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On Les Inséparables, Simone de Beauvoir’s Unpublished Novel

Join professor and publisher Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir along with author and New Yorker  staff writer Judith Thurman and as they discuss Les Inséparables, a novel by Simone de Beauvoir written in 1954 and released for the first time this fall. In her memoir Force of Circumstance, de Beauvoir mentioned that she gave the manuscript of Les Inséparables to…

Mystery and Truth of “Pasolini’s Bodies and Places”

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

Panelists: Ara Merjian (NYU) Ann Goldstein (The New Yorker) Breixo Viejo (Columbia University) Benedikt Reichenbach (editor, English edition of Pasolini's Bodies and Places) In 1980 in Rome, two film critics - Michele Mancini and Giuseppe Perrella - produced an elaborate, 600-page volume of images taken from Pasolini’s films and organized into an extensive taxonomy of “bodies” and “places”: Pier Paolo Pasolini: Corpi e luoghi. Reviews of…