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Enrico Palandri in conversation with Joseph Farrell

Enrico Palandri is a writer and a Professor of Modern European Literature at University College London and Ca’ Foscari, Venice. He has been awarded prestigious prizes and has been translated in several languages.

He will discuss his fiction and critical essays with Joseph Farrell, Professor Emeritus of Italian in Strathclyde University and author of several acclaimed critical contributions on Italian Literature, from Leonardo Sciascia to Dario Fo.

Palandri will also talk about his forthcoming novel l’inventore di se stesso to be published by Bompiani in September.

After Boccalone (1979), Palandri collaborated with Marco Bellocchio to write the script of the film Diavolo in Corpo (Devil in the Flesh) (1986). He then published six novels: Le pietre e il sale (English: Ages Apart) (1986), La via del ritorno (English: The Way Back) (1997), Le colpevoli ambiguita’ di Herbert Markus (1997), Angela prende il volo (2000), L’altra sera (English: The Other Evening) (2003), I fratelli minori (2010) (English: Venice Regained, 2013). In this cycle, such themes are explored as: “Historical events and social changes of great importance: from the student movement of 1977, to political terrorism, to the fall of the Berlin Wall to the radical changes imposed on European society due to the global phenomenon of migration.” (1) In addition to these novels, Palandri has written various short stories and other pieces published in newspapers and review journals, collected in large part in the volume Allegro fantastico (1993). Palandri has published, furthermore, two ballads in verse: La strega mia amica (English: Little Witch) (1986) and Orfeo a teatro (2007). He has also translated the following authors’ works into Italian: Eudora Welty, Robert McLiam Wilson and the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith. He has published essays on Primo Levi, Pier Vittorio Tondelli as well as on Romanticism and literary theory (Flow, 2011).

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  • Organizzato da: Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh
  • In collaborazione con: Strathclyde University