Gianni Biondillo’s novel “Quello che noi non siamo” (Engl: What we are not), which won an important Milanese literary prize, the Premio Bagutta, is set in Milan during the years of early fascism.
Gianni Biondillo’s polyphonic narrative tells of the conflicts surrounding an architecture that was sympathetic to the new rulers and discusses the current issue of the political instrumentalization of art and the political orientation of the country as a whole.

Moderation: Antonella Lavagno

Milan is part of the UNESCO Cities of Literature network.
In cooperation with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Amburgo, the Deutsch-Italienische Gesellschaft Bremen and the Gerhard Marcks-Haus