“Going forward with our heads forever turned back”: Re-reading Giorgio Bassani

“Going forward with our heads forever turned back”: Re-reading Giorgio Bassani November 4 Harper Memorial Library, Room 104 9am: Breakfast 9.30 am: The Garden of the Finzi-Contini by Giorgio Bassani. An American Tale. Roberta Antognini, Vassar College 10 am: Bassani versus Pasolini: The Narrator’s Voice in Il romanzo di Ferrara Armando Maggi, The University of Chicago Coffee Break 11am: How can a Survivor from the Camp be Fat? On Fleshy Excess in Giorgio Bassani’s A Plaque on Via Mazzini Maria Anna Mariani, The University of Chicago 11.30 am: Talking about the Weather During the Holocaust: Giorgio Bassani’s Memory of a Lost Italian Heimat Emanuel Rota, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Discussion 12.30: Lunch Organized by Armando Maggi and Maria Anna Mariani Sponsored by: Istituto Italiano di Cultura Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, The University of Chicago