Stefania Heim - "Mr. Dudron" - Jennifer Scappettone
Stefania Heim (trans.) will discuss Mr. Dudron, by Giorgio de Chirico. She will be joined in conversation by Jennifer Scappettone. A Q&A and signing will follow.
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About the Book
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978), renowned as a painter and founder of the metaphysical school of painting, was also a prolific writer. The painter's unpublished novel, Mr. Dudron, is an account of the misadventures of his autobiographical hero—a painter who wanders, dreams, remembers, frets, polemicizes, and tells stories. Translated from Italian for the first time into English by award-winning translator Stefania Heim.
About the Translator
Stefania Heim is a poet, translator, scholar, and educator. Her translations of metaphysical artist Giorgio de Chirico's writings include the volume of his Italian poems, Geometry of Shadows (A Public Space Books, 2019) and his posthumous novel, Mr. Dudron (A Public Space Books, 2024) for which she received an NEA Translation Fellowship. Author of the poetry collections Hour Book and A Table That Goes On for Miles, and co-founder with Jennifer Kronovet of the journal Circumference: Poetry in Translation, Stefania works as an associate professor of literature at Western Washington University.
About the Interlocutor
Jennifer Scappettone is a professor of English, Creative Writing, and Romance Languages and Literatures and Faculty Affiliate of Gender and Sexuality Studies and of the Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice(Columbia University Press, 2014), and of the forthcoming Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism (Columbia University Press, 2025). Scappettone’s translations of the poet-refugee from Fascist Italy Amelia Rosselli were collected in Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli (University of Chicago Press, 2012); and she founded PennSound|Italiana. Her poetry has been translated and engaged by critics globally, and her most recent full-length collection is The Republic of Exit 43 (Atelos, 2016).
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