Conference and exhibition in the University Library of Genoa
Tuesday 18 January, at 5 pm, El Canto Major by Alejandra Pizarnik (1936 –1972), poet and translator. Conference by Agostino Petrillo and Alessandro Prusso dedicated to one of the most intense and original voices of the Argentine twentieth century, controversial, bisexual, ‘cursed’, who committed suicide at the age of 36 in Buenos Aires. From a Russian-Polish Jewish family, he lived in Paris from 1960 to 1964, where he worked for the magazine “Cuadernos” and collaborated with numerous publishing houses. friend of personalities such as Olga Orozco, Julio Cortázar, Octavio Paz and the poet Cristina Campo, whom Alejandra dedicates to verse and with whom she becomes an intense exchange of letters to the end. This is how Petrillo imagines it: “Paris, the city ‘cut to its size’ enveloped it, hid it, protected it, allowing it to cultivate its ghosts … Poetry made up of unspoken things, listening to their own silences”. As long as literature and writing support it, it will be able to live for which I write, it is because someone saves me myself ”(Diary, 30.07.1962).
For example, he identifies himself with Antonin Artaud: “Artaud is me. His struggle with silence, with the feeling of absolute abyss, of emptiness, with his alienated body, how can we not associate it with my struggle? ” (25.12.1959).
But back home, the language separates from Alejandra as if it had become an enemy of life. “Par littérature j’ai perdu ma vie”, he wrote to a friend paraphrasing Rimbaud; the word becomes garbage (from letter to litter).
Agostino Petrillo (avellino, 1957), architect and philosopher, is associate professor at the Milan Polytechnic, PhD in Sociology. Latest publication: Peripherein: thinking about the periphery differently (Franco Angeli 2013 and 2016).
Alessandro Prusso (Genoa) has been dealing for years with Hispano-American literature and in particular with Alejandra Pizarnik.
Interventions via the web: Eduardo Margaretto (Valencia, 1963) is a writer, translator and screenwriter of Italian origin; Cristina Piña, poet and literary critic; Maria Negroni, Argentine poet, writer and translator.
We remind you that to participate it will be necessary to show the Super green pass and wear the FFP2 mask.
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The EXHIBITIONS in BUGE continue.
Until January 31, 2022, in the second Exhibition Hall on the ground floor, the photographic exhibition Reading will be open so as not to lose the thread… and the memory. You will have the book and not the sword in your hand: a path of ‘encouragement to read’, with photographs by Cosimo Damiano Motta, Elisabetta and Pierangelo Vacchetta. It is said that over 60% of the population does not even read a book a year and that another large part only browses the newspaper at the bar. The authors have set themselves the goal of discussion about it and, why not, the desire to read: a very urgent topic for a large public library such as the University.
Until 10 FEBRUARY 2022, About Dante. Alighieri in paper, audio and video
the bibliographic exhibition that illustrates the interest and fortune of Dante Alighieri’s work over the centuries, through manuscripts and wonderful printed books from the 15th, 16th and 18th centuries (on the 3rd floor of the Library), up to the most modern editions, exposed on the ground floor. The exhibition itinerary outlines the impact and dissemination of Dante’s work within the Italian cultural context, and in particular the influence on some personalities, such as Edoardo Sanguineti, whose library collection is preserved – the ‘Magazzino Sanguineti’ – in the University Library of Genoa.
More detailed programs and other materials downloadable from the website of the
University Library Genova CS by the Cultural Events Office BUGe (Alberto Nocerino)
For information and reservations: tel. 010 2546 431 – [email protected]