La prima edizione di Ragazzi di vita del 1955 pubblicata da Garzanti . L ' illustrazione e la grafica sono di Fulvio Bianconi / The first edition of the book Ragazzi di vita ( The street kids ) was published by Garzanti . Illustrations and graphics by Fulvio Bianconi a world under the light of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini ’ s experimental novel , first published by Livio Garzanti in 1955 , with the title Ragazzi di vita , ( The Street Kids ), anticipates by a few years Pasolini ’ s poem in the famous verses of Ceneri di Gramsci ( The Ashes of Gramsci ) that illuminates the author ’ s conscience “ stuck in the unsolvable conflict of love and hate ”: «... with you in the heart , / in light , against you in the dark bowels ». Pasolini filters his personal drama of being through light and dark - as Vincenzo Cerami claims in the preface to the novel Ragazzi di vita , - “ he was a bourgeois wounded by bourgeois evil , and condemned to remain out of that world ”.
A world of well-meaning and even paternalistic communists alien to the people of the Roman “ borgate ”, an unfinished mosaic rejected by the light of the earthly face of the moon : “… now high in the sky , she had shrunk and seemed to no longer want to deal with the world , and was all absorbed in the contemplation of what lay beyond it .” Pasolini uses the silver of the moon to illuminate the transformation of the Borgate and to give light to the nutritional components of the post-war Roman villages - without challenging Alessandro Manzoni , the sublime author of Renzo ’ s vegetable garden , - “ it glistened , at the bottom of the garden , on the peach trees , the willows , the mock oranges ,
the cherry trees , and the elderberry bushes … Then it went down slowly to make the plan of the garden shine with light , or to glaze it with light : with the curved faces of the chard or the butter-head lettuce half in light and half in shadow , and the yellow plots of lettuce and the golden green ones of leeks and curly endive .”
Writing his novel on the precariousness and fragility of the world , Pier Paolo Pasolini becomes – according to Cerami – “ the passionate interpreter of a social class genetically excluded from literature ”. Pasolini describes the landscape of the Roman suburbs and , at the sunset of that world , surprises us with an unexpected anathema : “ Outside there was already some light : behind the forty boxes in a row of the Borgata degli Angeli , beyond the Quadraro , beyond the countryside , and beyond the misty silhouettes of the Alban hills , a reddish light appeared in the sky , like behind a glazed window , and it seemed that over there , on the other side of heaven , there was another Rome , which went silently on fire .“ In his novel , Pasolini makes the world of the Roman borgate protagonist in the shadow of the Ferrobedò , the mechanical plant “ from which some light still shines out ”; it is the other side of the coin , an indirect lighting on the way of being and behaving in a “ civil context ”.
14 – To be continued . For “ Epiphanies of light ”, to date , the following short stories by Empio Malara have been published in LUCE : “ Alessandro Manzoni , a creator of light ” ( n . 317 , September 2016 ); “ Herman Melville . Light that invites us on a journey ” ( n . 321 , September 2017 ); “ Light and dark in the portrait of James Joyce as a young man ” ( n . 322 , December 2017 ); “ Flashes and lights in Hemingway ’ s A Farewell to Arms ” ( n . 323 , March 2018 ); “ The artificial sun in the novel The magic mountain by Thomas Mann ” ( n . 324 , June 2018 ); “ The irreverent and irrational light in some texts by Carlo Emilio Gadda ” ( n . 325 , September 2018 ). “ Philip Roth ’ s revealing lights in American Pastoral ” ( n . 326 , December 2018 ); “ Marcel Proust ’ s lighted windows in the novel Swann ’ s Way ” ( n . 327 , March 2019 ); " In the Light of Leonardo da Vinci " ( n . 328 , June 2019 ); " Fyodor Dostoevsky ' s dar undergrouns as illuminated by Alberto Moravia " ( n . 329 , September 2019 ) ; " Natalia Ginzburg ' s Voices – and lights – in the Evening " ( n . 330 , December 2019 ) ; " The wilderness of light in Emily Dickinson " ( n . 331 , March 2020 ) ; “ The last shadow by Jorge Luis Borges ” ( n . 332 , June 2020 )
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