the first European festival on creativity

2017 Programme

Event #37

Matteo Nucci, Valentina Carnelutti

The net of Eros. Reconquering

The passage through the erotic net is what the Greeks called poros, that is, the ford, the channel, the expedient, the resource. Sailing across the sea again, Helen and Menelaus finally find peace in the home they once had lost, reuniting in a romance that seems to be fueled by the desires of reason. It’s within an eros made of words and persuasion that Hera find Zeus after his uncountable betrayals. The expedient, the passage for escaping the net or freeing it and bringing it to life is the mark of perfect reunion. Poros is father to Eros, according to a myth told by Plato. And indeed, the great philosopher held that it is only when eros has travelled the entire body, from sensual desires to those glorious and filled with rage, eros itself and the soul in which it flows are finally capable of liberating their immense cognitive power.

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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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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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