“GOING FORWARD WITH OUR HEADS FOREVER TURNED BACK:” RE-READING GIORGIO BASSANI
November 4 at 9am
University of Chicago – Harper Memorial Library – Room 104
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Giorgio Bassani’s birth, the Italian Cultural Institute and the University of Chicago, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, are pleased to present an informative conference organized by Armando Maggi and Maria Anna Mariani on the great Italian writer.
9 am: Breakfast
9.30 am: The Garden of the Finzi-Contini by Giorgio Bassani. An American Tale.
Roberta Antognini, Vassar College
10 am: Bassani versus Pasolini: The Narrator’s Voice in Il romanzo di Ferrara
Armando Maggi, The University of Chicago Coffee Break
11 am: How can a Survivor from the Camp be Fat? On Fleshy Excess in Giorgio Bassani’s
A Plaque on Via Mazzini
Maria Anna Mariani, The University of Chicago
11.30 am: Talking about the Weather During the Holocaust: Giorgio Bassani’s Memory
of a Lost Italian Heimat
Emanuel Rota, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Discussion
12.30: Lunch
Organized by Armando Maggi and Maria Anna Mariani
Sponsored by: Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, The University of Chicago