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Event #5

Friday 2 September, 11.00 pm

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Matteo Nucci

Movement and space: Homer and Hemingway

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 20th 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.


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Matteo Nucci is author of novels, short stories, reportages and essays. He published the novels Sono comuni le cose degli amici (Ponte alle Grazie, 2009) and È giusto obbedire alla notte (Ponte alle Grazie, 2017) both finalist at Premio Strega, together with the novel-essay Il toro non sbaglia mai (Ponte alle Grazie, 2011) and L’abisso di Eros (Ponte alle Grazie, 2018). He translated the translation of Plato’s Symposium (Einaudi, 2009) and the narrative essays Le lacrime degli eroi (Einaudi, 2013) and Achille e Odisseo. La ferocia e l’inganno (Einaudi, 2020). His short stories have been published in collections and magazines, and his reportages on Il Venerdì di Repubblica and L’Espresso and online on minima et moralia. He is editor of a taurine culture website: www.uominietori.it. In September his latest novel Sono difficili le cose belle will be published by HarperCollins.


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