For the series EMPATHY & LONELINESS IN CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE | Book club, second of six lectures by Shirley Finzi Loew concerning individuals & society in Contemporary Italian Literature.
Premio Campiello 2010. Formerly beautiful and at one time betrothed to a fallen soldier, Bonaria Urrai has long held covenant with the dead. Midwife to the dying, easing their suffering and sometimes ending it, she is revered and feared in equal measure as the village’s Accabadora. When Bonaria adopts Maria, the unloved fourth child of a widow, she tries to shield the girl from the truth about her role as an angel of mercy. Moved by the pleas of a young man crippled in an accident, she breaks her golden rule of familial consent, and in the recriminations that follow, Maria rejects her and flees Sardinia for Turin. Adrift in the big city, Maria strives as ever to find love and acceptance, but her efforts are overshadowed by the creeping knowledge of a debt unpaid, of a duty and destiny that must one day be hers.
- The six lectures are a series. It is required to subscribe and pay a symbolic fee of 180 NIS. Deadline for enrollment: Friday, November 3, 2017. 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 the 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, December 4th 2017, at 18:00
Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa
Rehov Meir Rutberg 12 – Haifa
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