La natura è innocente

Two men. Two extraordinary lives that couldn’t be more different and distant, told by the unique voice of a Strega Prize winner: the true stories of Filippo and Ruggero, the former a matricide and the latter an ex-pornography actor who first became a princess and then a university professor. They are the mirror that Walter Siti uses to reflect on himself, the watermark through which he bares witness to his own contradictions and those of all of us. Among the pages of this novel of truth, we end up discovering ourselves as immoral beings, indeed amoral, and we hold off our judgment on what is right and wrong. Because we can do nothing but surrender to the indifference of a Nature that is devoid of freedom, and simply consenting to laws that are inaccessible to us.

“The heart of Walter Siti’s work is right here, in the heartrending relationship between the voice that narrates and the life it is narrating.” – Emanuele Trevi

“Siti knows how to tell the secret motivations that move the world, the confusion on which every idea about order is based.” – Marco Lodoli, “La Repubblica”