2024 Mantua Literature Festival
Unipol Group once again sponsors the 2024 Literature Festival, held in Mantua from the 4th to the 8th September.
The Festival, now in its twenty-eighth edition, was the first international literature festival established in Italy 28 years ago.
Over 330 guests will be involved, with interviews, themed itineraries, shows, workshops and open spaces throughout the day; overall, more than 241 events are set to take place in Mantua and beyond the city limits.
At the Festival we are the only partner of Annie Cohen-Solal’s “Picasso Esule” scheduled for Thursday the 5th September in Piazza Castello.
The writer Annie Cohen-Solal has dedicated her literary production to great artists who have faced exile and, thanks to numerous previously unpublished archive sources, she now offers a fascinating and original interpretation of the creator of Guernica. Picasso. The Foreigner (Prix Femina Essai 2021) is a feverish and passionate tale that stretches as far as the present day, evoking our most pressing concerns: "The scandal that sees the greatest artist of the twentieth century branded because he is a foreigner", writes the author "is this not evocative of the current regurgitations of ordinary xenophobia?". The curator of the two exhibitions Picasso a Palazzo Te. Poesia e Salvezza and Picasso lo straniero a Palazzo Reale, Cohen-Solal will be chatting to the writer Niccolò Ammaniti, author of a piece inspired by the book. The meeting will be hosted by Michele Fusilli.
The Group will also be the sole partner of a series of events, from Thursday the 5th to Sunday the 8th September, entitled “La parte dei critici”: over the course of three meetings with critics of different generations and origins, the aim will be to reconnect the different threads of a discourse fragmented between universities, newspapers and social media, to offer a richer and more complex image of celebrated works and trends. The writer Vincenzo Latronico will discuss with Fabrizio Maria Spinelli the self-narration of Emmanuel Carrère and Annie Ernaux, with Tim Parks the post-modernism of Umberto Eco, with Sara Marzullo the feminine generational novels of Sally Rooney and Lilian Fishman, with Anna Vollmer the return to the Italian rural panorama of Elena Ferrante and Michela Murgia. Speaking critically of great authors is ultimately a way of speaking well about them. The project is set to take place at the Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria.
