Some have narrated love. And some, like Jane Austen, have narrated the human being.
In Cortina d'Ampezzo, in the second appointment of the cycle The Magic of the Classics of Una Montagna di Libri, Alessandro Piperno guides the audience in discovering an author capable of transcending the centuries with a surprising modernity.
From Pride and Prejudice to Sense and Sensibility, from Emma to Mansfield Park, Austen stages passions, rivalries, ambitions and social conventions with a subtle irony that continues to resonate in the present.
For Piperno, one of the greatest contemporary Italian writers and a refined interpreter of the classics, his work is a perfect balance between fable and reality, where behind the elegance of country estates lie the deepest anxieties of the human soul: envy, desire, jealousy, snobbery, and the quest for happiness.
A journey into great literature that also becomes a narrative of our time, set against the unique backdrop of the Dolomites.
A special opportunity to hear one of the most authoritative voices of Italian culture reinterpreting an author who continues to move millions of readers around the world and who, over two centuries later, has never ceased to question the human heart.
