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L’economia è la forza ideologica dominante della società e bisognerebbe ripensarla attraverso l’espressione artistica.

Hilly Kristal, tratto dal film CBGB

Scrivo, ma mi definisco una voce e non uno scrittore. Quello che faccio è lanciare messaggi attraverso testi e immagini. Dal conflitto tra i personaggi e l’ambiente intorno, attingo le mie trame. Raccontare le stonature è quanto mi propongo di fare con i miei libri.

Rimango fedele a due principi ispirati da Emil Cioran e Raymond Carver, che riporto nelle righe successive.

Cos’è un libro?

Un libro deve frugare nelle ferite, anzi deve allargarle. Un libro deve essere un pericolo. A cosa serviranno mai i libri? A imparare? No di certo, per imparare basta andare a scuola. No; io credo che un libro debba essere davvero una ferita, che debba cambiare in qualche modo la vita del lettore. 

Emil Cioran 

 

Effetti collaterali.   

Se siamo fortunati, non importa se scrittori o lettori, finiremo l’ultimo paio di righe di un racconto e ce ne resteremo seduti un momento o due in silenzio. Idealmente ci metteremo a riflettere su quello che abbiamo appena scritto o letto; magari il nostro cuore o la nostra mente avranno fatto un piccolo passo in avanti rispetto a dove erano prima. La temperatura del nostro corpo sarà salita, o scesa, di un grado. Poi, dopo aver ripreso a respirare regolarmente, ci ricomporremo, non importa se scrittori o lettori, ci alzeremo e, “creature di sangue caldo e nervi”, come dice un personaggio di Cechov, passeremo alla nostra prossima occupazione: la vita. Sempre la vita.

Raymond Carver

Economy is the society’s dominant ideological strength and should be rethink about it through the artistic expression.

Hilly Kristal, based on the film CBGB

 

 

Welcome to the English version of my blog.

I like to think that the posts collected here are regulated by punctuation as if they were part of a single preposition. I will write about literature, publishing industry, books and e-books, music, everyday stories and art in general.

Well, think of my post as a blues song: if I can communicate or get you feel emotion, I did my job.

 

Regards,

Enrico

About me - I define myself a voice and not a writer. What I do is sending messages through texts and images. I draw my plots from the conflict between the characters and the surrounding environment. To narrate the jars is what I intend to do with my books.

After a ten-year experience as a union delegate, I got into themes like job, professions and arts.

The stories I tell are plausible, set in the suburbs, at the bus stop or little neighborhood train stations, in a mall or in a bar. My characters turn out to be defeated, isolated, disillusioned, inconsistent with the environment, are figures looking for a sense which is either forbidden or adverse.

I remain faithful to two principles inspired by Emil Cioran and Raymond Carver, which I quote in the subsequent lines.

Enrico

What is a book?

A book should open old wounds, even inflict new ones. A book should be a danger. What should books be used for? To learn? No, of course, just go to school if you want to learn. No; I believe that a book should really be a wound, that it should somehow change the reader's life. 

Emil Cioran 

 

Side effects.   

If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last couple of lines of a story and then just sit for a minute in silence. Ideally, we will reflect on what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off a little ahead from where they were before. Our body temperature will rise or fall by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we will recompose ourselves, writers and readers alike, we will get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.

Raymond Carver