In Conversation with Tim Parks @ Italian Language Program UChicago

Описание: In Conversation with Tim Parks, with readings from "Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal" (April 29, 2021), moderated by Sara Dallavalle.

Sponsored by the Italian Language Program at the University of Chicago.

About the author:
Tim Parks is a novelist, essayist, travel writer and translator based in Italy.Author of eighteen novels, including the Booker-shortlisted, "Europa","Destiny", "Cleaver", and more recently "In Extremis", he has translatedworks by Moravia, Pavese, Calvino, Calasso, Tabucchi, Machiavelli andLeopardi. For many years he ran a post-graduate course in translation atIULM University, Milan, and is author of "Translating Style, a LiteraryApproach to Translation, a Translation Approach to Literature". His manynon-fiction works include "Italian Neighbours", "An Italian Education","Medici Money", "A Season with Verona", "Italian Ways" and "Italian Life",as well as a memoir on chronic pain and meditation, "Teach Us to Sit Still"and the recently published "Out of My Head", an unclassifiable book thatmixes essay and memoir in a reflection on the nature and location ofconsciousness. His critical writings include "Where I’m Reading From" andthe recent "Pen in Hand". He writes regularly for the New York Review ofBooks and the London Review of Books.

About the book:

"What’s in this book? The fruit of forty years in Italy. But not written up asmemoir. I’ve been that way before. "Italian Neighbours". "Italian Ways". Iknow the charm of the candid personal account, the bemused observerdiscovering Italy first hand. It’s fun. It has its authenticity. But after so longin this country, one wants to go deeper: get to the core of it, the patternthat underlies both the good and the bad, the wonderful human warmth ofthe place, its systematic cruelty.
We are told again and again that human experience is essentially the samethe world over. Happiness. Suffering. It is not true. Or only in part. You don’tneed to be long in Italy, looking for a job, sorting out your documents,dealing with your in-laws, colleagues, bank tellers, waiters, ticketinspectors, to understand that people behave differently here, expectdifferent things of each other. But it takes many years to understand thatthey also rejoice differently, are sad in different ways, over differentdramas."
Tim Parks, 2020


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00:03 Tim Park's Bio
04:05 Presentation of Italian Life
17:10 excerpt from Italian Life about Valeria
22:33 excerpt from Italian Life about James
32:06 excerpt from Italian Life about Rettore Ottone
37:00 general conversation about book topics
46:24 Parks about writing in Italian
54:35 Parks about teaching
01:05:50 Q&A
01:17:25 About his upcoming book on Garibaldi