Lo stronzo geniale. Guida semiseria ai Nino Sarratore

What remains of a well-told story is almost never the hero, but more often that particular character who corresponds to the type you'd prefer to avoid in real life, but who you already know you've encountered. Nino Sarratore from "My Brilliant Friend" is the perfect example. The prototype of the attentive man with a ready ideal, he presents himself as intelligent, charming, and perfectly capable of masquerading as a "good guy" even if he isn't one by a toenail. Ambiguous, he first convinces us that the darkness that surrounds him is our own trouble, and then he confuses us, unaware of the emotional scar he's left in his countless "friends." Readers around the world have come to know him thanks to Elena Ferrante's books and the successful television series based on them. We've all met a Nino Sarratore, and like Lila and Lenù, we've been drawn to him, loved him, and even, to a certain extent, considered forgiving him. This little book, between irony and truth, explores literature and pop culture to help the reader recognize the Sarratore of the moment, perfect on paper, but punctually a disaster in real life.