Natalia Ginzburg and Primo Levi are among the most influential pens of post-World War II Italy. Both from Turin, Jews and anti-fascists, their paths as authors intertwined in the literary landscape of the second half of the 20th century.
Domenico Scarpa, one of the leading scholars of Ginzburg and Levi, and the director of the Italian Cultural Institute, will explore in a dialogue the writers’ production in a conversation, analyzing the points of convergence and divergence in their works as much as in their lives.
The conference, open to everyone who wants to discover or learn more about the work of the two writers, will be held in French.
Domenico Scarpa is a literary critic, publishing consultant, translator, and lecturer. He has worked for the Turin-based Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi since 2008 and has edited or co-edited for Einaudi and Mondadori several books by or on Levi. Scarpa has also been – for 25 years – the editor of almost all the books by Natalia Ginzburg published by Einaudi; particularly noteworthy are his editions of Tutto il teatro (2005), Un’assenza. Racconti, memorie, cronache 1933-1988 (2016), Vita immaginaria (2021); he is currently editing the 1934-36 correspondence between Leone and Natalia Ginzburg. Scarpa has been researching Italo Calvino since the mid-1980s and his monumental centenary monograph Calvino fa la conchiglia. La costruzione di uno scrittore (2023) published by Hoepli summarizes his work to date. Moreover, since 2019, Scarpa has been the editor of Graham Greene’s novels for Sellerio.
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