We no longer have the concept of justice, but perhaps we no longer even have an idea of it.We believe that what suits us is right having lost the ability of an overall look as well as that of the detail unless that detail is ourselves.We can only get involved if between the pain of the other and us there is a screen, a camera … Continua a leggere The Ethics of the Other
Sometimes one can feel like mannequins displayed in a shop window to show goods that cannot be seen but which, at the same time, can hide the defects and shortcomings of the unseen.Thus, I expose the smile that I do not see, but that I feel, I turn on shades of light and color in a dull look, I remain motionless welcoming what is offered … Continua a leggere Today Is a New Day
We watch helplessly at the widespread display that becomes exhibitionism of screaming and mocking voices, knowingly lying, which rage in the game of vehemence as if that appearance were noteworthy more than the contents and meaning that it has and that is given to the truth.We hear these voices as if they were a show represented on the stage of social life, but without the … Continua a leggere Learning to Listen
The patience of the slow breathing that with difficulty raises the chest to tell the world that you are still alive is the metaphor of resistance in every condition and in every situation.That tiring slowness, in fact, expresses all the strength of a will that is far greater than the indifference that does not recognize and applauds every effort to be true and loyal.The patience … Continua a leggere Scratched Pearls
Il catastrofico uragano che nel 1900 colpì fatalmente Galveston distruggendo ogni cosa e trascinando con sé fino alla morte la maggior parte della popolazione, diventa il background dell’avvincente romanzo di Joe R. Lansdale, “L’anno dell’uragano” (Einaudi, 2022).Il romanzo, breve ma acutamente trascinante, sembra narrare di due storie parallele, quella dei protagonisti e coprotagonisti, ma anche quella delle tante persone che pur non avendo relazione con … Continua a leggere Joe R. Lansdale: L’anno dell’uragano
Vincitore del Premio Pulitzer nel 1989, il romanzo di Anne Tyler, “Lezioni di respiro” (TEA, 1990) merita una lettura attenta che sappia procedere oltre lo spazio limitato delle pagine di un libro per osservarne non solo lo stile di vita degli abitanti di Baltimora, ma soprattutto la capacità dell’autrice di trasformare il quotidiano dei protagonisti in quotidiano del lettore.La scrittura è precisa, talvolta lenta, proprio … Continua a leggere Anne Tyler: Lezioni di respiro
Each one is the only thing left to the other, but if we think about how many each ones there are on the face of the Earth, we should consider that we really have a lot left. Getting out of one’s individualism and solipsism is the everyday imperative so that every day is a good day and a day good. Ognuno è l’unica cosa che … Continua a leggere We Are Not Alone
When you meet a gentle boy, it is often labeled by peers and not only (alas!) as “out of time”, as if there was a time to be kind, polite, respectful. Never definition was more wrong. Whoever welcomes it as true and real, does not realize the serious error he is making, because in recognizing even the only possibility of such judgment, implicitly asserts that … Continua a leggere Out of Time
The fog is so thick that it not only covers everything outside, but it seems to penetrate inside through the cracks in the shutters and every small gap that it cannot resist.You breathe her in, you can feel her on your arms made moist by her embrace, embracing but not seductive.The breath becomes short, out of breath, the chest jumps from the acceleration of the … Continua a leggere Fog in the Valley of the Heart
There are pleasant routines and others that create anxiety, there are those that serve to take possession of your daily life, but there are others that limit the space of your present by tying it to dependence on situations and conditions that are not your own, yet now you they belong.The usual actions, then, are overloaded with even more essential meaning as they become like … Continua a leggere Magic Routine
Writing Is Testifying 