VIDEO | Zerocalcare reveals his relationship with his father: “I was a big disappointment: I didn’t like Rome and cars”

The author presents his latest book at the Turin Book Fair: 'When you die it stays with me', the story of his relationship with his father

TURIN – He is among the most anticipated guests of the Turin book fair. Michele Rech, aka Zerocalcare, presents Saturday 11 May at 3.30 pm, in the Lingotto Auditorium, his last work: When you die, it remains with me. A half autobiographical book, as the director of La Stampa Andrea Malaguti explained (with good reason) this morning, introducing the interview with the author, at the stand of the Turin newspaper at inside Salto24. “It’s about him but also about all of us – says Malaguti -, a book that tells about his life and the trauma one experiences, even if one doesn’t know it, in moment in which there is a divorce between parents. Twice as interesting because this book arrives exactly 50 years after the law on divorce“.

ANYTHING YOU BUY, FOR DAD THE MOTTO IS ALWAYS: “WHEN I DIE IT REMAINS WITH YOU”

‘When you die it stays with me’ is the story of the relationship between Zerocalcare and his father, right from the title. “When he buys any kind of filth, from a collection of cars that have won the 24 Hours of Le Mans over the last 50 years to a succulent plant, the motto is always the same: when I die, it’s yours.” Change the conjugation and the cover is done.

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“I THOUGHT HE ONLY LIKED ROME AND FORMULA ONE. I WAS THE BIG DISAPPOINTMENT”

A book that helped him discover who his father really is. “A person who I thought was very distant from my interests: he was thinking about Rome and Formula One, that’s it. I was the big disappointment, because he had a hard time with sport and I wasn’t interested in cars. Instead, by putting together pieces of the story that I previously didn’t have the tools to decode, I discovered politics and public participation which also ran through my father’s biography, strong>in the years when they were much more present and widespread in people’s lives. So we are talking about a person who is decidedly more complex than the adolescent idea I had of him.”

“IN THE CAR, STILL TODAY, ONLY 883”

The soundtrack of that era was always the same: “For me Max Pezzali is a father of the country, nothing is up to the 883. However, I associate them with car trips with my parents as kids. And in reality even today, if I find myself in the car with my father the playlist is there, Spotify has tagged it

WORSE BAGGIO OR LE VELINE?

It ends with a joke: “Worst Baggio or the Showgirls? Worse Baggio, also because I’m a fan of Zidane’s head kick…”