Erri De Luca and Gianmaria Testa have known each other and been together for years. The first is a writer, the second a musician. Their love for stories, notes and words brought them together and took shape in a successful theatre show entitled Don Quixote and the Invincibles, scheduled in Italy, France, Canada, Spain and the origin of two DVDs. A tribute to dreamers who don't give up, to those who get involved, who are never passive spectators of what happens. To those followers of lost causes who, precisely because of this, are ultimately invincible.
But even when a show ends, the affinity of spirit remains between men and so it lives on, as in Che storia è questa, in songs and stories, in sharp lyrics and poems that speak of migration, love, wars, imprisonment and of great poets such as Izet Sarajli, born in Yugoslavia in '30.
Gianmaria Testa is a much-loved musician in Italy and abroad. Since his debut with the victory of the Recanati Festival in 1993, six albums have followed: Montgolfières, Extra-Muros, Lampo, Il valzer di un giorno, Altre Latitudini and the latest Da questa parte del mare and the latest Solo-Dal vivo, and thousands of concerts throughout Europe, the United States and Canada. In addition to his solo activity, Testa boasts prestigious collaborations with important jazz musicians, from Gabriele Mirabassi to Enrico Rava, and actors such as Marco Paolini or musicians such as Mario Brunello.
Erri De Luca is one of the most beloved Italian writers. Born in Naples in 1950, before becoming a journalist, writer and translator from Hebrew, he worked as a bricklayer, a worker and a stevedore at Catania airport. His passion for books and writing was born with him. Among his numerous novels, volumes, and collections of short stories are Not Now, Not Here, A Cloud Like a Carpet, Vinegar, Rainbow, Three Horses, Montedidio, The Opposite of One, Exodus/Names, You, My.
His most recent work is The Weight of the Butterfly.
