Saturday 24 May 2025, at 6.30 p.m., at the Rogers Station, Riva Grumula 14, Trieste, there will be the Presentation of Caterina Diotto's book "Mythos, or the relationship between novel and truth. For a feminist theory of the novel in dialogue with György Lukács and Walter Benjamin'.

After the first two meetings of "SpringBookS. Dialogues of literary theory and cultural criticism", which hosted Laurent Feneyrou - in dialogue with Elvio Guagnini on the Triestiana publishing house - and Marco Fontana - for the presentation of his recent book Auerbach versus Bachtin. Il serio, il comico e la teoria del romanzo (Editpress, 2025) -, the review will continue on 24 May with Caterina Diotto, author of the book "Mythos, o del rapporto tra romanzo e verità. Per una teoria femminista del romanzo in dialogo con György Lukács e Walter Benjamin", published by Mimesis in December 2024. Divided into two parts, the essay investigates the relationship between the novel and truth, first analysing the historical-philosophical characteristics of the genre and defining the concept of truth itself, then comparing the opposing positions held in this regard by György Lukács and Walter Benjamin, recalling in the course of the analysis a number of important feminist theories - from Sandra Harding's Standpoint Theory to the ‘feminine realism’ developed by the Thought of Sexual Difference of the Women's Philosophical Community Diotima, via the concept of intersectionality formulated by Kimberlé Crenshaw.

Caterina Diotto has a PhD in philosophy and is currently an adjunct lecturer at the University of Trieste. Her interests focus on the intertwining of aesthetics and politics, feminism and ecology, in particular from the theory of narration and the theory of the novel. Since 2017, she has been a member of the Women's Philosophical Community Diotima in Verona.

Moderating the meeting will be Iwan Paolini, Tommaso Dal Monte and Francesca D'Alessio, PhD and PhD student in Linguistic and Literary Studies at the Universities of Udine and Trieste.

"SpringBookS. Dialogues of literary theory and cultural criticism" is a series of events curated by Sergia Adamo, Francesca D'Alessio, Tommaso Dal Monte and Iwan Paolini. The review will continue with further meetings until 23 June. The guests of the initiative will discuss their publishing activities, publications and research works, all works that compare the present with the thought of some of the leading names of the 20th century literary and cultural scene, from Auerbach to Haraway, from Pasolini to Lonzi.