{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Erri De Luca on Aging, Freedom, and Living Intensely - 291 - Alain Elkann Interviews","description":"ACTIVELY AGING. Erri De Luca was born in Naples in 1950. A widely celebrated Italian novelist, essayist, poet, and translator, he has been hailed as \u201cthe writer of the decade\u201d by Italian critics and his work has been translated into over thirty languages. He has written around 80 books \u2013 some say 100 \u2013 and is also a translator of important works. He has studied ancient Hebrew, Swahili, Russian and Yiddish, and has translated several books from the Old Testament, such as Ecclesiastes, Exodus and the Book of Jonah. He has also appeared in films and documentaries, including L\u2019et\u00e0 sperimentale (2024), which Feltrinelli subsequently published as a book. It has also recently been published by Gallimard in Paris, where Erri is known for having won several major literary prizes. \u201cI don\u2019t believe I\u2019ll live for long, but my aim is to live the present day as intensely as possible.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t consider writing a job. For me, it has always been that saved time, and today it is a happy part of my day, but it is a small, happy part of my day.\u201d \u201cWe are in this uncertain time, where there is vagueness and resentment, and in this time I am quite out of the ordinary, out of place, because right now I feel more compassion, more feelings of brotherhood than feelings of hostility.\u201d https:\/\/www.alainelkanninterviews.com\/erri-de-luca\/ ","author_name":"Alain Elkann Interviews","author_url":"https:\/\/www.alainelkanninterviews.com\/","html":"