I love Tolkien very much, his culture so vast that it allows him not only to imagine fantastic worlds and stories, but to do so using the ancient and deep roots of language and language.I love him even more because the meaning of his works is renewed with each re-reading and each time one has the feeling that something else can be discovered enough to … Continua a leggere Loving Tolkien
Sometimes my voice as the heart would like to yell “I don’t feel good, help me!”, but he fails and silences as his heart silences on this topic while he loses in the look of loved ones and decides that only their good, their smile counts.It is wrong, I know, but I am not able to show my pain above others, I am not able … Continua a leggere A Silent Scream
“Cuore di ghiaia” (La nave di Teseo, 2023) di Abdulrazak Gurnah è un romanzo che trascina dalla prima all’ultima parola in una dimensione che cala ciascuna persona in una malinconica realtà che fa parte dell’esistenza di tutti.Una malinconica narrazione che, però, avvince e guida il lettore a spogliare il proprio pensiero dalle apparenze e dalla negazione di verità e dall’indifferenza, poiché ciascuno, nella propria realtà, … Continua a leggere Abdulrazak Gurnah: Cuore di ghiaia
How can one be so cruel, without moral, without criterion or discernment. How do you reduce yourself to executioners enjoyed by destroying the life of the other. As one can be so miserable that one can only enjoy the power over the suffering of the other. How can you live so far out of the world that you can annihilate it without realizing that you … Continua a leggere How Can One Do It?
How beautiful is the silence of the dying night, that instant of sublime suspension before the sky begins to take on color and run through its new noise.It is an instant in which you can imagine what peace is, without screams, violence, unpleasant intrusions by all that would like to forge your freedom in its image.It’s a moment in which you can really feel part … Continua a leggere Sublime
Incapable of silence, incapable of listening but also of listening to each other.Only in this way can I explain the nocturnal screams without dialogue and the wild and aimless rides on mopeds that become the shape of their minds, thoughtless mechanisms.Thoughtless not because they are lively carefree and motivated by a joy that is born within. Without thought because empty, indeed, emptied of sense and … Continua a leggere Excavated
Zeruya Shalev nel suo ultimo romanzo, “Stupore” (Feltrinelli, 2022), rivisita la storia della Resistenza ebraica prima della fondazione dello Stato ebraico attraverso l’incontro e la memoria.Le protagoniste sono due donne, Rachel (ormai 90enne che ha partecipato attivamente alla Resistenza) e Atara (architetta 50enne che di quella storia subisce le conseguenze a partire dal suo nome).Rachel e Atara non si conoscono, ma, quando Atara si mettererà … Continua a leggere Zeruya Shalev: Stupore
Although the universe appears filled with parallel lives, the truth is not that everyone is alone, for each life has a link to the lives of others, a link in time and beyond it, a link called humanity.Many lives but only one people, despite and thanks to differences and multiplicity.Every day, every instant, the world is teeming with events that overlap in time but not … Continua a leggere Parallel Lives
Each day is a link in the chain that joins the previous one and already promises the next one. It’s an open ring that seeks a hug and a hug is what it wants to leave.However, each link is a circuit, just like those hours that from sunrise to sunset seek, or not, a path of meaning. If they don’t look for it and leave … Continua a leggere A Chain
How strange human beings are, we discard every experience as if it were a burden and not an experience.It is true that there are experiences that weigh, but none should ever be erased because each one tells a story that is our story.After waiting for it like air to breathe, we already label mid-August with the phrase “this too is done” as if we can’t … Continua a leggere So Strange
Writing Is Testifying 