Anton Emilio Krogh: “In ‘The shape of the heart’ as a man I tell about female homosexuality”

A true story “of turbulent love between a Franciscan novice and an army soldier. An all-female story, telling it as a man was very nice for me”. Anton Emilio Krogh, Neapolitan lawyer and writer of his third novel, ‘The shape of the heart’, published by Mursia and co-authored with Senator Monica Cirinnà, a signatory of the law on civil unions, says this to Adnkronos. The book will be presented in Rome next Wednesday at 6 pm, at the Taverna Testaccio, by Goffredo Bettini and Andrea Carugati, in the presence of the two authors. “A story – says Krogh – that was experienced firsthand by Monica Cirinnà who shared it with me and we decided to tell it, especially after the release of the two girls who, however, for privacy reasons, remained anonymous and in the novel have two fictional names: Ada and Eve “. It is a “partisan story – continues the author – which tells the encounter between two women who had thought of finding shelter from certain things behind a dress, but who then found the strength to make the heart prevail over everything. tortuous and difficult path, facilitated, or rather, lightened by the help of a person who is Monica herself, in the book told as an expert civil rights lawyer. We also talk about the final moments of the approval of the law on civil unions, but the knot of the novel remain the two protagonists who, which struck us very much, met by chance in Lourdes where each of the two had gone for different reasons. In the novel there is also Naples, that Naples that I like to tell. And how it happens for my previous two books (‘There’s no one like me’ and ‘You can’t stop the summer’, both published with Mursia, ed) also in this one I tackle the theme of homosexuality, this time in the feminine, always seen as a taboo perhaps and more than the male one. A taboo probably linked to the backwardness of a society that still struggles to see true equality between men and women “. According to Krogh, who is also a man of the law,” like those on divorce or abortion, the Cirinnà Law is a pillar of our society but must be fed day by day by the things that happen. Unfortunately, at a time when homophobia and discrimination are increasing, despite the law, one has the feeling of having gone back. The whole of Italy must be very grateful to Monica who brought this law into effect. ” , Krogh has no doubts: “The company is moving forward despite some politicians wanting to block it back. It is necessary to overcome the palace games, but I think it is a path already marked – says the writer and lawyer – When the detractors say that violence is already punished by the penal code and there is no need to add more, I say that yes, there is punishment , but inculcating in the community the idea that someone cannot be attacked for their feelings or disabilities is fundamental, because the laws serve to change the mentality of future generations. I don’t look so much at punishment – he concludes – but at the educational function of the law “.