Eleonora Duse and Grazia Deledda. Appointment in Lecce promoted by Duse 100 Committee: the Divine in a dialogue between Annarita Migliettaprofessor at the University of Salento e Pierfranco BruniCommittee coordination member and manager Undulna Duse Project.
To this latest literary work edited by Franca De Santis for Solfanelli publisher, Annarita Miglietta contributed an important essay.
The works will be introduced by Roberto Fatano, president Laica culture and moderated by Vittorio Trullo.
Eleonora Duse, a point of reference also in the tradition of stage costume between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, will be at the center of an evening dedicated to theater and literature between scientificity and promotion. The meeting is set for Monday 3 June at 6.00 pm, in the Sala Marinetti di Lauca in via Cesare Abba, 46.
In line with the hermeneutic spirit from which the Duse Committee emanates, the main themes of the evening will above all concern the role played by Eleonora Duse with literature and in particular with Grazia Deleddawith which Divina had established an important bond, so much so that she became the leading actress in the film “Cenere” based on the novel by the Sardinian writer.
This is the only film that Duse made after reading Deledda’s novel. The drama of her scenes takes her back to her first love Martino Cafiero, met in Matilde Serao’s living room in Naples and with whom he had a son, who died soon after. The drama of Eleonora as a woman and mother emerges particularly from the final scene. A poignant image of the pain of a mother holding her dead son in her arms.
The character embodied by Eleonora Duse crossed by a suffering drama once again reveals the profound sense of pain on the stage of an actress who involved her own existence in her own life.
With this appointment, the Duse Committee organized by the Ministry of Culture (Mic) delves into Eleonora’s relationship with literature by establishing a dialogue debate between literature, theater and cinema.
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Pierfranco Bruni he was born in Calabria and lives between Rome and Puglia. He is a writer, poet, Italianist and literary critic, former archaeologist director at the Ministry of Culture. Expert in Mediterranean literature, he experiences literature as a model of religious anthropology. He has published several texts on Christianity in literature. His analytical style allows him to provide always new visions on literary, philosophical and metaphysical themes. He dedicated himself to the link between literature and fairy tales, literature and the shamanic world, languages and alchemy. He has published over 120 books, including poetry, non-fiction and fiction. He is president of the “Francesco Grisi” Study and Research Center. He holds institutional positions relating to the promotion of culture and literature. This year, by decree of the Ministry of Culture Mic, he was appointed President of the Commission for the awarding of the title of “Italian Book Capital 2024”. Furthermore, recent is theassignment always assigned by Mic Of Component ofJunta of the National Committee for the centenary of Eleonora’s death Duse (21 April 1914 – 21 April 2024) and national scientific director of Undulna Duse 100 Project.
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