2023 Programme
Event #16
Saturday 2 September, 07.00 pm
piazza Matteotti1 - euro 4,50
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Matteo Nucci
A poet’s wonder: Omer
According to established tradition, the oldest poem in our literary tradition is the Iliad. Its power – for readers of all ages – lies in the fifty-one days narrated, a small fragment cut out of the ten-year siege of Troy. A fragment that is almost accidental and which, nonetheless, encourages us to know everything, especially what we are not told, what we know from the beginning and what, as we read, will never happen: Achilles' death. It is around the poem's protagonist, his friend Patroclus, and his enemy Hector that the effort of the epic poets revolves – convinced that only the listener, or the reader, can create the wonder of poetry. And that is why they let us find our own way to dream the epilogue we already think we know.
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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