Deledda and Pamuk, two Nobels in the mirror between memory and nostalgia

Affinities and dissonances of two great names of world culture in the second edition of the "The Nobel meets the Nobel" event: the writer Grazia Deledda, awarded for literature in 1926, "dialogues" this year with Orahn Pamuk, Turkish novelist, awarded in 2006. Scholars and writers meet in Nuoro for the event promoted by Isre with the artistic direction of Francesco Muscau.

Two sessions of the conference "Sense of place, memory and nostalgia". The first, dedicated to the Sardinian writer, is curated by Professor Duilio Caocci, a university professor formerly secretary of the complete works of Deledda al Mibact. "Pamuk for his novels draws from his place of origin, Istanbul, Deledda tells the Barbagia with his characters and habits - he explained - The one of the high bourgeoisie of bankers of Istanbul, the other daughter of the rural bourgeoisie of a small city, geographically and culturally distant but both determined to tell the intimate link with their places and their people ".

Aspects brought into focus by Professor Dino Manca, a philologist from Sassari, one of the writer's greatest scholars. "With Grazia Deledda the sublimation of an archive of symbols and myths of an entire population has been realized. And Nuoro and Sardinia have become part of the European imagination - the expert underlined - in the autobiography 'Cosima' the I narrator tells an epic of the daily that incorporates the family, social and historical memory: Nuoro, maternal womb, point of departure and point of arrival, circularity and eternal return.It is the return to Itaca, to the lost homeland, to the umbilical cord never severed with Mother Earth ".

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