On the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the birth of Corrado AlvaroCalabria continues the celebrations ofAlvarian yearinaugurated on April 15 at the Regional Council, on the impulse of the writer Giusy Staropoli Calafati and prof. Aldo Maria Moracemaximum living scholar of the Alvarian work.
On Friday 17 May at 16:50, at the stand of the Calabria Region (Oval Pavilion) at the Turin International Book Fair, one of the central events of the Alvarian calendar will be held: the presentation of the novel “Alvaro. More than a life” (Castelvecchi, 2025), written by Giusy Staropoli Calafati with the preface of prof. Aldo Maria Morace.
To moderate the meeting will be Francesco Mazza, artistic director of the jump for the Calabria Region.
A two -part dialogue between one of the most interesting contemporary Calabrian writers and one of the most authoritative Italianists of our time, united by a common goal: to renew the interest in Corrado Alvaro, the cardinal figure of the Italian literature of the twentieth century and a deep voice of the South of Europe.
The novel “Alvaro. More than a life” It arises from the profound desire to bring the new generations closer to the life and thought of one of the most significant Italian writers of the twentieth century, through a narrative that evokes life, thought and work with authenticity and contemporary gaze. A literary work that returns the man behind the intellectual, offering a personal and engaging key of access to his cultural heritage.
The presence at the Turin Book Fair represents a precious opportunity to report Alvaro’s thought and work, an author now entered the dimension of literary classicism, within one of the most important cultural events in Europe.
The initiative is part of a larger path of rediscovery and promotion of the Calabrian author, carried out with passion and rigor by Staropoli Calafati and Morace, protagonists of a renewed cultural movement that intends to relaunch the centrality of Alvaro in the contemporary intellectual panorama and in the study programs of the Italian school.
“Every man is responsible for his time”wrote Corrado Alvaro.
In this spirit, the Alvarian year continues its journey, as a free and shared tribute to the memory of an intellectual who gave voice to the South, with poetic force and European vision.