The screening of La Storia, a TV miniseries based on Elsa Morante’s famous 1974 novel, will be one of the highlights of this year’s edition of “Multipli Forti- Voices from Contemporary Italian Literature” the Italian literary festival presented by the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, in collaboration with FUIS (Italian Unitary Writers Federation), THE BRIDGE Prize, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, CUNY Hunter College, CIMA (Center for Italian Modern Art) and RIZZOLI Bookstore. The festival will be in New York City at multiple locations on 10-11-12 April 2024.
The TV miniseries will have its American Premiere Screening on April 11 at 7 pm at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, with the first two episodes shown in Italian with English subtitles (the series has 8 episodes in all). The screening will be introduced by director Francesca Archibugi and screenwriter Giulia Calenda. The American translators of Elsa Morante’s books, Jenny McPhee and Ann Goldstein, and the American publisher who will republish La Storia will also be present.
The series produced by RAi Fiction and Picomedia, was a great success among this winter’s television shows in Italy, acclaimed by public and critics alike. Transposing Morante’s monumental novel was a steep challenge, as much as portraying the poignancy and grief pouring out of the story of schoolteacher Ida (celebrated actor Jasmine Trinca) and her two sons Nino and Useppe in a desperate Rome during the end of fascism, Second War World and its aftermath.
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Multipli Forti, promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute in New York directed by Fabio Finotti, and curated by Maria Ida Gaeta is an initiative to promote Italian literature aimed at the reading public and the international publishing world. It is a transatlantic window on major literary trends of Italian fiction, told by the authors who have written and are writing it.
The third edition in 2024 will feature: Francesca Archibugi, Annalena Benini, Matteo B. Bianchi, Giulia Calenda, Giulia Caminito, Giancarlo De Cataldo, Viola Di Grado, Alain Elkann, Emily Greenhouse, Isabella Hammad, Rea Hederman, Lorenza Honorati, Daniele Mencarelli, Andrea Molesini, Carmen Pellegrino, Saif Raja, Loretta Santini per Ada D’Adamo, Nadeesha Uyangoda, Alice Urciolo, Marina Valensise, Massimo Vallerani, Carlo Vecce.
Guest authors – in conversation with each other and with American scholars, translators, editors and specialists – were asked to reflect on six major themes of current literature. Each Multipli Forti event, at various places and times over the three days, will open with unpublished texts they have written as a response to these themes: (1) individual and collective destinies; (2) “Italianness”; (3) the encounter with reality; (4) myth; (5) bodies and power; (6) Genius loci.
In addition to these six topics of discussion, this third edition will also deal with an issue that is at the core of our contemporary literature, namely the interaction and interweaving of fiction with audiovisual languages. This will be the focus of the panel at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò introducing the La Storia screening.
