The Tragedy of Big Brother

Fabio Fazio, presnter of the talk show Che tempo che fa, interviewing Eduardo Sanguineti, one of Italy's leading poets, asked the sixty-million dollar question: Are reality-shows, like Big Brother, the modern translation of tragedy?

Sanguineti, scarcely missing a beat - and without paying much attention to the fact that Che Tempo Che Fa is itself an endemol production - replied: Yes, in aristotelian terms, let's say if the task of tragedy is to provoke terror and compassion, then definitely...

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