event
Thursday 13 June 2024 7.00 PM
Le ConversazioniDaniel Mendelsohn
Carlo Scarpa hall
free admission subject to availability
event in English with Italian translation
foto © Matt Mendelsohn
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A journey through literature and film with one of the most celebrated American writers and literary critics.
Daniel Mendelsohn is a classical scholar, critic, translator and professor of literature at Bard College. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books and The New York Times.
He is the author of, among other works, The Lost: The Search for Six of Six Million (Einaudi 2018), winner of the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award, the 2007 Prix Médicis, and numerous other awards; An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic (Einaudi 2018 and 2019), a finalist for the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize; and Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate (Einaudi 2021).
introduction
Irene de Vico Fallani Head of MAXXI Orientation and Development
speakers
Daniel Mendelsohn writer and literary critic
Antonio Monda writer, Le Conversazioni Artistic Director
In collaboration with Giulio Einaudi editore; Le Conversazioni is a project of MAXXI and Dazzle Communication.
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