"Edith Bruck combines the need to remember with the drive toward life. The desire to project into the future with the strength of experience" (Carlo Lizzani). Company is a "day of reckoning in the form of the novel: tender and ruthless, made of truth and of feelings, characters and emotions. It is a dialogue of love and violent protagonist-narrator and his mother, who gave birth in a world where it was possible the horrors of Auschwitz. It is a confrontation with the faith of avi, what the mother embodied by force, one that is ridiculously, horribly become a fault. You always open the game in the history and the story of a survivor in the face of history. [...] In this dialogue between past and present emerge emblematic figures. Not only the mother, who died at the camp, and his brother Odon, passed away at the end of a life of emigration to South America, but his sister survived, the writer friend, childhood neighbors, the Italian husband: witnesses each of its experience, present together in continuous dialogue with the memory. "
Program Coordinator
Stefano Gambari, head of Library of the House of Memory and History. Speakers: Pupa Garribba, interviewer's Shoah Foundation; Gian Mario Gillio, director of the monthly 'Compare'; Alessandro Portelli, professor of 'La Sapienza University; Silvana Sari, Director of Libraries of Rome. L 'actress Simona Mastroianni read some passages. This will be the author.
initiative by the Library of the House of Memory and History and the Circolo Gianni Bosio, in collaboration with the associations of the House
