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The book consists of two very important texts, essentially farewell texts to people, written as theatrical monologues. Andrea Camilleri wrote them in 2018 with the intention of performing them himself on stage. The Discussion on Tiresias was presented at the ancient Greek theater of Syracuse in June 2018, with the now-blind Andrea Camilleri himself in the role of the blind seer. Tiresias begins to narrate his life, one of his seven lives, wandering through the centuries, commenting on the different versions of how he became blind, as well as the condition of his blindness and his prophetic ability, as seen by poets, painters, philosophers and composers, from Homer and Hesiod, Sophocles and Ovid to Milton, Eliot, Virginia Woolf and Pasolini.
In his Counterpoint, the fratricide Cain decides to defend himself and prove that he has been wrongly remembered as evil in history. Camilleri was to present this text again the following summer at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, had death not come for him first, in July 2019.
Zeus gave me the opportunity to live seven lives and this is one of the seven. I cannot tell you which. Surely some of you in previous years must have watched my character being performed here on this stage, but those were actors. Today I have come in person, because I want to tell you what has happened to me through the centuries and try to put a full stop to my passage from person to character. I was born in Thebes…
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- Author
- Andrea Camilleri
- Publisher
- Patakis
- Publishers
- Patakis
- Type
- Prose
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 112
- Release Date
- 10/2025
- Publication Date
- 2025
- Dimensions
- 12x17 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9786180704396
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- Century
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