“Bozze non corrette has already been acquired in the United States, France, Spain, and Brazil, and negotiations are underway with other countries. It is quite a surprising result that a book which plays so extensively with the Italian language has been purchased to be published
abroad, therefore in translation.”
——Il Post

★Rights sold in English, Spanish, French, Brazil and Arabic.
★A meta-literary brainteaser crafted by Italy’s best-known puzzle expert, Stefano Bartezzaghi, a professor of semiotics and a former student of Umberto Eco.
★More than 40˙000 copies sold in Italy in 3 months.
★A mysterious writer has died by suicide under suspicious circumstances. A proofreader knows the truth. In this book, he has hidden 1,000 mistakes to reveal it. Only those who find them will be able to piece together the secret message and solve the mystery.

Uncorrected Proofs is a game-book in which every page contains ten errors, for a total of one thousand mistakes (spelling errors, inconsistencies, typos, fact checking, etc.). Half of the pages explores the world of the Proofreader and his investigation into the death of his close friend, the great writer Niccolò Errante. The other half features book excerpts from various styles and genres (historical, instructional, experimental novels, science fiction, and the great classics of Italian literature, from Manzoni to Boccaccio, from Pirandello to Svevo, including Leopardi) on which the Proofreader is working for a fictional major publisher. Every mistake is a tile in an intricate puzzle to piece together a secret message that will help readers solve the mystery of Errante’s death: who is the culprit?

STEFANO BARTEZZAGHI essayist, journalist and puzzle expert, collaborates with la Repubblica and L’Espresso, with columns on word games and linguistic digressions. He teaches “Theories of Creativity” at the IULM University in Milan. His recent books include: Non ne ho la più squallida idea (2006); L’orizzonte verticale (2007); Il libro dei giochi per le vacanze (2009); Scrittori giocatori (2010); Dando buca a Godot (Einaudi, 2012). He edited a new edition of Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau (translated by Umberto Eco) and the second Italian edition of the Harry Potter saga (2010).

PIER MAURO TAMBURINI is a screenwriter, director, and writer. He is one of the leading experts on gamebooks in Italy. In 2010, he co founded La Buoncostume, an authors’ collective with which he has written several programs and TV series, and with which he published with Mondadori the novels Millennials. Il mondo nuovo (2018) and Furioso. L’ultimo canto (2022).