Who wrote 'The Republic' ?

Like all the dialogues of Plato, LaRepública is a set of ideas, glimpses, suggestions, inventions on a great variety of subjects, exposed without any concern for a linear order or a desire to conclude.

It is, above all, as its literary genre indicates, a conversation, that is, a mixture of more or less intelligent voices, more or less informed, more or less conclusive.

When I read it for the first time, in my adolescence, I was disillusioned by his lack of haughtiness and arrogance : encouraged by the prestige that my professors attributed to him, I expected to find an arid, declamatory, forceful text.

The Republic turned out to be just the opposite : a pleasant book, sometimes humorous, convivial, passionate, made of a sway of observations, half - finished ideas, verbal games less worthy of oratory than of the conversation between friends.

Actually, that was what The Republic looked like : one of those endless evenings in which my friends and I, with the intellectual and physical energy that only exists at sixteen or seventeen, we discussed about the meaning of the world, we confessed our fears and hopes, and we tried to solve the great political and metaphysical problems of the universe until the dream overcame us and we fell asleep on the carpet.