PROGRAMME >> EVENT #3  

friday aug. 29.time 19.00.sala multimediale canale lunense - euro 4,00
Stefano Bartezzaghi - Creativity of words

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Puzzle composing, word games, semiotics and more, make for a creative language, much more than we know and imagine. Words are fun, communication, literature, art and life, and we should know them, love them and play with them more lightly and more seriously at the same time. An expert on puzzle composition and on language, Bartezzaghi brings us into the realm of fancy words, crazy and merry words, yesterday’s and today’s words, where literature becomes cryptography, mathematics and riddle making, but most of all it becomes the funniest of games.

Stefano Bartezzaghi
is an expert of linguistic games, puzzles and their history. Since 2000 he writes a column on puzzles (Lessico e Nuvole) and one on linguistics (Lapsus) in La Repubblica. His books include: La posta in gioco (Einaudi, 2007); L’orizzonte verticale. Invenzione e storia del cruciverba (Einaudi, 2007); Il libro dei giochi delle vacanze (Mondadori, 2009); L’elmo di don Chisciotte. Contro la mitologia della creatività (Laterza, 2009), part of the series i Libri del Festival della Mente. He has edited the new Italian translation of Raymond Queneau’s Exercices de style (Einaudi, 2007).