Piero Red
We often read a book and remain so fascinated by almost unconsciously seek further evaluation. An author so you can discover the location coordinates in the universe, history and literature, in which it is built. It circumscribes the existence in a narrow angle and less controllable so scared of those who deals with exploration.
Now what if in this corner, which now we feel in control, he was, a variable to handle, but abnormal small enough to crack the security that there is an argument against? As a trapdoor, which lives from before we found a house and accidentally one of the rare times that dusted under the carpet. Open it and are liable to do something unpleasant or ignore it, cover it and leave it there where it's so good that no one else finds it, as well as our eyes that will invariably curious to rest on the carpet whenever they get the chance. What to do?
This feeling of disorientation is that you feel the adventure in what was once a warm and cozy nook of Ignazio Silone. If we were to lay the foundations for the furnishing of this corner, begin with the significant date of birth, chosen by his father - who decides to wait two days to get it recorded to the registry - a May 1 (1900), in order to saying that the social interest, supposedly to have accompanied him from day one. Then continue with the name of art (actually worry Severino), Silone, which borrows from fifth in 1923 Poppedius Silo, leader of the resistance of the Marsi in the Social War against Rome in 90 BC, only ten years later he added the name Ignatius, at the first publication, by a cooperative socialist at Schaffhausen in Switzerland, Fontamara . And it is this book which is the solid angle of our furniture, solid social commentary as " a brick in the stomach of southern Italian bourgeoisie," a novel in which every veristic attention is restricted to "first farmers appear meat and bone in the literature Italian "(letter to Silone Gabriella Seidenfeld from Davos, July 29, 1930).
Now you need to add some furnishing plant, the roots Silone throws in being one of the founders in 1921 of a PCI Togliatti and Gramsci. In 1927 in Moscow, where he traveled with Togliatti in the meeting of the Comintern executive, on the occasion of the liquidation of Trotsky and the Stalinization, was born in him a crisis in our common faith that is expressed in 1931 when he left the party looking for a Socialism autonomous, free of ideology in the PCI neurosis seems to be infected. It is very convinced that any party anti-totalitarian is destined to become, once in power, the replacement of the regime that has just overthrown. Pane e Vino in of 1935 writes:
Every new idea to spread, it crystallizes into formulas; for its preservation relies on a corps of interpreters, carefully recruited, sometimes specifically salaried, and any event subjected to a higher authority, responsible for the separate concerns and punish deviations. So any new idea always ends up becoming an obsession, building, surpassed. When this idea becomes the official state doctrine, then there is no escape.
words dictated by its deep political pessimism, but have not ever served as an alibi to escape from the social struggle.
Then, ladies and gentlemen, when the angle is well furnished and welcoming, and you find the trap door opens: the Silone, signs Silvestri, who takes information reports with the Police in Rome on the activities of communist organizations, reports started ten years before his arrest for illegal militancy of his brother Romulus - thus excluding the possibility of cooperation in order to save him from prison. Under the carpet there is a different man from the writer. Discover that we have studied only in profile, the half Silone, and not be noticed by its dual nature, and believed him to have been deceived.
is increasingly clear that the first dispatches of Silone date back to 1923, sent to the police commissioner Guido Bellone, then Inspector General of Police Division policy, which was the only police officer with whom the writer had reports. Not sure but as they began, one of his likely arrest in 1919 could suggest a blackmail his release in exchange for information; tactic often used by police with young militants and inexperienced. Pane e Vino again Silone insert a character who has been closely reviewed by critics in the light of new discoveries: Luigi Murica. Interestingly, one of his dialogues:
"[tells of his arrest for militancy] I was slapped and spat upon during one hour. Maybe I would have gladly endured more of the violent beatings, instead of those slaps and spit. When the room door opened and the officer who was questioning me [...] rebuked, or pretended to scold his subordinates, he made me wash and dry, he took me into his office and assured me that he had dealt with the case with my kindness and a spirit of understanding. [...] Had information on my family and the difficulties which endangered the continuation of my studies. [...] '
"In short," interrupted Don Paolo, "the official suggested that to minister to the police. She said what? "
" accepted "
Murica agonizes for this choice, even though his life depends on the subsidy that the police in exchange for providing information . During the militancy meets a girl who introduced him to one side of the life unimaginable to live pure, honest and conscientious. This finding, however, does nothing but sharpen his tremendous remorse "Hand in hand were digging an unbridgeable contrast between my life and my apparent secret life. [...] If the new group of friends admired me for my courage and my business, it reminds me to the realization that, in fact, was betraying them. " Silone, equally tormented in 1930 sent a final letter to the inspector Bellone with which truncates each report and asked never to be contacted.
How to enjoy, then, an apple, half beautiful and half running? Probably physically cut into two parts, but without throwing the black and wrinkled, which also has been instrumental in the formation of the fruit, an element that enhances the apple itself, as capable, despite everything, to care for and develop itself , one side shiny and juicy. Apples, writers, "I'm not a lay clergy to administer spiritual humanity nor do they understand the life and politics necessarily better than others. Many of the greatest writers of the twentieth century were fascists, Nazis, Communists worship of Stalin, we continue to love them, to understand the tortuous and often painful journey that led them to identify with the disease, mistaking it for medicine learn from them and also a profound humanity "(Claudio Magris, Literature and commitment: the cold heart of the writers," Corriere della Sera, October 21, 2007) . The decision taster.
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