{"id":592,"date":"2018-10-30T09:53:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/?p=592"},"modified":"2024-10-02T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T08:43:09","slug":"pisa-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/2018\/10\/30\/pisa-book-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The lost canon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the stimulating discussion on biology and literature I had on the occasion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/2018\/10\/24\/biological-intelligence\/\">Internet Festival<\/a>, I&#8217;ll be back in Pisa next November 11 to participate in the 16<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pisabookfestival.com\/programma\/\">Pisa Book Festival<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/2018\/10\/30\/pisa-book-festival\/pbf\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-593\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-593\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/files\/2018\/10\/PBF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/files\/2018\/10\/PBF.jpg 416w, https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/files\/2018\/10\/PBF-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/files\/2018\/10\/PBF-348x300.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sunday 11 November morning at 10 am, in the <strong>Book Club<\/strong> <strong>Room<\/strong>, I&#8217;ll discuss with the writer <a href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luca_Ricci_(scrittore)\">Luca Ricci<\/a> about the current state of Italian\u00a0literature, the role of criticism, and the controversial issue of designing a <strong>contemporary canon<\/strong> of Italian authors. The discussion will follow-up on the publishing of my last book, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/2018\/06\/20\/life-against-literature\/\">Vita contro letteratura<\/a>. Mine will be the last of three conversations on the &#8220;lost canon&#8221; that Luca Ricci will have with critics and scholars: on Friday 9 at 6 pm he will be in dialogue with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doppiozero.com\/materiali\/la-letteratura-mutante\">Gianluigi Simonetti<\/a>; on Saturday 10 at 3 pm he will encounter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laboratoriodiletteratura.it\/\">Alberto Casadei<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the Festival&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pisabookfest?lang=it\">Twitter account<\/a> you can follow the literary contest that will establish the names of the Italian writers the public appreciate most. Join twit-criticism!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the stimulating discussion on biology and literature I had on the occasion of the Internet Festival, I&#8217;ll be back in Pisa next November 11 to participate in the 16th\u00a0edition of the Pisa Book Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[184,257,255,258,199,254,253,256],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alberto-casadei","tag-canon","tag-gianluigi-simonetti","tag-italian-contemporary-literature","tag-literary-criticism","tag-luca-ricci","tag-pisa-book-festival","tag-vita-contro-letteratura"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}