Event #5

In the most ancient models of our literature, the Homeric poems, human movement is described meticulously, in detail, and fills every page: Era seducing Zeus; Achilles discovering the death of Patroclus; Elena sitting next to her found husband. Everything is movement in space. Yet the center of this movement – the protagonists’ soul – is veiled by a silence full of promises. The attitude of the most imitated American writer of the 20^th century, Ernest Hemingway, is identical. In his stylistic revolution, from short stories to his masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea, the movement of the protagonists is at the very center of his works, while the core of the story is omitted. Just like Homer, Hemingway knows that this is the only way that we, the readers, will be able to discover the strength hidden in the gestures that we repeat every day, without even realizing it.