June 30, 2026
by Eugenio Murrali David Grossman’s writing is born in History, it grows within it, it rebels against it, it accompanies it. If you meet him up close, the Israeli author is a man of ascetic thinness, with a sad, sweet and fiery look. The release of the two volumes of Meridiani Mondadori took him to Italy, to Turin, to the International Book Fair, where we met him together with other journalists. Un Meridiano is first and foremost an artistic achievement, a retrospective on a rich, complex and painful writing journey. But Grossman’s literature is also a political act that asks questions about issues such as justice, truth, memory and the long-standing, painful implications of the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians. Without making predictions about the future, he reiterates, patiently: «I have …
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