“The war, history, the memory to come”, at the center of the first meetings organized by the “Resistance and Constitution Committee of the Piedmont Region”
Thursday 9th and Friday 10th May
Two events dedicated to the theme of “War” and of “Memory” (average partnerships “The print”). And four names of absolute importance on a historical and cultural level: they will be among the figures of greatest interest, leading the way in the XXVI edition of the “Turin International Book Fair” which will make the city the “Reading Capital” from 9 to 13 May. Two events, it was said. Held in collaboration with “Polo del ‘900”, “Anpi”, “Comunité Ebraica”, “Istoreto” and “Aiace”.
The first (Thursday 9 May, 2.30 pmPavilion 2, at the “Arena Piemonte) is a monologue on “War” through literature and cinema, starring Mattia Feltrieditor of the newspaper online“HuffPost” and editorialist of “The print” where today he writes the front page column “Good morning”; The second one (Friday 10 May, 3.30pmsame place) will discuss the topic of the broadcast of “Memoria” with the director and screenwriter Francesca Archibugithe writer Lia Levi and the journalist Agnese Pini.
“War, time to live, time to die”: the plot on which Feltri’s speech will move: a monologue on the war “through literature and cinema”. From Stanley Kubrick to Remarquepassing through HomerThe Gospel and the “Chanson de geste”the first poetic genre (based on events of the Carolingian period) “well defined and structured expressed in the language of oil”. A cascade of historical material on which to reflect, to then deal with the tragic reality of today.
On “The memory to come” instead, the interventions by Francesca Archibugi, Lia Levi and Agnese Pini will focus. Moderating the discussion was the journalist from “The print”, Fulvia Caprara: “A reflection – explain the organizers – with many voices on how to transmit ‘Memory’ and interest the younger generations in ‘History'”.
Not an easy task entrusted to Archibugi, Levi and Pini. Certainly of enormous interest for the various reflective and proactive angles from which the “magnificent” three will be able to shoot arrows that will undoubtedly reach straight to the hearts of the general public and especially the younger ones.
With five “Donatello’s David” and three “Silver Ribbons”, Francesca Archibugi (Roman, born in 1960) is considered one of the main Italian directors, “capable of mixing comedy and drama and penetrating human emotions and frailties, analyzing Italy’s vices and weaknesses”. In 2015 he wrote the screenplay for the film together with the director Paolo Virzì “Crazy Joy”. In 2022 she directs the film “The hummingbird” from the book by Sandro Veronesi. In 2016 he directed the television series “Family novel”with Giancarlo Giannini and Vittoria Puccini, and more recently “History”based on the novel of the same name by Elsa Morante, with Jasmine Trinca and Valerio Mastandrea.
Lia Leviborn in Pisa (1931) to a Piedmontese family of Jewish origin, experienced racial persecution as a child, an experience she wanted to bear witness to in her first novel, “Just a little girl” (1994), winner of the “Elsa Morante Award” first work: after 8 September 1943 he managed to save himself from deportations by hiding for ten months with his sisters Gabriella and Vera, and his mother Leontina in a Roman college of nuns. Since then he has continued to write novels for both adults and children, winning various awards. The last one is “Young Witch” with “This evening is already tomorrow” (2018). For thirty years you founded and directed the monthly magazine “Shalom”.
Agnese Pini (1985), born in Carrara, has been directing since August 2019 “The nation”, the first woman in the newspaper’s 160-year history. From 1 July 2022 you were also appointed Managing Director of “QN National Newspaper”, “Il Resto del Carlino” And “The day”. In 2023 she published “An Autumn in August” (“Chiarelettere”): “the Nazi-fascist massacre that struck my family; a love story while war becomes scary again”. A story that “I thought it was for a long time – continues Pini – a now closed chapter in the history of Italy and my personal history. Thanks also to the work I do, I understood that that chapter was far from closed, that the most unmentionable instincts of what we can still be are hidden there… This is a book about the last and it is to them that it is dedicated, because on them the strong and imperfect framework of our entire present, therefore also of mine, was built”.
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In the photos: Mattia Feltri, Francesca Archibugi, Lia Levi and Agnese Pini
Cover image C. Benedetto
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