival, fear and freedom.

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Disruptive souls

➡️ Experience The Feast in the House of Levi | The power of being disruptive

The Renaissance artist Paolo Veronese painted the large and crowded The Feast in the House of Levi, depicting the episode of The Last Supper.

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➡️ Read Wuthering Heights | When love becomes an obsession

Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Brontë in 1847, talks about the uncontrolled passion between Catherine and Heathcliff.

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If you have enjoyed these cultural itineraries, you can still attend three live events! N.B. All the events will only be in Italian.

Hypercritic Microfestival - opening night

Friday, May 20, 8:30 pm

FRENZY AND FURY

From The Wild Greeks to The Silence of the Innocents

With Daniele De Cicco

Saturday, May 21, 8:30 pm

US VS. THE WORLD

Stories of battles and challenges waged alone, in pair, or in a group, always against a greater adversary

With Alessandro Avataneo and Nicola Maria Fioni

Sunday, May 22, 8:30 pm

DISRUPTIVE SOULS

From classical music to gastronomy, a journey on the wild figures of history

With Clara Gastaldi

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Admission is free, but reservations are required. Reserve your place at: alberta@libreriaborgopo.com

The event is in collaboration with Libreria Borgopo’ and Gambero Rosso Food & Wine Academy.

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