Presentation of the book by Lisa Ginzburg.
The author will be in conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri and Marco Mancassola.
Mary Shelley – the daughter of a feminist philosopher and of a political philosopher – starts to write as a game, in 1816, the novel of the new Prometheus: the story of Frankenstein and of the monster rendered guilty by a lack loved, the creature pulled for love from the bowels of cemeteries and to whom the lightning of the scientist Victor Frankenstein gives life. Frankenstein is the first novel in which science becomes mythology and, as mythology does, creates its mortal and immortal beings.
Two hundred years after the first issue of the novel by Shelley, in this book Lisa Ginzburg describes “her” Frankenstein, transforming it into a parents-children behavioural manual (because parents need to have expectations and children need to disappoint them).
Event in Italian with simultaneous translation in English
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Lisa Ginzburg was born in Florence in 1966. Writer and essayist, she graduated at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and she worked on French mystic of seventeenth century. She now lives in Paris, where she has been Director of Culture at Latin Union. She published the novel “Desiderava la bufera” (2002) and the short stories collection “Colpi d’ala” (2006). She curated Natalia Ginzburg’s text “é difficile parlare di sé” (1999) with Cesare Garboli. Her last publication is “Buongiorno mezzanotte, torno a casa” (2018).
Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London and raised in Rhode Island. Her debut collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award and the New Yorker Debut of the Year. Her novel The Namesake was a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and was selected as one of the best books of the year by USA Today and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications. Her first book written in Italian, In Other Words, was published by Bloomsbury in 2016.
Marco Mancassola is an Italian novelist based in London. His book Non saremo confusi per sempre has just been re-published in Italy after inspiring Sicilian Ghost Story, the feature film that opened the International Critics’ Week at Cannes Film Festival in 2017. His articles have appeared in Rolling Stone, Internazionale, International New York Times. He is the founder and artistic director of the Festival of Italian Literature in London (FILL). As a teacher he has started Londra Scrive, a small creative writing school in London.