THE SAVED BOOK

Just one before the fire

A project centred on the performance *Il fuoco era la cura*
produced in collaboration with La Fiera dei Librai and the Bergamo City Library System

Just one before the fire A project centred on the play *Il fuoco era la cura*produced in collaboration with La Fiera dei Librai and the Bergamo City Library System A book written in 1953 and set at the beginning of the 21st century, precisely at that point on the timeline where we find ourselves now. Ray Bradbury’s *Fahrenheit 451* is this and much more besides: it is a provocation, suggesting a possible future that has already happened, set in an unspecified time and place where someone resists to stem humanity’s blind impulse towards destruction. At its heart lies an object…