Chiara Tagliaferri presents the book 'Morgana. Il corpo della Madre'

Chiara Tagliaferri, with Heesun Moon, will present the book Morgana. Il corpo della Madre on Saturday, January 25th, at 6.00 pm at Manifattura Tabacchi.

This third volume concludes the extraordinary literary and political project launched by Michela Murgia and Chiara Tagliaferri in 2019 through a highly successful podcast that later became the first book in the celebrated series: Morgana. Storie di ragazze che tua madre non approverebbe (Morgana. Stories of Girls Your Mother Wouldn’t Approve Of).

Since then, those “out-of-the-box girls,” whose last concern is pleasing others, have multiplied exponentially—not only through the luminous tales of the authors but also within the vast audience of listeners and readers. This phenomenon has created a collective experience, an intrepid army of Morgane, made up of women, men, people in transition, and queer individuals who have seen themselves reflected in these stories of freedom and courage.

The body as a malleable element of identity and motherhood in its most intricate forms are the political subjects that the two writers have chosen to focus on in this final chapter. As Chiara Tagliaferri writes in the book’s preface:
“You’ll find Morgane who are terrorists, young girls from Nazareth changing the world, mothers who never stop marching around the obelisk at Plaza de Mayo, bodiless writers trapped in glass bells, pioneers of feminism and plastic surgery… Their stories reveal a liberating world filled with alternative forms of fertility, all different, where no one is a better or worse mother than another.”

Mary of Nazareth, the quintessential non-mother; Elena Ferrante, who gained global fame without ever showing her physical presence; David Bowie, who delighted in endlessly reinventing himself; the “double mothers” of Plaza de Mayo; Sylvia Plath; Goliarda Sapienza; and many others. And finally, Michela Murgia herself: mother, friend, sister, intellectual, and a woman of many lives, portrayed through the voices of her queer family and closest friends. These Morgane burn brighter than ever, and the light they emit will continue to illuminate all the deviations in our paths.