Zelbio Cult presents the next two meetings, both meetings are free to enter the theater in Piazza della Rimembranza 1.
The program: Giorgio Terruzzi
Friday 29th July the sports journalist takes the stage Giorgio Terruzzi which, among the screens and the pages of newspapers, gave voice to the most important events in the Italian sports world. An evening, moderated by Matteo Vanetti (mayor of Zelbio), in which brief portraits are outlined around and within the real lives of special people of the society of yesterday and today with particular attention to the world and to the values of sport and its heroes.
Dostoevsky And Fausto Malcovati
The meeting of Saturday 6 August dedicated to literature: at the center of the scene there is Fyodor Dostoevsky. In 2021, the two hundredth year of his birth fell and his works were celebrated everywhere with conferences, meetings and ad hoc publications.
This year, the figure of the greatest Russian writer got caught up in the controversy surrounding the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Speaking of Dostoevsky now therefore means taking a look at the Russian angels and demons, and to do so is Fausto Malcovati, one of the most authoritative Italian Slavists, professor of Russian language and literature at the State University of Milan, author of the recent essay “An idea by Dostoevskij” (Cuepress).
The Russian author’s novels are populated by powerful characters: in some cases for their extraordinary inner strength and profound spirituality, in others for their arrogance, perversion, violence. The conflict between good and evil, between the will to overcome one’s contradictions and the fragility with which one indulges one’s vices, is constant in all novels.
The path of righteousness is tiring, it is tiring to fully assume responsibility for one’s actions: but this is the path that those who want to reach maturity, wisdom must undertake. So there is the path of angels and that of demons: we are endowed with free will, Dostoevsky tells us, it is up to us to choose.
Fausto Malcovati he is professor of Russian Language and Literature at the University of Milan, translator and theater critic, and one of the leading experts in Russian theater and culture.
In addition to having translated all of Chekhov’s theater and having worked on the theoretical writings of the main masters of directing, such as Stanislavskij, he has dealt with Russian fiction of the second half of the nineteenth century, with monographs and essays dedicated to Gogol ‘, Dostoevskij, Tolstoj .
In 2016 he won the Ubu award for the value of his research.
Zelbio
Zelbio – an evocative village of 200 inhabitants at 800 meters above sea level between the mountains and woods overlooking Lake Como – confirms itself as a meeting place with the calendar of Zelbio CULT which, on a weekly basis – sees the protagonists of literature alternate on the stage , art, journalism.
Creator and curator of this review, in its XV edition, is Armando Besio: with friends of the Zelbio Culture Committee and with the support of Pro Loco and of Municipal libraryhas built a rich calendar in the municipal theater, always with free admission.
THE APPOINTMENTS:
– Saturday 13 August: “A world unique in the world” with Carlo Borlenghi, Andrea Vitali and Sara Vitali. A photographer, a writer and an editor on the (re) discovery of Lake Como.
– Friday 19 August: “A Thousand Africas” with Pietro Del Re. From the Sahara to Zimbabwe, from Mali to Mozambique. Images and stories of a special correspondent “A little further south”. With texts by Lucio Caracciolo and Denis Curti. The Milanese non-profit organization Okapia active in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo will also be presented in the evening.