The Feeling of Time: Visconti-Dostoevsky-Mann

Going beyond the theme of adaptation, in this meeting we enter into the heart of another question: how a great master of Italian cinema used literary sources to talk about his (historical) time and his dimension as an individual and artist in the second half of the 20th century. We therefore analyse two very different films by Luchino Visconti: Le notti bianche (1957) from Fedor Dostoevsky and Death in Venice (1970) from Thomas Mann. In the texts of the works of these two great writers, whom he feels are very close to him, Visconti finds the ‘cinematic form’ to reflect on (his) Time.

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