A EUNIC event
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura, along with EUNIC, the network of the European cultural institutes of Toronto formed by Alliance Française, Camões, Goethe-Institut, and Istituto Italiano di Cultura, invites you to their next book club meeting. “Two Women” will also give us the opportunity to reflect about the harshness of war for women, in occasion of International Women Day.
Thursday, March 8, at 6.30pm: Two Women (it. La Ciociara) by Alberto Moravia, published in Italy in 1957. Film excerpts will be screened.
The narrative voice of Moravia’s novel is Cesira: a character the world has come to know through Sophia Loren’s performance in Vittorio De Sica’s film adaptation. Franco Gallippi’s reading concentrates on Cesira’s attempt to protect her daughter Rosetta from history with a capital “H”. In the Italy of 1943-45, is a loss of innocence at all avoidable? Moravia’s pen and De Sica’s camera bring to life Cesira and Rosetta, two women, who tell the tale of Italy’s hopes and dreams.