The passionate Madame Bovary is the fil rouge of the eighth edition of the PiazzaParola literary review which is staged at the Lac in Lugano, a meeting place for all culture enthusiasts, from this evening until 28 October.
Gustave Flaubert's protagonist will be at the center of the entire exhibition which opens with the inaugural event entitled “Madame Bovary in literature, painting and music”, presenting the figure of the romantic heroine par excellence within an edition organized by the Dante Alighieri Society of Italian Switzerland and Lac Lugano Arte e Cultura which speaks to writers, editors, journalists, essayists, poets and historians, women who read, yes inform, write and who themselves embody the essence of the book's Emma.
“As for Emma, she avoided wondering if she loved him. She was convinced that love should come suddenly, accompanied by lights and noises, like a celestial hurricane that swoops down on life, upsets it, overwhelming her will like dry leaves, and drags every feeling into her abyss. He did not know that drop by drop rain creates ponds on the terraces of houses when the gutters are clogged, and he would have continued to believe himself safe if he hadn't suddenly discovered a flaw in his defences", wrote Gustave Flaubert in his most famous novel.
PiazzaParola opens with an evening dedicated to the role of women in the XNUMXth century, recounting their desires and passions in a century in which novels were considered scandalous and dangerous for women.
During the first evening, Alberto Mario Banti, Daria Galateria and the writer Marta Morazzoni will speak.
All days of the festival are developed in sub-themes that explore different aspects of being a woman and a reader and a man of letters.
During the second evening, scheduled for Thursday 25 October, the importance of female psychology and interiority will be discussed in events Reading changes your life, with the participation of Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti and the meeting with Silvia Vegetti Finzi; while Friday 26 is dedicated to the theme Writing changes your life, which will project the debate on writing and will propose meetings with Dacia Maraini and Sandra Petrignani.
Saturday 27 begins the focus Switzerland, Suisse, Switzerland, on contemporary Swiss literature: the writer-peasant Noëmi Lerch, winner of the Schiller Terra-Nova 2016 prize, and in the afternoon another award-winning author, Noëlle Revaz; the second part of the Forum on Swiss literature will be Sunday afternoon with Simone Müller, Yvonne Pesenti Salazar, Eveline Hasler, Corinna Jäger-Trees, Leta Semadeni and Natascha Fioretti.
The final day of the festival will deal with two strands of literature, mystery and poetry, narrating their female protagonists: the morning will be enlivened by the debate between crime writers Alessia Gazzola and Rosa Teruzzi and their colleague Andrea Fazioli; as far as poetry is concerned, the second part of the day is dedicated to Patrizia Valduga and the book Charles Door. Poems (Einaudi), which the poet translated into Italian.
