Thursday, 29 June 2023 at 4:50 pm – Trinity Long Room Hub
In the context of the international conference “Italo Calvino and World Culture: A Hundred-Year Legacy”, you are warmly invited to attend An Impossible Interview with Italo Calvino, curated by Silvio Perrella. This is an imaginary interview adapted from the book Insperati incontri (Gaffi 2017), in which Perrella evokes key figures from Italian literature through real and imaginary dialogues, stories, and portraits. This time, the interview is led by Ludmilla, one of the most enigmatic female characters depicted by Calvino in the novel If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller (1979)
The event will be in Italian with English translation.
Free admission upon registration here.
Silvio Perrella
Silvio Perrella was born in Palermo and lives between Naples and Rome. He has published several books that don’t fit neatly into traditional categories of genre. From Calvino (1999) to Io ho paura (2018), from Giùnapoli (2006), and Doppio scatto (2015) to Insperati incontri (2017), his written work mixes literary criticism, reportage, autobiography, accounts of feelings, fables, and enquiries about cities and their shape.
His radio programmes are available on RaiRadioTre and Rete Due of the Italian Swiss Radio. These include mainly descriptions of places and recited poems.
In both his written and oral work, Perrella uses a particular tone that allows readers and listeners to create their own imaginative space. Hence the predilection for short texts offering glimpses and partial views.
Perrella edited the collected works of Raffaele La Capria, published in the series “I Meridiani”, and co-authored with him Di terra e mare (2018). He drew the portrait of Goffredo Parise in Fino a Salgareda (2015) and gave shape to some of Parise’s posthumous books such as Quando la fantasia ballava il boogie (2005), Lontano (2009), Poesie (1998) and the new edition of L’odore del sangue (2004).
Reservation no longer available