(12 April 2017) Italo Calvino’s first novel published in 1947 “The Path to the Spider’s Nests” is set in Liguria during the Second World War and the Resistance. “This novel is the first I every wrote, if you don’t count the few short stories. What do I feel when revisit it now? I now see it as a book born anonymously from the general climate of an era, from a moral tension, a literary taste that our generation identified with after the Second World War”. His work was recently translated by the Swedish publishing house Natur och Kultur within a wider project devoted to the Italian author. The translation will be presented at the Italian Cultural Institute of Stockholm, which has organised a conference (in Italian with Swedish interpretation) on Thursday, April 13th at 18:00. Bruno Falcetto, Professor of contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Milan “is invited to the ICI to present Calvino’s ‘Path to the Spider’s Nests’. In addition to teaching 19th and 20th century Italian literature, Falcetto is also a member of the Doctor of Science of literary, artistic, and environmental heritage college. His appearance at the ICI of Stockholm is an opportunity to further explore one of the leading authors of European literature of the 20th century”. (red)

BRUNO FALCETTO

Bruno Falcetto (b. Milan 1958) teaches contemporary Italian literature at the University of Milan. His main areas of focus are 19th and 20th century narrative prose and poetry with a particular attention to realist forms of writing. He published a comprehensive history of neorealist narrative published by Mursia in 1992 and essays on various authors (from Calvino to Gallian and from Pratolini to Caproni). He also conducted an extensive textual curation, concretised in editions for “I Meridiani” Mondadori, novels and short stories of Italo Calvino (with Claudio Milanini and Mario Barenghi, 1991-1994), the works of Ignazio Silone (1998-1999) and of Mario Soldati (2006-2011). He also created and is coordinating a re-publication of Soldati’s works for “Oscar” Mondadori. He also regularly collaborates at the annual “Tirature” (il Saggiatore – Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori).