Tre incontri con Primo Levi

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 -  18:30

Società Dante Alighieri - Rue du Perron 16, Ginevra 

Mandatory registration at the following mail : eventi@dantealighieri.ch 


FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16 - 18:00

Maison Rousseau et Littérature - Grand-Rue 40, Ginevra 

Mandatory registration at the following mail : eventi@dantealighieri.ch 

Tre incontri con Primo Levi in ​​Geneva

October 15: A meeting at the Società Dante Alighieri with Domenico Scarpa

October 16: At the Maison Rousseau et Littérature, the presentation of "Il segno del Chimico" a staged dialogue preceded by the lecture "Primo Levi europeo" by Domenico Scarpa with Francesca Bruni and Simone Buffa

These are the scheduled events:

October 15: "Primo Levi multimediale" - Levi was a complex figure, precisely because he was a multimedia writer who experimented early on with every writing-related technology, right up to the personal computer.

October 16: "Primo Levi europeo"- From the outset, Primo Levi’s work embodies a distinct vision and concept of Europe: free and liberal, open and democratic. It is a concept, or rather, a narrative vision, that engages with the arduous process of building a united Europe in the post-war period. It is a vision that fosters a particularly intense dialogue with German readers and, in Italy, with schoolchildren and their teachers.

To conclude a staged dialogue "Il segno del chimico": a two-voice journey through the life of Primo Levi: an adventurous life that spanned the years of racist Fascism, a passion for mountain climbing, the ordeal of Auschwitz, and a trek across a war-torn Europe to finally return home to Turin. Chemistry serves as both the starting point and the unifying thread of this dramatic dialogue; it incorporates numerous stories, yet not a single word is invented—every one of them is drawn directly from Levi’s own works.

 

Tre incontri con Primo Levi

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The Mark of the Chemist: A Dialogue with Primo Levi

In The Mark of the Chemist: A Dialogue with Primo Levi, Primo Levi answers the questions of the interviewer and, in an intense and unique exchange, he talks about his scientific vocation, his life as witness to the concentration camp, and his experiences as narrator and laboratory technician.