Presentation of the new novel Anita by Alain Elkann
The author will be in conversation with Sandro Veronesi
Anita left, thus ending a love-story that seemed would have lasted forever. Milan is unprepared, sad, entangled by regrets and nostalgia which induce him to imagine, as a consolation, how that love would have been if they had met in their youth instead of their sixties. This is a novel enriched by glimpses of irony, overwhelmed by the tenderness of memories. The ending of a great love story and the ending of the existence on earth intertwine with a serenity that is not detachment but full, complicated, and contradictory assumption of the fragilities of life and emotions.
Event in Italian with simultaneous translation in English
Alain Elkann has written several books of short stories, nonfiction and interviews with, among others, Chief Rabbi of Rome Elio Toaff, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, the Italian writer Alberto Moravia, and the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. He has been a counselor to the Italian Cultural Ministry, and the Chairman of the Egyptian Museum in Turin. Awarded the Legion d’Honneur by the French Republic, Elkann presently serves as President of the Foundation for Italian Art and Culture in New York and is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Sandro Veronesi, born in Florence, Tuscany in 1959, is a novelist, essayist, and journalist. He published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of poetry (Il resto del cielo, 1984) that has remained his only venture into verse writing. Since then, he has written several novels (including Caos Calmo, Strega Prize 2005, later a film with Nanni Moretti), three books of essays, one theatrical piece, numerous introductions to novels and collections of essays, interviews, screenplay, and television programmes.