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2016 Programme

Event #20

Matteo Nucci, Valentina Carnelutti

The space of absence: Patroclus and Andromache

With Patroclus and Andromache, the domain of the End breaks onto the scene of the Iliad. The sweetest of the Homeric heroes, Patroclus “the divine”, takes up the arms of his partner Achilles and moves forth towards his death. As he is slain by Hector, he manages to ensure his foe that he too shall soon perish at the hand of Achilles. Meanwhile, within the chambers of the fortress of Troy, “fair-armed” Andromache draws a bath for her beloved husband Hector, whom she shall never see again. Can death be conquered? In this Hector and Achilles are the same: only glory, “which future days may hear of”, can save us. Yet Patroclus chases no literary glory. Nor may Andromache derive from it any reparation. They do not delude themselves. In Hades we are but smoke. The wound of death is never healed. The space of death is the space of absence. Reading by Valentina Carnelutti.

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Valentina Carnelutti

actress and author, nominated this year for the Nastro d’Argento, has been directed by M. T. Giordana (La meglio gioventù), T. Angelopoulos (La polvere del tempo), P. Virzì (Tutta la vita davanti, La pazza gioia), C. Maselli (Le ombre rosse), A. Orlando (Sfiorarsi) and many others. She is the author of  Sfiorarsi (A. Orlando) and of the film ReCuiem which she also directed. She also directed the documentary Melkam Zena in Ethiopia and the videoclip Le conseguenze dell’ingenuità.

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Matteo Nucci was born in Rome in 1970. With Ponte alle Grazie Publishers he published the novels  Sono comuni le cose degli amici (2009, shortlisted at Strega Award), Il toro non sbaglia mai (2011), È giusto obbedire alla notte (2017, shortlisted at Strega Award) and the narrative-essay L’abisso di Eros (2018). He curated the new edition of Plato’s Symposium (Einaudi, 2009) and the narrative-essays Le lacrime degli eroi (Einaudi, 2013), Achille e Odisseo. La ferocia e l’inganno (Einaudi, 2020), Il grido di Pan (Einaudi, 2023). With HarperCollins he published the novel Sono difficili le cose belle (2022). His short stories were published in magazines, anthologies and eBooks. He collaborates with Venerdì di Repubblica, Specchio by La Stampa and l’Espresso.


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