For the series EMPATHY & LONELINESS IN CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE | Book club, first of six lectures by Shirley Finzi Loew concerning individuals & society in Contemporary Italian Literature.
Premio Strega 1957. On a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea there lives a boy as innocent as a seabird. Arturo’s mother is dead; his father away. Black-clad women care for him, give him the freedom to come and go as he likes. Then the father returns with a new wife, Nunziata, a girl barely older than Arturo. At first hatred and contempt are all the boy feels for his stepmother. In time, Arturo and Nunziata re-create the tragedy and passion that are as old as the history of men and women.
- 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 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, November 6th 2017, at 18:00
Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa
Rehov Meir Rutberg 12 – Haifa
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