The noise of the sun that helps to live and write
Marco Marcelli
with the sound of the sun (The alley publisher, € 14.00, pp 117), Xavier Tutino gives us a new chapter in the "saga" dedicated to himself. A valuable contribution to the reading of which the author introduces us, journalist and writer, outlining the salient points: "Two friends and two myths off in the confusion of the Cold War. A love and a non-heated. A shield shattered. Five stories from childhood to old age. " In fact, in the pages of The sound of the sun is much more than that. Tutino has invented a style, "a way of describing life, original and effective, as well summarizes Lidia Ravera, signing the presentation:" A man who lives traveling in politics and policy, it moves between Cuba and Uruguay, Paris and Brussels, but never ceases to travel even within himself. " And it does all that, you can add, weaving courageously, without exaggeration, the self and the world, the history and the most intimate and painful events. The author recounts the last twenty-five years of his life moving from the attack the Cuban revolution, the Red Brigades terrorism to cancer, without changes in tone or rhythm to emphasize the passage from one dimension to another, but always keeping the eyes of those who seek the roots of the events in which they are immersed. "To evoke a distant time also means to regain self-control", says on page 82, and is perhaps in this affirmation, the sense of an autobiography written and rewritten constantly, scattered in a dozen books and countless articles, a diary long as life. The diary, the autobiography as a favorite instrument of "seeing oneself through others," while recognizing the character of "writing essentially unreliable." The habit of traveling the world and love of others, because only this can give the breath that is lacking when it looks after itself, led Tutino to give birth in Pieve Santo Stefano al Archives of Autobiography popular first emerged in the West. Five diaries and memories of the so-called "ordinary people", collected in twenty years, from 1984 to 2004, "to the memory of the Italians." But the noise of the sun is above all a long, anguished reflection on writing by the world and medicine for the soul (for Tutino, writing has become even more of a rage from 1989 onwards, the year that changed the world and the certainties that had lived up to that point: writing is well served to question the changes in defense without retreat). The words of Montaigne succor the author to capture the healing power of storytelling: "Painting for the others I have painted in colors that were not the primitive net. I am not so I made my book than my book has made me "(page 86). And, again, this time resorting to Rousseau: "I understand that the player did not want to know too many things, but I need to tell me." But the firm intention not to make himself "the main character of his life" emerges mostly from the memories of Saverio Tutino special envoy to Latin America, in France of De Gaulle, Stalin's USSR and Mao's China. In his travels often extraordinary meeting with destiny allows him to use the myth as a base to build a modern culture of resistance against the mechanisms of the domain of the rich world to the poor. Tutino is forty years old when, in 1962, the Unit Cuba will send it to the Resistance in Piedmont and Valle D'Aosta (in 1944 and 1945 was political commissar of the 76th Brigade Garibaldi). Havana Ernesto Guevara listens to talk to young people, telling them that they must remain vigilant, especially in the face of injustice, "able to disobey and oppose" and "knowing how to discuss and seek clarification on anything that is unclear." As she recounts Cuba, the memory runs at a school friend, Lorenzo Milani. Tutino and he attended the same high school in Milan, in the year "in which Mussolini imposed fascism, a way of life without thinking." Tutino, however, that the war had become "militant journalist" has always thought that one could be militants "without satisfy the model of a culture of party." Not so the leaders of the Communist Party at that time, if it is correct, as the hero of those events, that "I looked Pajetta repeated the party's most militant of the Cuban Italian party." And, finally, with the exemption Tutino pay their intellectual freedom that continues to exert tuttoggi.Ultima record. In the stories that have more recent dates and more explicit form of diary, repeatedly used the name of Glory: the companion and the wife to whom this book is dedicated. Together, we hear "the sound of the sun."
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