Libri Come 2024 – Umanità - XV Edizione

The Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone hosts Libri Come, the festival of books and reading curated by Michele De Mieri, Rosa Polacco and Marino Sinibaldi.

An edition, number fifteen, under the sign of a simple and powerful keyword, albeit full of contradictions and different meanings: Humanity.

It is precisely in difficult times like these, amidst old and new conflicts, and after fighting a pandemic, in fact, that we must try to remain human in order to best face the challenges of our time. Not least because the very concept of humanity is today under attack, from new sensitivities, towards animal and plant life, and new scenarios, such as that of Artificial Intelligence. What can we say then about migrants, who always have recourse to it, and women, for example, who are often crushed by anti-feminism and violence?

It is around these themes that the rich calendar of Libri Come is developed, offering around one hundred meetings organised in the form of lectures, dialogues, round tables, readings, performances and exhibitions.

And the inauguration is twofold: in the morning in eight of the city's high schools, where the eight writers Caterina Bonvicini, Laura Buffoni, Annalisa Camilli and Giulia Caminito, Mauro Covacich, Piero Dorfles, Paolo Pecere, Romana Petri, and Licia Troisi will present their books, meeting with teachers and students; and one on the afternoon of Friday 22 March in the Auditorium halls with the first meetings that will take place over three days, until Sunday evening.

Meetings, lectures, dialogues, performances with many names in Italian and world literature, including Asmaa Alghoul, Julian Barnes, Elif Batuman, Boris Belenkin, Àngeles Caso, David Grossman, Gohar Homayounpour, Raphael Krafft, Etgar Keret, Andrej Kurkov, Bjorn Larsson, Alex Mar, Ottessa Moshfegh, Selim Nassib, Sofi Oksanen, Selby Wynn Schwartz, Tamar Weiss-Gabbay, Massimo Recalcati, Roberto Saviano, Paolo Benanti, Elena Stancanelli and Paolo Nori, Zerocalcare with Jacopo Zanchini, Chiara Valerio with Serena Dandini, Gianrico Carofiglio with Francesca Schianchi, Diego Bianchi and Marco Damilano, Emanuele Trevi and Andrea Cortellessa, Ermanno Cavazzoni and Vinicio Capossela, Lea Melandri with Chiara Valerio and many others.

Homages

A memory of Franco Basaglia one hundred years after his birth; a reading tribute to the writer Fleur Jaeggy (with Chiara Valerio, Elena Stancanelli, Teresa Ciabatti, Antonio Gnoli, Paolo Di Paolo and Leonardo G. Luccone), and then to Alberto Arbasino with Andrea Cortellessa and Michele Masneri. The book and Sunday's meeting with Valentina Furlanetto and Teresa Ciabatti is also dedicated to Basaglia.

Libri Come per Franz Kafka

The meeting on Friday 22, Una serata Kafka, focuses on the work of Franz Kafka, whose death centenary falls this year. More talk of the Prague writer continues on Saturday 23 with Giorgio Fontana's Kafka, in dialogue with Adriano Sofri.

The final event, Tra Umanità e disumanità (Between Humanity and Inhumanity), on Sunday 24 at 6.30 p.m., dedicated to the two fronts where the war is being fought in these months, will be attended by Andrej Kurkov, Etgar Keret and Francesca Manocchi, together with Marino Sinibaldi.

The Auditorium spaces will also host the exhibitions:

• Gli scarabocchi, a comics exhibition showcasing the work of Maicol&Mirco;
• L'Umanità per immagini (Humanity in pictures) curated by Ansa;
• Buongiorno Hospice, an audio documentary on the "end of life" by Germano Scurti;
• in AuditoriumArte, SantuarioMobile by Franco Biagioni curated by Simonetta Bellotti.

The programme may undergo changes