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Martin Eden (di Jack London)

49 min

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Natural Histories (by Primo Levi)

55 min

Waiting for Godot (by Samuel Beckett)

50 min

The Gambler (by Fyodor Dostoevsky)

50 min

Frankenstein (di Mary Shelley)

50 min

Poirot at Styles Court (by Agatha Christie)

48 min

The Life Ahead (by Romain Gary)

50 min

Reunion (by Fred Uhlman)

55 min

For a Handful of Books

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Natural Histories (by Primo Levi)

Season 23 · Episode 2 · Jan 25, 2020

The episode pits the "Guglielmo Marconi" Scientific High School of Carrara against the "Giuseppe Garibaldi" Classical High School of Castrovillari (CS). To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, the classes were asked to read "Natural Histories" by the Turin writer and chemist Primo Levi. They are 15 scientific and science fiction stories published by Einaudi in 1966. Pages in which, not infrequently, the writer uses the register of irony and satire to tell us about a future increasingly conditioned by technological progress, by disturbing and utopian experiments in which extraordinary and unpredictable machines operate. Levi himself explains the reason for these stories: "I wrote them... trying to tell an intuition that is not rare today: the perception of a flaw in the world we live in, of a small or large flaw, of 'a defect of form' that nullifies one or another aspect of our civilization or our moral universe".

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For a Handful of Books

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199855m9.0

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Natural Histories (by Primo Levi)

Season 23 · Episode 2 · Jan 25, 2020

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