Date: 28 MAY 2025 from 19:00 to 20:30
Event location: Aula VI, Via Zamboni, 38
Type: Meetings with the writers
The publication of Certe sere Pablo by Gabriele Pedullà (Einaudi, 2024) has sparked a lively critical debate on literature and political commitment, and on how many Italian writers of the younger generations have essentially erased the political movements of the 20th century. But what about today?
The book presentation with the author will be an opportunity to discuss these topics in depth—past, present and future.
Gabriele Pedullà (Rome, 1972) teaches Italian Literature at Roma Tre University and writes for "Il Sole 24 Ore". He is the author of several non-fiction works, including the recent On Niccolò Machiavelli: The Bonds of Politics (Columbia University Press, 2023, currently being translated for Einaudi). Together with Sergio Luzzatto, he edited the Atlas of Italian Literature (Atlante della letteratura italiana, Einaudi 2010–12). Also with Einaudi, he has published the short story collections Lo spagnolo senza sforzo (2009, Mondello Opera Prima Prize; Verga Prize; Frontino Prize), Biscotti della fortuna (2020, Super Flaiano Prize), and Certe sere Pablo (2024), as well as the novel Lame (2017, Carlo Levi Prize; Martoglio Prize). His works have been translated, or are being translated, into eight languages.
Riccardo Gasperina Geroni teaches Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Bologna. He writes for Alias and is the author of several works of non-fiction, including Il custode della soglia (Carlo Levi Prize 2018) and Cesare Pavese controcorrente (2020). For Einaudi, he edited Quaderno a cancelli by Carlo Levi and wrote the afterword to Christ Stopped at Eboli. His latest monograph Ricominciare. Classici della letteratura italiana, 1939–1962 is forthcoming, also with Einaudi.