From Italy... The tale of Milan - Milan City of Literature
From Italy... The story of Milan
A trip to the city in the company of the authors of novels, stories and reportages who have described Milan in their works, from the beginning of the twentieth century to today.
Following a subway map redesigned in a literary key, the Kasa dei libri takes us around the city with the exhibition "The tale of Milan".
Among the protagonists, in addition to the aforementioned Gadda, Buzzati and Testori, we find other lesser-known voices of prose narrators, collected and divided into five groups, representative of the twenty-year-olds of the last century (El nost Milan, Twenty years blacks, We made boom, Years of Lead, Bye bye Novecento), without neglecting those who describe the contemporary city.
In an evocative setup, between stained glass windows that recall Art Nouveau architecture and a cathedral of pencils almost two meters high, the exhibition also includes a large section of photographic books that help recall the images of the city narrated by the authors in their pages.
The exhibition will be open until June 16th, all information and opening times can be found on Kasa website.
Hangzhou Feel exhibition
An invitation to discover one of the Creative Cities of the UNESCO network linked to Milan, through its libraries, by a long relationship of collaboration and exchange.
City of great cultural and artisan tradition, Hangzhou, capital of the Chinese province of Zhejiang, is home to three sites recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site: the West Lake which, with its beauty, has over time given life to popular legends and myths and inspired artists and poets; the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu, defined as the "first city of China"; the Grand Canal, the oldest and longest artificial river in the world that connects Hangzhou to Beijing, the Yellow River with the Yangtze.
Since 2012, the city has entered the UNESCO network of Creative Cities, in the Crafts and Popular Art cluster, in recognition of its productive excellence, silk and tea first and foremost. But Hangzhou also has a literary tradition of great importance and has a public library and a city library system which contribute to the promotion of reading and the valorisation of local literary production, which includes legends and folklore stories which give us evocative images of the area and of its traditions.
Our Milan Library System has created, in collaboration with the Hangzhou public library, the exhibition "Hangzhou Feel”: you can find it on our website virtual section, while the Dergano-Bovisa library displays a selection of books, in the original language, on the traditions and folklore of the city.
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