‘Tristes Tropiques’ by Claude Lévi-Strauss. A Reading by Toni Servillo
€ 7.00The opening sentence of Tristes Tropiques by C. Lévi-Strauss: ‘I hate traveling and travelers,’ sounds all the more paradoxical if one considers that what follows is one of the most fascinating travel books ever written. But Tristes Tropiques, as Toni Servillo’s reading will show, is much more than that. It is indeed a journey inside man, his narratives, his cultures; a journey into the history of the world and of relationships between colonizing and colonized nations; a journey into the perspective of every society that looks to other societies, presuming to be better than those. It is also the journey that the great French ethnologist, who died in 2009 aged 100 years, took inside himself. In that work, Lévi-Strauss relinquished the academic’s style and succeeded in creating a strikingly poetic language. Listening to the words he wrote in 1955 will help us understand his greatness and appreciate even his bitter forecasts, which have often come true.
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Toni Servillo is a multi-award winning actor and director who has brought works of classical and contemporary authors to the stage in Italy and in the world. They include: Rasoi (1991) by Enzo Moscato, Sabato, domenica e lunedì (2002) and Le voci di dentro (2013) by Eduardo De Filippo, Trilogia della villeggiatura (2007) by Carlo Goldoni and Elvira from the lectures of Louis Jouvet (2016). He has staged works by Mozart, Cimarosa, Mussorgsky, Strauss, Beethoven and Rossini in Europe’s most important opera houses. He has been playing leading roles in films since 1992 for Mario Martone (Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician, Rehearsals for War, We Believed), Paolo Sorrentino (One Man Up, The Consequences of Love, Il divo, The Great Beauty), Andrea Molaioli (The Girl by the Lake, The Jewel), Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah), Stefano Incerti (Gorbaciof), Roberto Andò (Long Live Freedom, The Confessions) and Francesco Amato (Lasciati andare). With Gianfranco Capitta he has written Interpretazione e creatività (Laterza, 2008).
Toni Servillo & i Dialoghi
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