2014 Programme
Event #21
Christian Raimo, Michele Serra
All Unhappy Families Are Like One Another
Every family is dysfunctional in its own way. Our late modernity has got us accustomed to a world of relationships between couples, parents and their children, adults and children, in which the total absence of models has paved the way for dramatic or tragicomic bewilderment. In spite of the fact that they belong to two different generations, in terms of political and cultural background, habit and spirit of the times, private affairs, Michele Serra and Christian Raimo share the condition of living at the height of an age of anxiety – a time in which, performance being exalted, no one feels adequate about being what they would like to be. But neither Serra nor Raimo want to study all this from a sociological point of view: they believe that literature can recount these transformations by way of special characters who can ?take us by surprise” to make us see things in a unique light.
https://www.festivaldellamente.it/it/live-streaming-alessandro-barbero/was born in Rome in 1954 and lives between Milan and the Apennines of Piacenza, where he and his wife Giovanna Zucconi run a farm. He has always written for a living. He founded and directed the satirical weekly Cuore. He contributes to la Repubblica, l’Espresso and Vanity Fair. He writes for the theatre and has written for television. He has published (in Feltrinelli) collections of articles, stories, and novels. His most recent books are: Cerimonie (2014) and Gli sdraiati (2013), translated across Europe.
Event #20
Paolo Cornaglia Ferraris, Marcello Massimini
The Secret of the Consciousness and its Measurement
