(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 04 - "The day I discovered, at 14, the surprising book Technique du coup d'Etat was a revelation to me. It was as if Malaparte had taken me for hand and took me to a plateau with him, from where it was possible to contemplate the events from above. To embrace them better, to scrutinize them and, sometimes, to express a bold judgment. As when he explained that in matters of coup d'état, brutality often it pays, while shy people, who don't dare to cross the Rubicon with decision, condemn themselves to failure. A disturbing but amazing observation. And it certainly helped me, as a dreaming teenager, to have a more lucid, thoughtful and adult outlook on the world ".
It is almost a letter of admiration and thanks from a writer to a master, the speech with which Amin Maalouf, the Franco-Lebanese author of The Shipwreck of Civilizations (ed. La nave di Teseo), collected the XXIII Curzio Prize on October 4 in Capri. Malaparte.
An author "bridge between two cultures" for a "difficult" edition in a time of pandemic, admits the coordinator of the Award, GabriellaBuontempo.
"We asked ourselves a lot - he says - whether to keep the appointment or limit ourselves to an online edition. It was a painful decision, but we wanted to give a strong signal of the presence of culture. Today there is great emotion, but also great joy because we have to move forward. ".
"Capri, the territory and our country in general need these manifestations of culture, which must be sustained and cultivated - adds Michele Pontecorvo Ricciardi, who with Ferrarelle brought the Award to the island for the ninth -. As a company, we have bet a lot. on corporate social responsibility in recent years. We have to do it even more today, with the country called to face such great difficulties ".
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