In the end, the writer Paolo Nori dissolved the reservation: he will not go to do the course on Fëdor M. Dostoevskij at the Bicocca University of Milan which should have started “free and open to all” next Wednesday 9 March. He announced it with a post on his blog about him and, immediately after, tweeted: «The Vice-Rector of Bicocca Casiraghi – wrote the author of“ Sanguina Ancora. The Incredible Life of Fëdor M. Dostoevskij ”- tells the reasons why they suspended my course. To “restructure the course and broaden the message to open students’ minds. Adding some Ukrainian authors to Dostoevsky ”. I don’t share this idea that if you talk about a Russian author you must also talk about a Ukrainian author, but everyone has their own ideas. If they think so, they do well ». And he added: “Unfortunately, I do not know Ukrainian authors, so I will free them from the commitment they have taken and the course I should have done in Bicocca will do it elsewhere (I thank all those who have offered themselves, I answer within a few days) “.
In the afternoon Nori at the Ansa had said that she had not yet decided whether «I’m going there or not. I have to think. It’s not like they call me and I’m running. I don’t know if I want to go to a university that has imagined that Dostoevsky is something that generates tension. I think about it and then answer calmly. I have other things to do now ».
Bicocca University cancels Paolo Nori’s course on Dostoevsky. The writer in tears: “It is censorship”. Then the turnaround of the university
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Speaking to “La Stampa” the rector Giovanna Iannantuoni had instead explained that “she did not know who had written the email to Nori, but it certainly wasn’t us” and she too had assured, as already said to “Radiopopolare” by the Vice Rector Casiraghi, that «the course would be extended with Ukrainian writers». Now Nori makes it known that the scheduled lessons will not see him as the protagonist.
Course on Dostoevsky canceled at Bicocca, the rector: “We are inclusive, I don’t know who sent the email to Professor Nori. The Russians? Let’s also include the Ukrainians “
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