February 6, 2011
returned from Paris and I find in the mailbox the December issue of the journal Imagination .
does not seem to have the mandate or other reviews ... so I open it curious ... who knows, I have included in their address.
The surprise comes on page 8.
They published the story that I sent. The most amazing thing, however, are the two lines under my name, in line with the text:
"Silvia Santirosi is a journalist, writer and poet. His writing like Romano Luperini"
Here. Here the heart has a little gasp.
Romano Luperini!
was 2009.
Exits for the types of Sellerio "The extreme age, and precious little novel by Romano Luperini. The presentation in Naples of the book gives me the opportunity to interview the author. And to meet in person one of the finest literary critics of our beautiful country.
Here is the text of the interview:
interview published in "Il Mattino di Napoli February 6, 2009. In
When submitting extreme age took place in Naples (Italian Institute of Philosophical Studies) on February 6 in the work of Felice Piemontese Antonio Saccone, Silvia Santirosi published this interview. It shows some excerpts, with some minor integration.
Silvia Santirosi:
This story is made of diaries that, rather than constructing a story, to reconstruct fragments of the present age that is changing. An ostensive gesture that seeks to indicate, allude to something without saying it. A visual writing, impressionistic, descriptive rather than narrative.
Romano Luperini:
For me the most important thing was to describe certain moods and emotional situations, to center the intersection between ethics and the existential dimension , the result tends to escape to writing essays. The question that concerns me is the destiny of Western man, an expression that returns even in the subtitle of my latest work, essays, and the case The meeting . The genesis of the two texts is parallel and has its roots in a reflection on the situation after 11 September. The atmosphere of postmodernism, the primacy of language and metaletteratura, the irony of quoting, they are rewriting failed around that date, but now longer feel the urgency of reality, the materiality of the facts and history. My romance is also born from this awareness.
Silvia Santirosi:
A proposed urgency of reality, what do you think of the phenomenon of the New Italian Epic?
Romano Luperini: I
is primarily a journalistic or found a proposal for self-promotion. E 'which are grouped under the label too many different experiences. I do not see what we have in common and Camilleri Ming Wu, or Wu Ming and Saviano. There is an abyss, and in this second case, for example, to the benefit of Camilleri or Saviano.
Silvia Santirosi:
The book talks about a framework of Kirchner, "Summer Davos", the protagonist goes to see the MOMA in San Francisco . Why this choice?
Romano Luperini: A
Kirchner is part of the cover also The meeting and the case . Kirchner is obviously a passion of mine. Under "Winter in Davos" is a man, perhaps an old man dragging a cow on a steep slope, with great stubbornness. A sort of obstinacy, or resistance, even passive, but tenacious. It 's a picture of old age of the protagonist.
Silvia Santirosi:
But the hero himself as passed, as if every action was impossible now ...
Romano Luperini:
I would say that the book is a tragic pessimism, but not surrendered. For example, the female character, Claudine, is there to remind us that "we must make something happen."
Silvia Santirosi:
But Claudine is invoked at the end to help the main character to disappear ...
Romano Luperini:
; Claudine represents the feminine, the womb of birth but also that of death. Can ideally help them prepare for the protagonist, to be accepted by death. What little hope and positivity that is in the book is still entrusted to her. Not for nothing that belongs to a generation later than that of her husband, George.
Silvia Santirosi:
In fact George is the perfect representative of a generation "beyond the despair and hope."
Romano Luperini:
George embodies the nihilism of hilar generation that grew up in the eighties and nineties. Fortunately, the end of history, the primacy of language and so on. I do not seem to be more commonplace. The age of globalization and the postmodern that began in the seventies of course is still going on, but the ideology of postmodernism, that accompanied the birth of this new historical period, it seems outdated.
Silvia Santirosi:
This story is made of diaries that, rather than constructing a story, to reconstruct fragments of the present age that is changing. An ostensive gesture that seeks to indicate, allude to something without saying it. A visual writing, impressionistic, descriptive rather than narrative.
Romano Luperini:
For me the most important thing was to describe certain moods and emotional situations, to center the intersection between ethics and the existential dimension , the result tends to escape to writing essays. The question that concerns me is the destiny of Western man, an expression that returns even in the subtitle of my latest work, essays, and the case The meeting . The genesis of the two texts is parallel and has its roots in a reflection on the situation after 11 September. The atmosphere of postmodernism, the primacy of language and metaletteratura, the irony of quoting, they are rewriting failed around that date, but now longer feel the urgency of reality, the materiality of the facts and history. My romance is also born from this awareness.
Silvia Santirosi:
A proposed urgency of reality, what do you think of the phenomenon of the New Italian Epic?
Romano Luperini: I
is primarily a journalistic or found a proposal for self-promotion. E 'which are grouped under the label too many different experiences. I do not see what we have in common and Camilleri Ming Wu, or Wu Ming and Saviano. There is an abyss, and in this second case, for example, to the benefit of Camilleri or Saviano.
Silvia Santirosi:
The book talks about a framework of Kirchner, "Summer Davos", the protagonist goes to see the MOMA in San Francisco . Why this choice?
Romano Luperini: A
Kirchner is part of the cover also The meeting and the case . Kirchner is obviously a passion of mine. Under "Winter in Davos" is a man, perhaps an old man dragging a cow on a steep slope, with great stubbornness. A sort of obstinacy, or resistance, even passive, but tenacious. It 's a picture of old age of the protagonist.
Silvia Santirosi:
But the hero himself as passed, as if every action was impossible now ...
Romano Luperini:
I would say that the book is a tragic pessimism, but not surrendered. For example, the female character, Claudine, is there to remind us that "we must make something happen."
Silvia Santirosi:
But Claudine is invoked at the end to help the main character to disappear ...
Romano Luperini:
; Claudine represents the feminine, the womb of birth but also that of death. Can ideally help them prepare for the protagonist, to be accepted by death. What little hope and positivity that is in the book is still entrusted to her. Not for nothing that belongs to a generation later than that of her husband, George.
Silvia Santirosi:
In fact George is the perfect representative of a generation "beyond the despair and hope."
Romano Luperini:
George embodies the nihilism of hilar generation that grew up in the eighties and nineties. Fortunately, the end of history, the primacy of language and so on. I do not seem to be more commonplace. The age of globalization and the postmodern that began in the seventies of course is still going on, but the ideology of postmodernism, that accompanied the birth of this new historical period, it seems outdated.
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