(28 July 2016) “Keeping a diary is writing of waite: looking for a turning point, a metamorphosis, a miracle in the continuity of a life. You try to pass the time whenever you write it on a date, top of the page. At the beginning of the twentieth century, in Italy, this dialogue with time becomes an artistic practice, a form with its rules and its functions. Writers, poets, essayists explore it, as a side project to their work with words, they transform and contaminate it”: this is how Stefano Colangelo, who teaches contemporary Italian literature and Italian poetry of the twentieth century at the University of Bologna, presents the conference to be held August 4 ( “Models of the diary in Italy. a path in the twentieth century”) at the Tokyo Institute of Italian culture (18.30). “In this speech – he added – I would like to mention a few examples of some Italian models of diary: from Ungaretti to Pavese, from Pasolini to Montale. And show some fundamental issue, a problem of theory that is not only about the craft of the storyteller or poet, but approaches any attempt to write, by each and everyone of us: even the most casual, dispersed and private clipboard note”. (Red)
