2024 Programme
Event #17
Saturday 31 August, 07.00 pm
Matteotti square1 - euro 4.50
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Matteo Nucci
The gratitude of friends
The mark of great lost friendships is often ingratitude. It is said that Aristotle, in response to criticisms about his lack of ideal gratitude towards Plato, argued: the teacher is a friend, but the truth is an even greater friend. Indeed, it is often the absence of grace that becomes the pivot around which friendship changes, ends, or is reborn. Achilles is not sufficiently grateful to Patroclus when he withdraws into a rage that borders on resentment. And Patroclus does not show gratitude towards Achilles and his advice, because he is not ready to follow it. Yet, this lack of grace deepens the bond between the two friends, just as it ultimately tells us the story of the most beautiful dream that literature has ever given us: the dream of Achilles.
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Matteo Nucci was born in Rome in 1970. He has published several novels with Ponte alle Grazie, including "Sono comuni le cose degli amici" (2009, finalist for the Premio Strega), "Il toro non sbaglia mai" (2011), "È giusto obbedire alla notte" (2017, finalist for the Premio Strega), and the narrative essay "L’abisso di Eros" (2018). For Einaudi, he released a new edition of Plato's "Symposium" (2009) and the narrative essays "Le lacrime degli eroi" (2013), "Achille e Odisseo. La ferocia e l’inganno" (2020), and "Il grido di Pan" (2023). With HarperCollins, he published the novel "Sono difficili le cose belle" (2022) and "Sognava i leoni. L’eroismo fragile di Ernest Hemingway" (2024). His short stories have appeared in magazines, anthologies, and eBooks. He also collaborates with the magazines La Stampa and L’Espresso.
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