His paper, Please Do Not Forget Eugenio Montale!, will be part of the "Populism, Nationalism and Right-Leaning Parties in Europe" panel
Abstract of Please Do Not Forget Eugenio Montale!
Eugenio Montale sits as a quiet memory in Europe today. Time is now to reexamine Eugenio Montale’s art, journalism and poetry. While for most of his career in Italy, Eugenio Montale was an active journalist, until the Fascists came to power. The Fascists demanded he write what they wanted, whether true or false or for societies actually needs. He would not comprise his journalism with lies, resulting in his firing and having no job in Italian journalism. In some ways this may have been a blessing to Eugenio Montale and all. He turned to his lifelong interests of art and poetry. He retreated from current affairs and journalism to quietly focus himself to writing his poetry and drawing his landscapes and portraits in seclusion mostly.
His poetry become meaningful and prolific to the world for a time. His art remains almost completely hidden behind his poetry and his journalism forgotten. In Italian American neighborhoods like New York City today and elsewhere in America, Italian passport holders seldom recognize or even know the name, Eugenio Montale, or his place to stand against the winds of Fascism long ago.
Please do not forget Eugenio Montale, the 1976 winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, for his brilliant poetry and much more. In the new publication, Melinda Camber Porter in Conversation with Eugenio Montale in Milan in 1976 (Blake Press), we are able to look back at our actions in the past and will we learn to apply them in politics today. Great insight is present for all to see in Eugenio Montale’s Nobel Prize Lecture in 1976, presented in both English and Italian in this new book, along with his conversation with Melinda Camber Porter on art, journalism, politics, poetry and Society.
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