Friday, December 1, 2017 – Luis Sepúlveda participated in the Molte Fedi sotto lo stesso cielo festival with his talk “The End of the Story” in dialogue with university professor Marco Marzano.
The evening, promoted by ACLI Bergamo with the support of Fondazione Pesenti, took place at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Città Alta.
“I was going to an appointment I had neither sought nor wanted, and I was going because you cannot escape your own shadow… the shadow of what we have done and who we have been haunts us.” In The End of the Story, Sepúlveda’s latest novel, the appointment is that of the protagonist, a supporter first of Allende, then a survivor of the dictatorship who withdrew to Patagonia and is called back, but also of spies from the Russian secret services, the last Cossacks who landed in Pinochet’s Chile, and figures from Nazi Germany now fugitives. A geopolitics of yesterday and today that crosses the twentieth century from Europe to Chile and summons us, from elsewhere that is not really elsewhere, to account…
Luis Sepúlveda, born in Chile in 1949, currently lives in Asturias, Spain, after spending time in various South American countries where he expressed strong political and social commitment, and later in Europe. He has received numerous literary honors, including an honorary doctorate in Letters from the University of Urbino, the Chiara Prize for lifetime achievement, and the Hemingway Prize for Literature in 2016. Among his well-known and beloved works are: The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (1989), Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly (1996), and The End of the Story (2017).
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