Narrating modernity. Italian writers facing a changing world
As part of a joint seminar project between the Representative Office of St Petersburg University in Italy and the University for Foreigners in Siena, Professor Anna Baldini will deliver an online lecture.
During the lecture, Professor Baldini will talk about how fiction reflects the second half of the 20th century, one of the periods of accelerated modernisation in Italy. The lecture will also focus on the books Libera nos a malo by Luigi Meneghello (1963) (translated in English as Deliver Us) and La Chiave a Stella (1978) by Primo Levi (published in the USA under the title of The Monkey’s Wrench).
Lecturer
Anna Baldini teaches the history of the publishing trade and Italian literature at the University for Foreigners in Siena. She is a member of the Ltit (Literature Translated in Italy) research group, and co-director of the journal Allegoria. Her research interests are Contemporary Italian Literature (with a particular regard to Italian Resistance literature), Sociology of Literature (with a particular regard to Pierre Bourdieu’s theories), Holocaust Studies (with a particular regard to Primo Levi’s work). She is the author of monographs Il comunista. Una storia letteraria dalla Resistenza agli anni Settanta (2008) and A regola d’arte. Storia e geografia del campo letterario italiano (1902-1936) (2023).