For the series EMPATHY & LONELINESS IN CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE | Book club, sith and last of six lectures by Shirley Finzi Loew concerning individuals & society in Contemporary Italian Literature.
Premio Strega & Premio Campiello Opera Prima 2008. A prime number is a lonely thing. It can only be divided by itself or by one, and it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia are both “primes”-misfits haunted by early tragedies. When the two meet as teenagers, they recognize in each other a kindred, damaged spirit. Years later, a chance encounter reunites them and forces a lifetime of concealed emotion to the surface. But can two prime numbers ever find a way to be together? A brilliantly conceived and elegantly written debut novel, The Solitude of Prime Numbers is a stunning meditation on loneliness, love, and what it means to be human.
- The six lectures are a series. It is required to subscribe and pay a symbolic fee of 40 NIS/lecture. For further information, please contact the Italian Cultural Institute of Haifa at 04-8536091.
- Participants are invited to read the novel in Hebrew or in the original language before each lecture.
Shirley Finzi Loew graduated in Computer Engineering (Technion). After making a career in the computer industry, she moved to literature. She graduated in comparative literature (University of Haifa) with a thesis on Elsa Morante’s novels and has been working as translator from Italian into Hebrew since then.
Event held in Hebrew.
Refreshments from 17:45.
Monday, April 9th 2018, at 19:00
Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa
Rehov Meir Rutberg 12 – Haifa
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