"I give you the America," said the fellow. Yes, but which America? Elio Vittorini's America maybe? America's Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner and John Fante? The authors translated the Sicilian from Syracuse to start the Thirties? O 's "America" \u200b\u200bthat same Vittorini inserted in the note anthology American exit (Bompiani), and that he could publish only in 1942, however, notes and incomplete work of the curator? Yes, here we want this America again, we would like them all. The America that can be discovered by intellectuals raised on bread and Italian, and ran along the edge of a government that an attempt at self-sufficient even in letters, in fact you will not. The America that appeared in the fantasies of dreamers on both sides of the Mediterranean almost like the "Desert of the Tartars" in the eyes of Captain Drogo. Menacing and mysterious at the same time. A living myth, a realm of freedom indecipherable, "homeland" of the modern and the fantastic elected together.
Vittorini, Pavese such as those authors who have contributed to the fact that Italy became a bit 'more "American", he bequeathed an invaluable wealth of charm and passion to grow, and he thus "incurably" Sicilian anarchist in spirit, he felt the call of a culture (and language), it was impossible to "own" or "narrow", and more could be "exported" as a valuable asset. Now, can not blame him. On 12 February this year marked the forty-fifth anniversary of the death of Vittorini, a man who, like many of his generation - the two authors include some different as Longanesi and Calvin - had to deal with the century of ideologies, and steering a middle course between "faiths" different, I could never fall in love with himself who, at that time, maneuvering the levers of power. Now, we can say that it was anything but easy .
was not easy for him as for those who believed that the culture possessed - precisely because culture - its own degree of autonomy from politics, was not easy for those who believed that culture was revolutionary "whatever" was not easy with those who paid off - right or that was left - believed to hold the destinies of the world in his hands. It was Mussolini (or a "simple" Mussolini) or Togliatti. The result, a "bocce ferme 'was almost identical for all occasions. The mockery and ridicule. They are in the minds of all the provocations of Togliatti (character, however, now almost disappeared from the memories of a time that was ") with which the" best "leave of Vittorini in 1951 left the Communist Party in controversy with its leader: "he's ghiuto Vittorini, and just left us!" .
Se di un Togliatti, soprattutto di quello che poteva rappresentare a quel tempo, oggi non avremmo francamente alcun bisogno, di Vittorini invece, «in questi tempi di bipolarismo coatto», per usare le parole di Roberto Alfatti Appetiti, ( Secolo , 11 luglio 2007), «ce ne sarebbe un gran bisogno, anche per evitare di sobbalzare ad ogni starnuto della politica…». Piaccia o no, l’Elio di Siracusa è stato quel che si dice un termometro del contesto culturale italiano, a volte perfino un metronomo per averne segnato “tempi” e modi”; ma se oggi ha senso parlare di una “cultura politica” – qualunque essa sia – which remains far from the master, who does not want to ingratiate themselves with the power, nor by the stroke right, the model, one of the models, which can not be his way of life .
Vittorini Apparently the story is that of "any" Sicilian who decides to go north in search of new perspectives. Initially working as an accountant in a construction company in Friuli Venezia Giulia, then at the dawn of the Thirty, he moved to Florence - a beacon for those who desire to pursue a career intellectual - where does a proofreader at la “Nazione ”. Studia, legge, frequenta le “Giubbe rosse” e collabora ai periodici di Regime. Nel ’29 collabora a “Solaria” piccola ma importante rivista toscana che guarda con attenzione al romanzo europeo ed extraeuropeo e molto meno a quanto accade in Italia. i primi romanzi li pubblica lì. La sua gavetta è questa… Già nel 1934, a causa di un’intossicazione da piombo, cambia mestiere e decide di vivere solo con le traduzioni dall’inglese e l’attività di consulente editoriale .
From this moment until his death (1966) is not bored much. Between high and low his detachment from fascism is dated 1936. Can not frame it so far among those who believe that the scheme is working well for the "absolute" for him, anarchist and revolutionary in the blood, it is preferable to complicated and challenging the definition of "fascist left." During the English Civil War on Bargello writes that the Italian fascists is good for Republicans to support these anti-Franco. It is not a joke recently. On the other hand, and a bit ', his speeches are not in line with the thesis fascist "orthodox", and in an environment che di sereno non ha molto, se ne accorge chi conta; lui però anticipa tutti e – da uomo libero - riconsegna la tessera fascista. È il primo strappo da qualcosa dal quale, in definitiva non crede fino in fondo (le sue parole verso i ragazzi di Salò, saranno, in seguito, durissime). A parte il polemico Conversazione in Sicilia del 1941 (apparso a puntate sul “Letteratura” nel ’39) nel suo Uomini e no , del ’45 (primo esperimento neorealista), la condanna del fascismo non si riduce a solo un “affare” di politica .
never tires. In '39 he was in Milan to lead the series "The Crown" by Simon and Schuster, then approaches to the underground Communist Party, joined the Resistance, directs the Milan edition of ' Unit and founded one of the most popular magazines of the postwar period: " The Polytechnic. Standard-bearer of the optimistic climate and natural home of the intellectual who wants to combat the suffering and not just comforting appeal. Emblematic of experience but just two years. Soon he consumes the second pull "political" of the anarchist Vittorini, this time by Mario Alicia and Togliatti. The cause? Simple: in years in which the victory "Definitive" seems more in reach, the Communists just appreciate what does not concern them (the water to the mill of the other) and just appreciate the variety of the themes of "Politecnico". Magazine "beautiful" beautiful inside and out. Vittorini is one of those who do not like playing the "pipe for the revolution" (not in his style and his intentions) and writes with frankness that the writer need not feel bound exclusively to the policy requirements. Certain result, again, is divorce .
Increasingly convinced of the power of culture, directs, since 1951, a series of books by Einaudi ("Tokens"), discovering, among others, Beppe Fenoglio. Having founded and directed by Calvin "The Dummy," attentive to the implications in the industrial field, driving in the sixties another prestigious book series "The Medusa" to Mondadori.
died just 58 years, far too early for someone like him. And for those of us .
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