2023 Programme
Event #28
Sunday 3 September, 07.00 pm
piazza Matteotti1 - euro 4,50
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Matteo Nucci
A novelist’s wonder: Gabriel García Márquez
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice”. Everybody has heard at least once the opening sentence of One Hundred Years of Solitude, one of the most widely read novels of all time. García Márquez evades the rules of suspense and spoiler – popular concepts in the literature debate of our times – and anticipates crucial details to the reader. The only word that interests the novelist is in fact “wonder”. And the element which triggers wonder has nothing to do with surprise. Nor with the magic that has often been attributed to this book, although the author denies it. Yet there is another form of magic transpiring between the pages of this unforgettable novel: that of a writer in a state of grace able to capture the reader and take him to another dimension.
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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