What words remain when the world falls apart?
Between August 6 and 9, 1945, atomic bombs were dropped that destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Never before had humanity been capable of unleashing such destructive power, to the point of leaving both the victims and those responsible for the military action literally speechless.
What people saw in Hiroshima and Nagasaki went far beyond their ability to describe it.
Only certain ancient depictions of hell - so some survivors reported - could vaguely convey what their eyes had been indelibly marked by that day.
Precisely because the threat of atomic war has not become a distant memory or a warning confined to the past, it seems necessary today to recall what happened during those summer days, retracing the thread of a madness that has never truly ended.
Paolo Miorandi and Michele Bonifati will do so through words and music in Lessico di Hiroshima.
The reading is based on the book of the same name published by Paolo Miorandi in 2015 for Il Margine, written after a slow and deeply engaged exploration of the places affected by the bomb and the memories preserved in places, objects and people.
The author’s voice will intertwine with the sounds of guitar and electronics by Michele Bonifati.
Paolo Miorandi was born and lives in Rovereto. He works as a psychotherapist and devotes part of his time to writing.
Michele Bonifati lives and works in Modena. A guitarist and composer, he graduated from the Conservatory of Parma, teaches electric guitar and performs in various jazz ensembles and groups with which he has recorded albums and taken part in festivals in Italy and abroad.
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