Letterature 2025 “Returns”

Return is one of the oldest and deepest themes in literature. A topos that is a metaphor for life itself and finds intertwined with travel, nostalgia, and the search for self.

Homer’s Odyssey is the archetypal model of this: where Odysseus’ long wanderings are not just a physical return to Ithaca, but a journey of inner transformation, a journey that changes him, reveals him to himself and prepares him to reclaim his identity. In every age, return continues to be a powerful metaphor for the human condition: the desire to return home is intertwined with the knowledge that never, no return, can be identical to the departure.

Literatures 2025 “Returns” is Rome International Festival – Previews is promoted by the Department of Culture of Roma Capitale, curated by the Department of Cultural Activities with the organizational coordination of Zètema Progetto Cultura. It will take place in Rome on several dates and can also be followed online. To learn more you can go to the official website by clicking HERE

The appointments, scheduled from March 25 to July 1, will take place in different spaces in the city: the Auditorium Parco della Musica, the Casa del Jazz, the Elsa Morante Theater and Monte Ciocci Park, a beautiful view of the city in front of St. Peter’s Basilica. A series of
widespread meetings that expand and enrich the most important Capitoline literary event now in its 24th edition. New for the 2025 edition is the distribution of the meetings in different places in the city before arriving at the summer evenings that will always take place in the majestic setting of the Palatine Stadium and that this year will take place on the dates of July 8-9-11-13-15 and 16.

Free admission subject to availability.
Reservations recommended at 060608 and valid within 10 minutes of the start time of the event.
After the deadline, priority in admission is given to the waiting line.