The transalpine writer Paolo Nori, who was to give a course on the famous Russian author Dostoyevsky, denounced an attempt at censorship by the University of Milano Bicocca. The management asked him to postpone his lessons in view of the news. The university says it’s a misunderstanding, but Nori now refuses to go there.
He spoke in an Instagram video where he appears on the verge of tears, his voice broken by emotion. On Tuesday March 1, the Italian writer Paolo Nori denounced what he considers to be an attempt at censorship. Indeed, the Milano Bicocca University, where he was to hold a course on Dostoyevsky, communicated to him by e-mail the postponement of his lessons for “avoid any form of controversy in this moment of great tension”.
A decision deemed incomprehensible by the person concerned, who reacted with very harsh words:
In Italy today, being a Russian is considered a fault. And apparently even to be a deceased Russian, who moreover was sentenced to death in 1849 for reading a forbidden thing. What is happening in Ukraine is a horrible thing that makes me want to cry, but these reactions are ridiculous. When I read that email from college, I mightn’t believe it.”
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