Ieri ho letto un numero del New Yorker del mese scorso in cui era raccontata la presentazione newyorkese di un volume pubblicitario dedicato allo “stile italiano”. Ne consiglio la lettura (il testo completo è qui) a chi volesse capire:
a) che immagine da pirla abbiano gli italiani presso alcuni ambienti americani;
b) quanto quegli ambienti siano affascinati da questa stessa immagine da pirla

A jewelry designer named Philip Crangi said the Italian life style was “a little beachy, with a blazer.” A man who asked to be referred to as “an unidentified artist-not a flying object” said the key to the Italian life style was “to live in the moment.” He was with a blond architect from Austria named Bettina Zerza, who talked about Italian houses with “beautiful interiors.” She said, “The book doesn’t show the beautiful parties they have in the interiors,” adding, “They’re not scared. They open up their houses and have twenty people over!”