DI DOVE SEI? DOVE VAI?

Non ho né Itaca né mare
né Calipso né Sirene
vago senza meta
nel deserto di mezzo.

WHERE ARE YOU FROM? WHERE ARE YOU GOING?
I have neither Ithaca nor sea
neither Calypso nor Syrens
I drift aimlessly
in the desert in-between.

Stefano Bellin, PhD, is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick (UK), where he is working on a project entitled Global Responsibility: Implicated Subjects and the Shame of the World and completing a monograph, The Shame of Being Human: A Philosophical Reading of Primo Levi. He has co-edited the special issue Rethinking the Human–Animal Relation: New Perspectives in Literature and Theory(Edinburgh University Press, 2019) with Florian Mussgnug and Kevin Inston, and is currently also co-editing a book and three journal issues. His publications cover several subjects, including Primo Levi, Kafka, Deleuze, Roncagliolo, international migration, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Website: https://warwick.academia.edu/StefanoBellin