Literatur: Anna Vollmer im Gespräch mit Dario Ferrari

In the organizer's words:

As part of the literature series in which Italian authors present their latest publications to the Cologne public, the Italian Cultural Institute Cologne is hosting a meeting with Dario Ferrari, the author of the novel La ricreazione è finita (The Break is Over), which was recently published in Italy by Sellerio and in German by Verlag Klaus Wagenbach.

The conversation, which will be held in Italian with simultaneous translation, will be moderated by Anna Vollmer and will take place on Thursday, May 7 at 7 pm.

Marcello, around thirty and without a serious job, resists his girlfriend's efforts to deepen their relationship and instead tries to continue his life as a freshly graduated ex-student. Under no circumstances does he want to follow in his father's footsteps and take over the family bar. More out of defiance than conviction, Marcello therefore applies for a doctoral scholarship at the Faculty of Philosophy at his former university, which he is even awarded, much to everyone's surprise. Once he entered the academic world, Marcello became acquainted with the intrigues, power struggles and the often feigned ideological trench warfare at the faculty and got caught up in the intrigues of his doctoral supervisor, who gave him a very special topic for his thesis: The literary work of the left-wing terrorist Tito Sella. But why is his legendary literature professor so interested in the little-known Sella, who died in prison? And what is behind his supposedly lost autobiography?

Dario Ferrari was born in Viareggio and graduated with a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Pisa. The title of his first literary work is La quarta versione di Giuda (2020). With the widely translated La ricreazione è finita (The break is over), he has reached over 100,000 readers in Italy and won several literary awards.

Anna Vollmer studied Italian, English and history in Heidelberg and Rome. She is an editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

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