A century of culture: interview with Julia Dobrovolskaja

Julia Dobrovolskaja remembers some fundamental moments of her professional life, talking about the beginning and the development of her career as a translator and the elaboration of her own methodology. She recollects with coolness the impressive network of relations built with the Italian literary world since the '60s. With sudden geographical and temporal deviations, the great linguists, lexicographer and translator talks about her confrontation with the mentor Vladimir Propp, the longstanding friendship with Lilija Brik, the controversial relation with Gianni Rodari, the dialogue with Alberto Moravia, the arrival in Italy and her encounter with the scholars of Russian culture in the Italian academia in the '80. An adventurous and engaging journey that let us discover an extraordinary protagonist of the Russian and Italian culture on the threshold of her 100th birthday.