Meeting with Maria Attanasio

Poetic creativity will be investigated in this meeting with a writer and a poet of recognized sensitivity and wide culture. Maria Attanasio will talk about her poetry, about the problem of poetic and narrative writing, about the relationship between literary narrative and history.
Her word always conveys a social message.

She’s a celebrated Sellerio author, and her historical narratives originate from true stories which evoke silences and distances far away, yet they resonate live, close to and within us.
The individual destiny intervenes to change history and is consolidated in the reality of the individual stories. As a result, her unforgettable characters, always weak and marginalized, though “immense”, act in order to change history, as rebels in an unjust society: they seek a different society, and finally find it with courage and dignity.