Coexistence and literature: a question of homeland?

The difficulty of living together, hate and revenge have always been central themes in literature since the times the art began. These subjects are also present in Fernando Aramburu’s novel Homeland and his stories in Dopo le fiamme. Here, the power of great literature uses a unique style to tell the story of a community where fanaticism and common sense live together, terrorists and normal people, violence and sharing. A world intertwining love and hate, heroism and cowardice, wounded feelings and unexpressed pain.

An encounter with one of the most popular authors of recent years, reflecting on writing as a form of memory against the oblivion, in an age marked by many different terrors, when it is complicated to look back and come to terms with the past. Examining the shadows of life, the grey areas between good and evil, between justice and terror, which only literature can recount. This can also help us to avoid repeating the same mistakes and to learn the rules of coexistence.