Looking towards “Bloomsday 2022” – dedicated to the centenary of Joyce’s masterpiece – the Institute of Culture will host a pre-launch conversation about “The Book About Everything”, a collection of essays dedicated to “Ulysses” edited by Declan Kiberd, Enrico Terrinoni and Catherine Wilsdon.
It will be an opportunity to reflect on the modernity of one of the most important books of worldwide literature, published in Paris in 1922.
The conversation will involve Enrico Terrinoni, Italian translator of “Ulysses”, Edoardo Camurri, writer, journalist and TV popularizer, and Barry McCrea, writer and scholar.
Tuesday 14th June 2022 at 6.30pm at the Italian Institute of Culture
The event, in Italian language, will be followed by a glass of italian wine.
Free event with booking is required
Enrico Terrinoni is Full Professor of English Literature at the University for Foreigners of Perugia. Translator of many of Joyce’s works, he has just published “Su tutti i vivi e i morti. Joyce in Rome” for Feltrinelli Editions, winner of the Francesco De Sanctis Prize, awarded by the De Sanctis Foundation in partnership with the Ministry of Culture and the Presidency of the Republic.
Edoardo Camurri is a writer, essayist, and TV presenter. He writes regularly on “Il Foglio” and has given many lectures on Joyce over the years. A contribution by him on the fifth episode of Ulysses is published in the book “The Book About Everything”. He recently hosted the very successful “Maestri” program for Rai3.
Barry McCrea teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Notre Dame at its campuses in Rome, Dublin and Indiana. His works include the novel “The First Verse” from 2006 and “Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe” from 2015.
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