Levi, Calvino, Fruttero & Lucentini. 2+2 scrittori prima del Big Bang @ OGR Talks
with Domenico Scarpa

An event by OGR Torino, part of the Public Program of the exhibitions ELECTRIC DREAMS and WE FELT A STAR DYING.

Friday 8 May 2026 | 6.30 PM
Area Storica com’era com’è | OGR Torino

Free admission
Reservations available from 23 April at ogrtorino.it
Booking allows the purchase of exhibition tickets at a reduced price.

OGR Torino presents a new OGR Talks event: Levi, Calvino, Fruttero & Lucentini. 2+2 writers before the Big Bang, with Domenico Scarpa, on Friday 8 May 2026 at 6.30 PM in the Area Storica com’era com’è.

Primo Levi designing the cover of one of his own books – three owls set against blue and light-blue backgrounds – using a Macintosh computer in the autumn of 1984.

Italo Calvino writing science fiction “in reverse,” narrating the infinitesimal instant of the Big Bang on the very day astrophysicists announce its experimental confirmation.

Fruttero & Lucentini, who instead write full-fledged science fiction – under a pseudonym – and introduce it to Italy under the F&L label for more than twenty years.

Two “twin” writers (Levi and Calvino) and two workshop partners (Fruttero & Lucentini) are the protagonists of Domenico Scarpa’s “object-based narrative.” (What is an object-based narrative? When the time comes, you will discover it, hands on.)
Four authors for an event dedicated to the cosmic and cybernetic literature of the pioneers who envisioned it in Italy.

DOMENICO SCARPA
He is the literary consultant of the International Center for Primo Levi Studies in Turin. On Levi and about Levi he has edited volumes, editorial series, staged readings, theatre cycles, documentaries and exhibitions. In 2022 he published Bibliografia di Primo Levi ovvero Il primo Atlante with Einaudi, for whose Tascabili series he is editing the critical apparatus for a uniform edition of Levi’s works. In 2023 Hoepli published Calvino fa la conchiglia. La costruzione di uno scrittore. His 2010 collection of essays Storie avventurose di libri necessari was published by Gaffi. He has edited works by Antelme, Bassani, Berto, Breton, Calvino, Gadda, Garboli, Lucentini, Parise, Rea, Sciascia, Soldati and Stevenson for various publishers. In 2019 he edited the Opere di bottega of Fruttero & Lucentini for Mondadori’s Meridiani series. For Einaudi he edits the works of Natalia Ginzburg, and for Sellerio those of Graham Greene.