The "journey" into American literature continues at "The Garden" Community Center on Via Roma in Figline, with an afternoon on Thursday, Thursday 20, dedicated to William Faulkner.
The readings aloud, curated by Angelo Australi, will be from The Scream and the Fury, another great masterpiece of literature made in U.S.A. The event will begin at 4:30 p.m.
PLOT: 1929, which has gone down in history as the year of the Wall Street crash that marked the beginning of the Great Depression, is also a pivotal year for American literature. Indeed, Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" and Faulkner's "The Scream and the Fury" come out, a coincidence that brings the very different books of two friends closer together. Faulkner gives baroque voice to all the obsessions and fanaticisms of that South whose interminable decadence began with defeat in the Civil War. The mythical county of Oxford becomes the theater of an irremediable conflict between black and white, good and evil, past and present. The novel is a complex symphonic poem in 4 tempos, punctuating the misfortunes of a family in the Deep South.
The next appointment, to learn about great American literature, is for Thursday, March 5, with Ernest Hemingway and The Forty-Nine Tales.
The Readings at the Garden are part of the January-March Literary Agenda program - for the full program click here.