Sunday
November 15th
16:30
Adults
The wagging of the emptiness
Location:
Provincial Meeting Center, Falco Hall
Paid ticket
price
€ 3
Pets are an antidote to today's frenzy and self-centeredness. They are unconditional love. But what happens when they pass away? How do you experience that clandestine mourning that isn't granted legitimacy? Jonathan Bazzi (Bestiola, Mondadori) recounts how Mirtilla, his cat, was able to expand the boundaries of her own self and then, after death, make it empty and painful. Along with her, other presences, other guardians of thresholds and liminal creatures like Jofi, the chow-chow Freud always brought to his sessions; Carlo, Emily Dickinson's mute Newfoundland accomplice; or Korasek, biologist Simona Kossak's inseparable crow. A layered and hybrid story, both human and animal, and a small ethic of tenderness. In conversation with the author Raffaele Riba.
Pets are an antidote to today's frenzy and self-centeredness. They are unconditional love. But what happens when they pass away? How do you experience that clandestine mourning that isn't granted legitimacy? Jonathan Bazzi (Bestiola, Mondadori) recounts how Mirtilla, his cat, was able to expand the boundaries of her own self and then, after death, make it empty and painful. Along with her, other presences, other guardians of thresholds and liminal creatures like Jofi, the chow-chow Freud always brought to his sessions; Carlo, Emily Dickinson's mute Newfoundland accomplice; or Korasek, biologist Simona Kossak's inseparable crow. A layered and hybrid story, both human and animal, and a small ethic of tenderness. In conversation with the author Raffaele Riba.
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