The magazine MAQ May-June 2019 | Page 81

MAQ Magazine n. 12 / May - June 2019

Obviously, on the Sunday when Prisco mentioned his intention to me, I could certainly not imagine such a result. I just grasped the stimulus and the next morning I poured it on my beautiful geography colleague.

"Paul Klee" she commented. "We have a copy in the library."

She went a few steps further and came back with a book in an economic edition. He was a Don Quixote illustrated by Paul Klee. Nothing could be clear representation of the feelings that animated the actions of the sad figure of the knight, more than those subtle signs, which intertwined to build a lean figure, laboriously emerging from the opacity of the white sheet.

As would have happened to the semi-unknown Stinga and had already happened to Gonin, the famous Klee had happened the opportunity to create a parallel work to that of a writer. The two languages, one next to the other, were extraordinarily close and, at the same time, autonomous.

Paul-Klee, Angelus-Novus