{"id":10976,"date":"2026-02-12T11:23:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/?p=10976&lang=en"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:32:25","slug":"guest-lecture-the-reinvention-of-central-europe-as-mitteleuropa-in-post-fascist-italy-through-book-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/?p=10970","title":{"rendered":"Guest lecture \u2013 The Reinvention of Central Europe as \u201eMitteleuropa\u201c in Post-Fascist Italy through Book Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Davide Gnoato<\/strong>
\n(Universit\u00e4t Wien)<\/p>\n

18 March 2026 (Wednesday) at 14:00 CET<\/strong>
\nInstitute of World Literature SAS + online<\/p>\n

Join Zoom Meeting:
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\nMeeting ID: 893 2796 4257
\nPasscode: 334610
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In the second post-war period, a discussion developed in Italy, initially within Italian German studies and gradually spreading to other disciplines, about so-called \u201cCentral European\u201d culture. Early examples of this are not just the works of Ladislao Mittner and Claudio Magris but in particular the literary reception by the Milanese publishing house Adelphi (est. 1962), which made much \u201cMitteleuropean\u201d literature, as they called it, accessible to a wide audience. Using Adelphi’s \u201cMitteleuropean\u201d book catalogue and the theoretical discourse of that time, I would like to take a closer look at the mediation and resemantisation of \u201cMitteleuropa\u201d in Italy as a category of imagination. I draw on the Habsburg myth (Magris), the selection-philosophy of \u201csingular books\u201d (\u201clibri unici\u201d, Bazlen), the concepts of places of memory (Nora) and the memory of Central Europe (Cs\u00e1ky) to explain the establishment of a world projection as a publishing subject and, based on Adelphi’s catalogue classification, \u2018Central European literature\u2019 as a branch on its own. I would also like to consider the mythical potential of \u201cMitteleuropa\u201d as a lost or submerged (\u201cversunken\u201d) world, as well as the international resonance of this discourse before (with Kundera and Mi\u0142osz, among others) and after 1990. I also make use of the blurbs of various editions of Adelphi to sketch a \u201cCentral European mood\u201d which, according to my hypothesis, should not only appeal to a new \u201cwild\u201d (cft. Wagenbach) readership, but also have shaped a lasting idea of an imaginary Central European geography in Italy.<\/p>\n

Davide Gnoato<\/strong> is a doctoral student in Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna. He is a recipient of the Marietta Blau Scholarship of the OeAD (Austria) and a former Junior Fellow at the ifk, Vienna (2023\u20132025). He has been recently a special research student at the University Ca‘ Foscari of Venice and the University of Tokyo. His research focuses on literary transfer and reception, Central Europe, modernity, decadence, dandyism, and pop culture in music and literature, with a particular interest in Japanese music and reception of Western pop phenomena. He is currently completing his dissertation, \u201cThe Adelphi Phenomenon: The Philosophy of the Singular Book and the Reception of \u2018Mitteleuropa\u2019 Literature in Italy\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Davide Gnoato (Universit\u00e4t Wien) 18 March 2026 (Wednesday) at 14:00 CET Institute of World Literature SAS + online Join Zoom Meeting: https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/89327964257?pwd=k9Fent8Yi6bZRPKDh9yru7u0SODYFB.1 Meeting ID: 893 2796 4257 Passcode: 334610 In the second post-war period, a discussion developed in Italy, initially within Italian German studies and gradually spreading to other disciplines, about so-called \u201cCentral European\u201d culture. … Pokra\u010dova\u0165 na Guest lecture \u2013 The Reinvention of Central Europe as \u201eMitteleuropa\u201c in Post-Fascist Italy through Book Publishing<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pozvanky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10976"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11023,"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976\/revisions\/11023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}