(Apr. 3) “Zeno’s Consciece” – Italo Svevo’s novel published in 1923 – although, during the years, it has been at the center of and accurate analysis, it still continues to seduce. Surely it won over Paolo Bartoloni, professor of Italian Literature at the National University of Ireland. He is, in fact, the author of ” Sapere di scrivere. Svevo e gli ordigni de La coscienza di Zeno “(published by Il Carrubo). The book will be presented on April 15 the Italian Cultural Institute in Dublin. The event, sponsored by the IIC itself with the support of the University of Galway, will as protagonist not only Bartoloni but also Giuseppe Stellardi, associate professor at the University of Oxford and renowned scholar of Svevo. The book – released on March 12 – questions the reasons for the the state of being contemporary of “Zeno’s Conscience”, intended as a novel object and as a reflection about the crisis of modernity, and the “scandal” of human progress facilitated technology, and focused on the exploitation of others and the earth. (red)
