After having occupied the chair “Modern Literatures of Neolatin Europe” for two decades at the College de France, Professor Carlo Ossola gave his closing lecture a few months ago.
Elected to the French Academy in 2020, Ambassador Maurizio Serra is the first Italian to enter the Dome.
One is a specialist on Dante, for whom he coordinated the impeccable bilingual edition published in the Pleiade to salute the 7th centenary of the death of the author of The Divine Comedy. The other is a perfect connoisseur of Malaparte, to whom he has devoted a reference biography (Malaparte, vies et Légendes, Grasset 2011). We brought them together in Paris to discuss what unites their favorite writers across the centuries and the interests of time.
LE FIGARO. - When we confront Dante's work with that of Malaparte, should we not first underline that their points of view are reversed? Malaparte thinks, sees, and listens to Hell, the language of nihilism and destruction.
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