The word that we are saved from rhetoric and eventually replace it with life. Walter says the good sites in your introduction to the new volume, signed by Roberto Saviano, "The word against the Camorra" (Einaudi), citing the author's words on the DVD that accompanies the book: "You have to choose, or life or authority - the two things together, in this system, there is no harm. " Sites says: "The literary word, dissipated in a thousand disguises and humbled by the power of images, took the road more and more ephemeral and soothing entertainment. "
other way to pass the word, to save himself. This is what Roberto Saviano mimics in many ways, his writings and his face, could only put it into practice, acting it out: my life for the word. My life to restore dignity to thought. My life as a down payment in order to regain the public consciousness. Pasolini He tried to teach us these things, and came out muted. There was darkness. Then again the word is synonymous with dignity, thought, reappears. And remember this very closely, what Parmenides did not stop to say at the beginning of the history of thought: the original and scandalous union between life and word, between being and thought?
is on this borderline that you play the fate of the literary word, and indeed the word and nothing else. If the word needs to catch up images of TV is already dead easy. And in this, mainly, is the enormous intellectual experience of Saviano, that can not be more than a writing, after giving his life there on the public bank, for all: as an experience.
It can not be denied: its power lies in the fact that you put up there and spits in the face of the declining power of the word, the decline of the power of testimony. And it embodies the contrary. When the word is detached from the sacred (and in more than one occasion Saviano spoke of his relationship with the sacred word), the theophany, when it stops being revealing, witness the sight of the monster, witness the return from the underworld at that time that given society is dead. Without the vision of the dead, with no escape from the temple, without the burden of bringing the Word of God, the word has no purpose, and the company retires the law as its foundation based on the written word. Then all you can say, the truth is no longer home. And the word became a dead letter in turn, tinsel useless as a stupid jingle accompany the images, glove worn and thrown away.
ThisRoberto Saviano is doing, and this is under death threats from Italy: he shows us the repressed, what we are, the mafia and criminal origin of our economy: one that can not be said, what should remain underground. And in this new box set, to do this Saviano, in fact, also puts us face: attach a DVD, where he recalls that the weight of the testimony also brings in a printed book or the theater or on TV. Do not change anything, any means to relieve a bit 'of the burden, which then returns relentless.
In this context you give, in my opinion, the harsh polemics of these days between the publishing group that publishes his books, and the writer: non ci può essere negazione, sottrazione di responsabilità o discredito, tra la parola che testimonia il mostro e il suo supporto, le pagine su cui la teofania si scolpisce. E in questo spazio di separazione, certo, c’è la potenzialità di una rottura che non è solo editoriale, ma è istituzionale, è dentro le vene stesse del Paese: il simbolo della lotta alla mafia contro il suo supporto editoriale e istituzionale: ovvero di nuovo contro il Paese in sé, contro il suo capo del Governo. Un conflitto che non può che vedere o l’una o l’altra parte vincente. Non entrambe.
La seconda sezione del dvd riprende la puntata di “Che tempo che fa” andata in onda il 25 marzo del 2009, when I had the opportunity to meet Roberto in the dressing room after the live, as I described in an article published in Indian Country, "We are all in danger" . On that occasion I had proof of what I saw: the eyes of those who had the courage to face the god, the monster, and must bear witness.
That look is contagious, those words are drugs that can also lead to cure or kill "a complicity - Saviano says, in fact, about the choice of silence, dell'omertà before the truth - that did not even need of impairment, not just acting and everything is fine. "
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