AUTODIFESA DI CAINO / THE SELF-DEFENSE OF CAIN

The monologue Andrea Camilleri had prepared for his return to the theater. A profound reflection on Good and Evil that calls readers to pronounce the verdict.
«Because I am a storyteller. After all, I have never been anything else. In Jewish tradition, and to some extent in Muslim tradition, there are a myriad of counter-stories that tell us a Cain very different from the one in the Bible. We have worked on these». Andrea Camilleri offers a version of Cain far from the usual one. He is perhaps a Cain inventor of choice, who goes beyond repentance by becoming aware that “without evil good would not exist”. Like the previous Conversation about Tiresias, this monologue was also to be performed by Camilleri in the theater. The date was for July 15, 2019 at Terme di Caracalla. But the great writer left the stage too soon.