“L’infanzia di Gesù” (Einaudi, 2013) di J.M. Coetzee, è il primo di una trilogia di romanzi (seguito da “I giorni di scuola di Gesù” e “La morte di Gesù”) che vedono impegnata la “grande” penna di Coetzee nel racconto del percorso di formazione di un bambino che potrebbe essere un Gesù nei tempi moderni, ma che, soprattutto, è un bambino che cerca di comprendere il … Continua a leggere J.M. Coetzee: L’infanzia di Gesù
Every day I have a new malaise, my body has really become very fragile. I don’t know how it will end, but I know that I will not extinguish my smile and that when I will die it will be in the smile and with the smile inside.I love everything I have and I have had; I do not deny anything of what I have … Continua a leggere When Pain Changes in Sweet Courage
Let’s give others and give ourselves a smile. All this discontent that turns into anger is not the solution.Dissatisfied and angry people pour out their discontent everywhere. It is an anger that is always heterodirect but which, probably, is nothing but anger towards themselves, an unmentionable and atrocious anger, even more atrocious precisely because it cannot be named: anger for our own inconclusiveness.It is a … Continua a leggere Let’s Give a Smile
These days I have realized how impossible is not to be surrounded by a veil of melancholy, but it is not bad, melancholy is not bad.In fact, melancholy and sadness are not the same thing. Sadness carries within it the feeling of the inevitable, melancholy is the search for a solution to the inevitable.Melancholy, while showing itself with physical signs of tiredness and disorientation, lights … Continua a leggere Melancholy
Il romanzo di Colson Whitehead “La ferrovia sotterranea” (Sur, 2017), ha ricevuto numerosi premi (Premio Pulitzer, il National Book Award , il Premio Arthur C. Clarke e la Medaglia Andrew Carnegie per l’eccellenza nella narrativa), tutti ampiamente meritati sia per lo stile dell’autore che per la storia in sé. Da questo romanzo è stata tratta anche una serie televisiva.L’ambientazione del romanzo è l’America della metà … Continua a leggere Colson Whitehead: La ferrovia sotterranea
The terrible storm seems to have been the outburst of an angry sky against human ignorance. How small we are! And how helpless, despite the confused ranting of our presumption. After the storm, only you, moon, can reconcile the extremes in the strong embrace of your smile. La terribile tempesta sembra essere stata lo sfogo di un cielo arrabbiato contro l’umana insipienza. Quanto piccoli siamo! … Continua a leggere The Tempest
I become more and more aware of the diversity of the dimension in which I live compared to that in which others live. For me, everything that happens is as if it were the last time (without any pessimism, indeed, but in the awareness of having to live intensely every moment more, more) and, for this, I try to mark it pleasantly so that it … Continua a leggere What Is Memory?
Sometimes we look for smiles that do not exist, but it is only because we would like the fakes and the braggart to come to their senses and recover the dimension of a possible authenticity.I often think, during my time of resistance and pondering, to the many lies that I have heard, but, above all, to the many liars who have dared to imagine them.It … Continua a leggere True Confidence
I have almost completed my new book, I feel my soul vibrate as if it were pulled from one side to the other by an invisible and resistant thread.As I write, in fact, my new testimony (writing is witnessing, in fact), the emotion of fragility upsets my heart and I wonder how it was possible to have lived this narrative that seems and really is … Continua a leggere The Strength of Writing Life
Writing in the morning is not a ritual, but a good day in hindsight that remains. Every time I take the pen between my fingers I ask myself: “What will I leave of myself?”The mind, in fact, never goes on vacation and perhaps never should at a time when becoming disaffected seems to have become the instrument of a pseudo-freedom. You feel free if you … Continua a leggere The Good
Writing Is Testifying 