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ICI Berlin Cesare Pavese: Dialogues with Leucò, The Moon and the Bonfires and The Burning Brand
Readers: Frank Arnold, Gerolamo Fancellu and Christan Steyer
Introduction: Manuele Gragnolati
Concept: Agnese Grieco
When Cesare Pavese, one of the most important Italian writers of the 20th century, committed suicide in 1950 in a Turin hotel room, a copy of his work “Dialogues with Leucò“ was lying on his bedside table. These shorts works, with mythological background, labelled by Pavese as Dialoghetti, “little dialogues”, offer a key to the major themes of Pavese’s work, which are dealt with in “The Moon and the Bonfires” and “The Burning Brand”: themes such as the existential troubles of man, the ambivalent power of love and art, and the bitter lessons of history.
An ICI Berlin event in cooperation with the Italian Culture Institute
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Literaturhaus | Großer Saal Hubert Fichte
Introduction: Wilfried F. Schoeller
Speaker: Astrid Gorvin
Hubert Fichte‘s (1935-1986) work is among the most penetrating testimonies to post-1945 German literature. The “first globalist” – in the words of Wilfried F. Schoeller, who supervised an exhibition of the author’s works in the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg – adapted his experiences on journeys with Leonore Mau to Europe, North and South America and Asia into verse: “Ethnopoetry”.
Entry 6/5/4 €
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