Tuesday 9 June, 6.30pm
The Italian Library #29
Vorrei trascorrere una domenica da uomo. Alba de Céspedes oggi.
In Italian
Ornella Tarantola in conversation with Olga Campofreda about Alba de Céspedes: elegant, ironic, and supremely intelligent, in her long and intense journalistic career Alba de Céspedes “made her voice heard” on women with the same clarity of vision with which she portrayed her protagonists in fiction. She did so by depicting figures such as Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel, Sibilla Aleramo, and Marilyn Monroe; by advocating for women’s economic independence; by discussing their entry into the judiciary; by responding to Natalia Ginzburg about the “well” of depression into which women sometimes fall; and by reflecting on their relationship with literature and politics.
With a selection of journalistic writings, completed by a 1990 interview, Olga Campofreda allows us to hear once again an extraordinary voice, one that never stops reminding us that emancipation is “an inheritance we must defend for all the citizens who will come after us.
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Olga Campofreda is a writer, researcher, and curator of literary events. She collaborates with various publications, focusing on literature, pop culture, and the media representation of youth. Among her most recent works are the novel Ragazze perbene (NN Editore, 2023) and the essay Camerette. Un racconto sulla giovinezza dalle pareti delle nostre stanze ai social media (Quanti Einaudi, 2023). In 2026 she curated for Mondadori an anthology of journalistic writings, completed by a 1990 interview with Alba De Céspedes, Vorrei trascorrere una domenica da uomo. She lives in London.