“Writing gives me happiness, but reading gives me more because it gives me things that I could never have imagined for myself. ” Erri de Luca It transmits the serenity of a monk who is not in a hurry to whisper words in Italian, although his only religion is literature. At 18 he left his natal Naples to Rome and began military in Fight continuousan organization of the extreme left. He worked like worker In the metallurgical industry, it was albañil And during the Balkan War it was Humanitarian support vehicle driver. Latin was the first language he learned in a self -taught way; Then the Russian, Swahili, Yidish and ancient Hebrew would be added, of which the exodus, the ecclesiastes and Jonah’s books to the Italian has translated. The author of The fish do not close their eyes will present at the Book Fair this Sunday at 17.30 The experimental age (The experimental age), A reflection on the old age he wrote with the French Inés de la Freessange.
De Luca, one of the best contemporary Italian writers, has published More than fifty worksamong which are No here, now not, You, mine, Three horses, The weight of the butterfly, The fish do not close their eyes, The opposite word, NATURA EXPOSTa y Dirtamong others. Paissed mountaineer, at 74 compares that sport he practices with writing. “when a mountain is scheduled, I have a route that I know, a fairly precise route because I follow a path through which others have already passed. When I write, on the other hand, I do not know the tour, I have to invent it. While I am going away; With writing I am approaching the people and places I am telling. “The writer’s hands grab imaginary stones in the air and outline a smile.” I don’t have the feeling of being in danger; When I climb I am very calm and concentrated. Climbing mountains is a gift that I make myself.”
Write all your books by hand; Once they are corrected and reaches the final version only then you dye them on the computer. “Writing by hand means that I am at the same rate as the narration; the hand has no urgency to capture the phrase”he explains and although he left Naples because he wanted to “own” his departure, as he counts in one of the texts that integrate Dirtthe tongue of his feelings is Neapolitan. “My nervous system is Neapolitan”confirms from Luca, who lives in the Roman countryside, thirty kilometers from the Italian capital.
Insists on the importance of reading, which defines as an “immense basin” from which a lot of water can extract. “I am a reader of the Quixote And I read a Turkish poet, Nazim Hikmet, who in one of his poems called him ‘invincible gentleman of the thirsty’; Connected with the fact that Quijote always lost, it seemed to me that there was a contradiction. But it is a revelation; It is invincible because Quijote gets up and fights again after each defeat. This vision of Quijote was given to me a Turkish poet. The spark of happiness comes more from reading than writing.”
The last name Maradona expands its Mediterranean blue retinas. “His left foot was the most sophisticated instrument of geometric precision and soccer juggling,” Luca wrote in one of the texts of Dirt. “It is something I wrote for gratitude,” he acknowledges and remembers the moment when the Argentine player arrived at the then San Paolo stadium, today renamed Diego Armando Maradona. “There was no game; it was just a presentation, but it was full. Maradona grabbed the ball, began to make games, prawns, his tricks, to thank the public. That was the engagement ring between Napoli and Maradona.”
There is a foreign term in the Dictionary of the Italian writer. “The word patriafor those born in the postwar period, it is associated with fascism and nationalism. My father, my mother, when they heard the word homeland, had a negative reaction, of a lot of rejection. I never liked the word homeland, “he admits. And he emphasizes: “My only homeland is the Italian language”.
He worries “the accumulation of threats” to life on the planet for climate change. “The world is so scared that it denies that there is a danger of imminent avalanche; so this is a favorable time for the rights, because for fear of losing, many want to keep how little they have or even prefer to take several steps back. A character like (Donald) Trump is an ogre of a fable. (Javier) Milei is the ogre that shouts in a fairy tale“, Compare of Luca.
The word esperanza It means that you are waiting for something to happen; He keeps you still and calm, “questions the Italian writer and looks for an example to deepen the matter.” I found a ship in the Mediterranean that was saving the lives of náufragos; Mothers with children who were rescued. Then I wondered what was stronger than the maternal instinct of protecting their children. The answer is the despair of not finding anyone to help them and seek salvation in the sea. The true motor force of the world is despair.”
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