(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 26 - When has the language of literature changed forever? What are the loves that have influenced literature and pop culture? What was the representation of the woman in Greek and Roman myths and what remains of that story today? These and others are the questions, the reflections and the exceptional points of view on TV with 8 great protagonists, one per episode and per theme addressed by literature, love, history and satire: Alessandro Baricco, Eva Cantarella, Telmo Pievani , Chiara Valerio, Chiara Gamberale, Giacomo Papi, Gad Lerner and Paolo Di Paolo in "Author's Lessons - TV Sessions", Feltrinelli's masterclasses in the first TV on laF (Sky 135) broadcast starting from Monday 29 November at 21.10. The story, the stories, the passions and the teachings of 8 masters,in a unique selection of lessons-shows, every Monday and also available on demand on Sky and Sky Go.
Literature, sociology, science and nature, mathematics, love, satire, history: eight areas addressed by eight authors, who share their stories and their knowledge in an exciting journey, between education and entertainment, between past and present, in search of reading keys, points of reference, fundamental evolutionary steps to understand and orient oneself in the complexity of contemporary cultural and social aspects.
In the first appointment of "Author's lessons - TV Sessions" on Monday 29 November, Alessandro Baricco, in "The words of Literature - Lightness, ferocity, patience", illustrates how to read everyone's literary masterpieces with different eyes. times through the perspective of their respective authors, such as Charles Dickens, JD Salinger, Joseph Conrad and Thomas Bernhard; follows Eva Cantarella who, in "The diversity of women", tackles the cultural construction of the female figure over time, on a journey that begins in ancient Greece, between mythology, medicine and philosophy, to understand when women began to be considered inferior to man and imagining when the gender difference, along with certain stereotypes, could end.
Following, these are the interventions scheduled for the following Monday: "Science and nature: was Darwin right?" with Telmo Pievani on the phenomena that have upset the ecosystems of plants, animals and human beings from the origins of time to the current climate emergency (6 December); "The mathematics that made history", where Chiara Valerio reviews some famous mathematicians and scientists, highlighting their paradoxes, the most curious anecdotes and the lesser-known implications (13 December); "How do we speak when we talk about love", in which Chiara Gamberale retraces the most beautiful love stories of all time and, through literary and pop culture references, reflects on every side of this feeling, from the unrequited to relationships in the era of social media (December 20); "Reading and writing satire: a guide "with Giacomo Papi, to discover the mechanisms that guide satire and laughter, and how their language since ancient times can reveal the true face of ourselves and of our society, canceling conventions social and hierarchies of power (December 27); "Stories from the Middle East between economics and religions", where Gad Lerner addresses, between history, politics and social transformations, the theme of the extremist fringes of the three great monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam ( January 3); "The great novel of the twentieth century: Proust, Woolf, Joyce" with Paolo Di Paolo, discovering the moment in which in the twentieth century the language of literature changed forever, from Marcel Proust and his "Alla ricerca of lost time "to the triumph of the sensations revealed by Virginia Woolf, until the famous 16 June, when James Joyce places the story of his Ulysses, to draw the journey that man has always made within himself, thanks to literature (10 January). (HANDLE).