Luigi Farrauto and Alberto Garlini, thanks to the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, will take part in events in Montreal at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival dedicates to contemporary Italian literature.
- Friday April 24th – 10am
Hotel 10 (Salle Saint Laurent) 10 Sherbrooke West
WRITING, EDITING, TRANSLATING: WHAT CAN STAND UP TO AI? – Animation : Jennifer Varkon.
At a time when AI is on everyone’s mind, in electronic devices and workplaces, are there professions and areas of activity in the world of books where a human presence will remain essential? A discussion between Luigi Farrauto (Italy), author (Géographie d’un voyageur craintif) and travel writer for Lonely Planet; Andreas Kessaris (Canada), bookseller (Paragraphe Bookstore) and author (The Grand Tour of Park Ex); Daniel Hahn (UK), translator and author (If This be Magic. The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation). Language(s) : French, English / 8$ Tickets
- Friday April 24th – 7:30pm
Hotel 10 (Salle Godin) 10 Sherbrooke West
ALBERTO GARLINI – LITALIE EXHALTANTE DE RUDES DÉCENNIES – Animation : Dominique Garand
Interview (in Italian) with the Italian novelist Alberto Garlini, author of gripping novels with a broad scope that delve into recent Italian history. Les Noirs et les Rouges recounts the political journey of a young student who moves from activism to violence in 1970s Italy. Le temps de la fête et des roses follows the lives of four friends during the dark 1980s. Venise est une fête portrays a twilight city, haunted by the figure of Hemingway. The interview is conducted in Italian, with occasional comments in French from the interviewer. Language(s) : French, Italian / 8$ Tickets
- Saturday April 25th – 7pm
Hotel 10 (Salle Godin) 10 Sherbrooke West
LEONARDO PADURA ET ALBERTO GARLINI – LE ROMAN FACE À L’HISTOIRE
History is a rich source for novelists. Why? What do they seek in it? How do they find their inspiration there? Two masters of the novel, the Cuban Leonardo Padura (Hérétiques, La transparence du temps) and the Italian Alberto Garlini (Les Noirs et les Rouges, Venise est une fête), discuss—one in Spanish, the other in Italian—both assisted by their interpreters in French. Language(s) : French, Spanish, Italian / 8$ Tickets
- Sunday April 26th – 10am
Hotel 10 (Salle Exécutive) 10 Sherbrooke West
CAFÉ RENCONTRE – CAP SUR L’ITALIE
Private professional meeting between ten authors from Quebec and ini”,”Italian writer”], novelist and programming director of the Festival Pordenonelegge, in Pordenone (Friuli Venezia Giulia region). The meeting will be held in Italian with French interpretation. Language(s) : French, Italian / BY INVITATION ONLY
- Sunday April 26th – 11:30am
Hotel 10 (Salle Exécutive) 10 Sherbrooke West
TRAVEL WRITING WITHIN EVERYONE’S REACH
Do you enjoy travelling, exploring new places and discovering other cultures? Would you like to try your hand at travel writing and maybe make earn some money from it? This skill cannot be improvised. Learn the tricks of the trade with Italian author Luigi Farrauto (Géographie d’un voyageur craintif), editor for Lonely Planet travel guides. Bring your own paper, pen or tablet. Limited number of participants. To register, contact isabel.cout@metropolisbleu.org – Language(s) : French, English / FREE
- Sunday April 26th – 2:30pm
Hotel 10 (Salle Saint Laurent) 10 Sherbrooke West
AILLEURS ET EXOTISME – LOIN DES CLICHÉS. CONVERSATION ENTRE BLAISE NDALA, GUY DELISLE ET LUIGI FARRAUTO
Literature often opens a door to other worlds, other lives, other cultures. Can it escape exoticism? How far can one reinvent reality without betraying it? Whose “other” is the writer? In L’équation avant la nuit, Blaise Ndala casts the son of a former Lumumba minister into the meshes of an identity trap against the backdrop of the race for the atomic bomb between the Allies and Nazi Germany. In Pour une fraction de seconde, cartoonist Guy Delisle depicts in images the tumultuous life of English photographer Edweard Muybridge, who emigrates to California, becomes a pioneer of photography and cinema, and is, incidentally… a murderer. In Géographie d’un voyageur craintif, the Italian author Luigi Farrauto, also a contributor to Lonely Planet travel guides, narrates, in a deeply humanist and self-mocking account (he is afraid of everything), his expeditions to various places around the world, each time off the beaten path. Must one leave oneself to reach the other? Language(s) : French / 8$ Tickets
For more information, visit the website: INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL BLUE METROPOLIS
