Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo' & KIT   

present 

Ennio Flaiano and His Italy: Postcards from a Changing World

 A Book by
Marisa Trubiano

MAY 4 - 6PM

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo'

(24 W 12 Street)

 The event will be in Italian and in English

 
A conversation between

Marisa Trubiano
Mario Fratti

Lucilla Sergiacomo

(Associazione Culturale Ennio Flaiano)  

with a bilingual dramatic reading by

Laura Caparrotti & Marta Mondelli

This book is a valuable resource for scholars and students of postwar Italian culture, cinema and literature, and for those pre- paring or taking courses on cultural studies, travel literature, and postcolonial literature and cinema. Flaiano has been considered a "minor" writer, but this book proves that from the margins comes a voice preoccupied with issues that are anything but minor and that continue to demand resolution.

  Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo'    

present 

 Oltre Lo Specchio:  

Il Realismo Magico di Bontempelli 

A LECTURE IN ITALIAN BY  

MARINELLA MASCIA GALATERIA

(UNIVERSITY LA SAPIENZA, ROMA)

AND

A BILINGUAL DRAMATIC READING BY 

KAIROS ITALY THEATER

MAY 10 - 6PM

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo'

(24 W 12 Street)

Massimo Bontempelli,  (born May 12, 1878, Como, Italy-died July 21, 1960, Rome), Italian poet, novelist, dramatist, and critic whose "magic realism" developed from Futurism.

First a teacher, Bontempelli wrote some traditional poetry, later adopted the antitraditional, anarchic literary doctrine of the Futurists, and ultimately developed his own point of view, which he expressed particularly in his review 900 (founded 1926). European in outlook (one foreign editor was James Joyce), 900 sought a middle ground between the extremes of traditionalism and the literary avant-garde.