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The Festival at Rome’s Basilica di Massenzio is a stage upon which the invited authors propose the fruit of their thoughts directly to a vast audience. The Festival di Massenzio is an invitation to share an experience that belongs to the world of writing. It can be listened to, much like a concert, and can be viewed as a theatrical work. The title of this edition of the Festival is a play on words of the Fellini masterpiece “La dolce vita“, to begin reading about that decade with a fresher attitude, even if many years have passed, with the considerations and analyses of philosophers and the imagined re-elaboration of narrators.
Departing from this linear provocation, a series of ten evenings will unwind: a kind of return to the past in order to move ahead better,as in the children’s board game Game of the Goose.
However, this year – alongside the usual contribution of the authors – there will also be interventions by philosophers and an economist. There are many female authors to testify to the fact that the strength and quality of a woman’s viewpoint are essential.
The first evening is dedicated to Ennio Flaiano.
16 Authors
Tahmima Anam – Pietrangelo Buttafuoco – Delphine De Vigan – Philippe Djian – Anais Ginori – Jamaica Kincaid – Maurizio Maggiani – Herta Müller (2009 Nobel Prize in Literature) – Anita Nair – Joyce Carol Oates – Kathy Reichs – Sapphire (Ramona Lofton) – Tiziano Scarpa – Walter Siti – Elizabeth Strout – Filippo Timi.
Five finalists of the Premio Strega 2010
7 Philosophers
Massimo Cacciari, Julia Kristeva, Giacomo Marramao, Michela Marzano, Mario Perniola, Marco Senaldi, Stefano Zecchi
1 Economist
Amartya Kumar Sen (1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences)
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