Save the Story with Pushkin Press
Save the Story is a library of favourite stories from around the world, retold for today ’s children by some of the best contemporary writers. The stories they retell span cultures (from Ancient Greece to nineteenth-century Russia), time and genres (from comedy and romance to mythology and the realist novel), and they have inspired all manner of artists for many generations.
Save the Story is a mission in book form: saving great stories from oblivion by retelling them for a new, younger generation.
The Scuola Holden (Holden School) was born in Turin in 1994. At the School one studies “storytelling”, namely the secret of telling stories in all possible languages: books, cinema, television, theatre, comic strips—with extravagant results.
Save the Story: The Series
Out now:
The Story of Antigone by Ali Smith
The Story of Gulliver by Jonathan Coe
The Story of Don Juan by Alessandro Baricco (trans. Ann Goldstein)
The Story of Captain Nemo by Dave Eggers
The Story of the Betrothed by Umberto Eco
The Story of Gilgamesh by Yiyun Li
The Story of Cyrano de Bergerac by Stefano Benni
The Story of the Nose by Andrea Camilleri
Out later in 2014:
The Story of King Lear by Melania G. Mazzucco
The Story of Crime and Punishment by A. B. Yehoshua
