August 2012, Year IV, n. 8
Andrea Camilleri
There is a lot to do. For us all.
Telos: Author, novelist, scriptwriter, man of letters and culture. Is it still possible today, to talk about political commitment and role of the intellectual?
Andrea Camilleri: In my very personal opinion, social commitment is innate to the function of the intellectual, but it is an entirely different kind of commitment from that of the politician. It would be better for everyone to stick to their own job. I would say that today more than ever commitment to cohesion should be a duty of all citizens, Italians as well as Europeans, no matter what their individual activities are ... more
Editorial
The intellectual? Let him do his job! The Crisis? Hopefully it will lead to a new conception of the social structure globally. The Unification of Italy? Not only an important historical development, but an indisputable progress. Bureaucracy? I laugh at it but, at the same time, I hope for changes. These are the answers of Andrea Camilleri to the questions of Primo Piano Scala c. Maybe, for once, he is relieved not to talk about his most famous character Salvo Montalbano ... more
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