From this book the movie by Daniele Luchetti Momenti di trascurabile felicità, scripted by Francesco Piccolo.
“There is an attention to minute metabolism, everyday detail, and idle habits that make the reader’s complicity inevitable… Piccolo’s comic indulgence is just as precise as his comic ruthlessness.”
la Repubblica
“Tasty and refreshing reading… Piccolo puts some sarcastic pepper and auto-ironic brightness seducing the reader with a subversive frankness.”
La Vanguardia
A witty phenomenology of joyful living, an international bestseller.
Is it possible to be happy about other people unhappiness? What does Francesco Piccolo mean when he describes with his wonderful way of writing (part literature, part humor, part self-analysis) his personal Moments of Negligible Happiness? Moments that nest anywhere, ready to pounce, moments that open your eyes to a section of life not previously acknowledged. A merciless catalogue of the usually unmentionable pleasures, tics and fragilities that are familiar to all of us, sooner or later.
Francesco Piccolo
Francesco Piccolo is a writer and screenwriter. His latest books are: Il desiderio di essere come tutti (Strega Prize 2014), L’animale che mi porto dentro (2018), the Negligible Moments trilogy and La bella confusione (2023). He has signed screenplays for Nanni Moretti, Silvio Soldini, Paolo Virzì, Francesca Archibugi, Daniele Luchetti, and Marco Bellocchio, among others. He scripted the TV series My Brilliant Friend. He collaborates with la Repubblica.
- La bella confusione (A Lovely Confusion)
- Momenti trascurabili Vol. 3 (Negligible Moments Vol. 3)
- L’animale che mi porto dentro (The Animal I Carry Within Me)
- Momenti di trascurabile infelicità (Moments of Negligible Unhappiness)
- Il desiderio di essere come tutti (Wanna Be Like Everyone)
- Momenti di trascurabile felicità (Moments of Negligible Happiness)
Link
Moments of Negligible Happiness as a Twitter phenomenon: a special section on Einaudi website
Press
A selected Italian press review (PDF)
A selected Spanish press review (PDF)
Video
Francesco Piccolo guest at Che tempo che fa and Parla con me, Rai 3
“There is an attention to minute metabolism, everyday detail, and idle habits that make the reader’s complicity inevitable… Piccolo’s comic indulgence is just as precise as his comic ruthlessness.”
la Repubblica
“Full of treacherous splinters, unexpected yet terribly familiar.”
Il Sole 24 Ore
“Piccolo has published delightful books. Now he has surpassed himself.”
El Ideal Gallego
“A book of wicked truths, and unjustified yet authentic pleasures. Small and private, but also universal.”
Vanity Fair
“Tasty and refreshing reading… Piccolo puts some sarcastic pepper and auto-ironic brightness seducing the reader with a subversive frankness.”
La Vanguardia
Foreign rights sold in
Albania: Fjala
Bulgaria: Ciela
Egypt: Beba Editions
France: Denoël
Germany: Insel
The Netherlands: Wereldbibliotheek
Russia: Corpus
Spain: Anagrama, Univers
Italian and international editions
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- Italy (Einaudi) – Momenti di trascurabile felicità
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- Italy (Einaudi, paperback edition) – Momenti di trascurabile felicità
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- Albania (Fjala) – Çaste lumturie dhe palumturie të papërfillshme
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- Bulgaria (Ciela) – Мигове на малки радости
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Egypt (Beba Editions) –
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- France (Denoël) – Petits moments de bonheur volés
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- France (Points – paperback edition) – Petits moments de bonheur volés
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- Germany (Insel) – Von Glücksmomenten
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- The Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek) – Momenten van onverwacht geluk
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- Russia (Corpus) – Минуты будничного счастья
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- Russia (Corpus) – Минуты будничного счастья
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Spain (Anagrama) –
Momentos de inadvertida felicidad
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Spain – Catalan (Univers) –
Moments d’inadvertida felicitat
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Spain (bookclub edition) –
Momentos de inadvertida felicidad + Momentos de inadvertida infelicidad
Foreign publishers of Francesco Piccolo works
Albania: Fjala
Bulgaria: Ciela
Croatia: Hena
Egypt: Beba Editions
France: Denoël
Germany: Insel
The Netherlands: Wereldbibliotheek
Russia: Corpus
Serbia: Laguna
Spain: Anagrama
Spain (Catalan): Univers