ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA MELBOURNE
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L'Istituto Italiano di Cultura
in association with
(Research in Italian Studies Melbourne - Monash University)
takes pleasure in inviting you to
"Italo Svevo and James Joyce: affinities and differences"
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Elm Tree House
Wednesday 3 September
6.30pm
The complex structure and temporality of Svevo's novel Zeno's Conscience ( La coscienza di Zeno), and the intermingling of story time, narrative time and the time of the actual writing, struck James Joyce as emblems of Svevo's novelty and originality.
What Joyce did not notice as he first read the novel, is that Svevo, not unlike Joyce himself, had constructed a narrative in which knowledge and conscience are the result of a situated cognition, which is the relationship that the subject entertains with the material world.
Together with the cigarette, the object par excellence of Zeno's Conscience, the writing and the body themselves turn into things and objects that are employed to probe and pierce the bourgeois conventions and traditions of a changing and transforming Europe.
Paolo Bartoloni is Professor of Italian Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Previously he taught Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Sydney, where he was founding Director of the program in International and Comparative Literary Studies. Prof Bartoloni is ACIS Honorary Research Associate. His visit to Australia has been sponsored by the University of the Sunshine Coast.
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