'Writings in Transit' continues with 'Making the Shell'

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'Writings in Transit' continues with 'Making the Shell'

16/03/26

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The workshop Writings in Transit, open to all and led by Silvia Acocella, with the coordinators of the Permanent Workshops, will follow the shell-making of the art of storytelling, tucking in with Gregor Samsa under the canapé of his room.

New meeting scheduled for Thursday, March 19, 2026 in Piovani Classroom from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

The same desire for shelter and isolation will be wrapped up in the reasoning madness of Pirandello'sHenry IV and will be contained in Into the Wild's Magic Bus 142. The shell in which we curl up can be punctured and reveal the beyond, like certain holes in paper skies that unite plots, from The Fool Mattia Pascal to The Truman show. From the wounded/woundedness of Once Upon a Time in America, Serena Bruno will tell of projections, magic lanterns, and pulpy accumulations of silent and orphaned things. Passing with Nina Jotti through house-worlds, which shape the mollusk of stories, and through abandoned houses as empty shells, filmed by Livio Arminio, we will hear of Casa di Bambola a sound in two voices, with Alessandra Tempra and Ludovica Colameo. Using the extraordinary life of the hermit crab that inhabits shells not its own, we will analyze the new novelistic form of the twentieth century, starting with the gesture of huddling in the trenches of the Great War. Shell-making will prove to be the dominant movement of the novel quanta, a reflection of our spiraling galaxy. Juxtaposing the shells of two pages, using Aby Warburg's method and the rule of good neighborliness, we will hear Calvino's Spiral and Levi's poem Meleagrin curving and enclosing the same human trace.

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