De Dante à Levi. Marche pour la dépose d'une bâche
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3
from 12:15 to 13:00
Geneva
Meeting point at Place des Augustins
Walk along Rue de Carouge
Performance at Rue De-Candolle 5
On December 3, it will take place a walk through the streets of Geneva, which for the occasion will become the stage for itinerant readings from Dante and Primo Levi.
The Poésie-Action atelier of the University of Geneva presents:
On December 3, 2025, the initiative De Dante à Levi. Marche pour la dépose d'une bâche will take place.
On that occasion, it will be possible to walk along the rue de Carouge, a Geneva thoroughfare currently under construction, where amid the noise and dust everything is being dismantled to be rebuilt.
Amidst the barriers and destroyed sidewalks, excerpts will be read from Canto XXVI of Dante's Inferno and from the chapter Il Canto di Ulisse (The Song of Ulysses) from Primo Levi's If This Is a Man, two works that, centuries apart, characterize the same descent into hell: that of the human soul in the face of barbarism. The steps will thus resound like an echo reverberating the voices of those who, yesterday as today, have gone through hell. Walking and reading, walking while reading.
The march will continue to the façade of the Uni Bastions of the University of Geneva building, in front of the monumental banner on which the words of Dante and Primo Levi have been in dialogue for almost two years. The final reading will then take place before the banner is taken down, folded and stored in its dark and silent repository.