queste pagine si sente l'odore del potere delle case editrici, un libro obbligato, insomma, La scrittura savianese stanca e arresa c'è tutta, e nessuno mi toglie dalla testa che la parentesi Abruzzo gli sia stata imposta con la forza.
Da leggere, forse. Ma senza troppe pretese
Roberto Saviano, Beauty: his writing , literature. Hell: the life he is forced to live since he published Gomorrah Gomorra in Italian in, Beauty and Hell La bellezza e l'inferno is the title of his latest published book I've just finished reading,
When he wrote and got his first book published , he couldnt imagine that his life and the lives of his dear would change forever.
They have become hell. He lives under constant police escort since several godfathers he mentions in his book want him dead, His family had to move and change their identities, Do you think his people living in Campania, Naples and areas nearby, consider him a hero Not at all, He has been emarginated and left alone, attacked and offended with awful “graffiti” on the walls, They consider him mad, not a hero, Not that he considers himself as such, He is still shocked for the consequences that his thirst for justice, freedom and truth has brought to him,
I think he has been very brave, starting at only, to do what he has done so far: in his writings, articles and books he employs prose and newsreporting style to narrate the story of the Camorra a powerful Neapolitan mafialike organization, exposing its territory and business connections.
He denounced the underworld which, like a cancer, corrodes our beautiful country and consequently his life has changed forever,
I felt guilty since I really couldnt cope with his Gomorrah, Millions of people read it but I couldnt go beyond the first pages, Too harsh, too violent, too shocking, The same was with the movie, I just saw some scenes, But it was not fair, I thought, Such a man, one should be proud of, deserves more from me, . . I have to read one of his books, not only listen to him in his rare touching TV appearances, And I did it. “La Bellezza e LInferno” is a collection of articles and writings not only dealing with the Camorra but especially with Savianos relationship with writing, the beauty in his life, and the description of his personal hell.
His prose is reallly involving, he knows how to use words and this is the reason why his words have attracted so many readers and this is also why all the attention to his words infuriated the godfathers so much that Saviano is to them a “dead man walking”.
This young man believes in the power of the words and he is right, Maybe they cant change the reaility or the entire world but they can touch the most hidden corners of the human mind and soul.
There are so many beautiful pages and thoughts in this book! Im sorry you cant enjoy them since it hasnt been translated yet.
Gomorrah was and it was quite successful in the USA,
Lets see if , with my poor translation, I may convey to you some of his beauty from the Preface
The danger of reading
Writing in these years has given me the possibility to exist.
Articles and reports. Stories and editorials. Work that, to me, hasn't simply been work, It coincided with life itself, If someone hoped that living in such a difficult situation might induce me to hide my words, they were wrong, I didn't hide them, I didn't lose them, But this has made it a fight, a daily fight, a silent punchup fighting, like a shadow fight, To write, not to renounce my words, has meant not to lose myself, Not to surrender. Not to despair .
The title of this book means a simple thing, It just wants to remind that , on one hand , we have freedom and beauty, necessary for those who write and live on the other hand, their opposite, their negation: the hell which always seem to prevail.
To close this preface, Saviano quotes Giovanni Falcone who said that "like any human phenomenon mafia too must get to an end".
And, finally, he quotes Albert Camus: "But Hell has only one time, then one day Life starts over ",
Then a series of beautiful writings and articles follows in which Saviano tells us about Miriam Makeba, Lionel Messi, Enzo Biagi, Peppino Impastato 's mother, Joe Pistone or the real Donnie, Ana Politkovskaja of his experience at Cannes Festival where the movie Gomorrah was acclaimed of his being invited at the Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize Ceremony with Salman Rushdie about his faith in the power of words.
Words that can unhinge reality, oppose any form of power, witness the certainty that the truth exists,
despite everything,
Έτσι ακριβώς όπως το λέει ο τίτλος του!
sitelink blogspot. gr BOTW
Abridged by Eileen Horne
Reader: Nicholas Murchie
Producer: Clive Brill A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio.
Cover from Guardian, co. uk
blurb Gomorrah, a blistering expose of the Neapolitan Mafia, the Camorra, by a young Italian reporter, Roberto Saviano, became a bestseller both in Italy and internationally when it was published four years ago.
The film based on it was Italy's entry for theAcademy Awards, Both book and film stripped the glamour from the mafia and revealed its protagonists for what they were: ruthless, banal, sociopathic thugs far removed from elegant, Godfatherly sophistication and singing in a very different choir from the Sopranos.
Now he has published a series of essays, Beauty and the Inferno, in which he reflects on his new life as a fugitive writer and the experiences of others in the same position.
"I'm not allowed to go for a walk, even with bodyguards," he explains, "Sometimes I can't stay in the same hotel more than one night at a time, . . more often than not I've stayed in rooms at the carabinieri barracks, " Duncan Campbell: The Guardian, SaturdayOctober
Refreshing set of diverse essays, two thumbs up. Siempre es un placer leer a Saviano, porque leerlo es comprometerse, es entrar en una batalla, es descubrirse en los otros y mirarse en un espejo.
El libro es una compilación de textos publicados deay dos textos inéditos, Cada uno aporta a este concepto que planteó Camus: "Existe la belleza, y existe el infierno, querría en la medida de mis fuerzas ser fiel a ambos.
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También es un libro para aprender qué sucede con estos personajes comprometidos y que se dedican a expresar y revelar verdades.
Porque, dice Saviano, "una verdad de la palabra siempre provoca una respuesta del poder, si es eficaz, " "El que escribe muere", nos relata a través de la historia de Anna Politkóvskaya, autora de "Chechenia" y también a través de la historia de Giancarlo Siani, cronista de "Il Mattino".
Es un libro de reflexiones profundas e importantes para entender al hombre y para entender al poder, en textos breves,
Cada una de estas historias es un viaje a la belleza y al infierno, .