Per un pugno di libri
Season 22 Episode 4 - La giornata di uno scrutatore (di Italo Calvino)
In this episode of "Per Un Pugno di Libri", the "Vittorio Alfieri" classical high school in Turin and the "Giuseppe Mercalli" scientific high school in Naples discuss the novel "La giornata di uno scrutatore" by Italo Calvino. Published in 1963, the book is inspired by a personal experience of the writer, who, as a candidate for the PCI, found himself visiting the polling station set up at the Cottolengo in Turin. There, the sick were induced to vote for the then majority party: the Christian Democracy. In the novel, in fact, the young protagonist, Amerigo Ormea, is a communist pollster sent by the party to the Cottolengo precisely to monitor the consolidated habit of manipulating the votes of the sick. But faced with that "world" and that pain, and above all faced with the self-denial with which the patients are cared for by a nun, the Marxist faith of the protagonist enters into crisis.
Episodes in Season 22
Fahrenheit 451 (di Ray Bradbury)
50 min
Lessico famigliare (di Natalia Ginsburg)
52 min
Nudi e crudi (di Alan Bennett)
47 min
La giornata di uno scrutatore (di Italo Calvino)
51 min
Riti di morte (di Alicia Giménez Bartlett)
51 min
Memorie di Adriano (di Marguerite Yourcenar)
51 min
La svastica sul sole (di Philip K. Dick)
51 min
La peste (di Albert Camus)
51 min
L'Ispettore generale (di Nikolaj Gogol')
51 min
Foto di gruppo con signora (di Heinrich Böll)
51 min
Cuore di tenebra (di Joseph Conrad)
51 min
La tregua (di Primo Levi)
52 min
