Carmelo Bene: restless genius and polymorph of the Italian scene, witness ACRI player duel between old and new theater in the last four decades of the twentieth century, and yet "author-writer of rare integrity, the high tension apparent in his writings both linguistic and literary theory. Five years after his death, Stefano di Lauro commemoration of the artist proposes a model with Salento The fly in the glass. The Poetics of Carmelo Bene (Icarus, 2007), volume is very valuable for editorial content and invoice.
The theater Well much has been written by distinguished scholars of Italian and French, the same can not be said of his poetry, never explored richly in its entirety (logical-to-analog, diachronic-synchronic), where s' Apart from the plethora of work on the "lump dense theoretical" of phonè . The fly in glass is, precisely, a comprehensive analysis of beniano thought, from the beginning until the Roman actor machine, ending the almost totemic hairdryer, last act of a theoretical development very articulated joints which examines Lauro consequential aporias with a sensitivity and a measure that stem from a deep intellectual honesty, an honesty that never scratched unquestionable admiration for his leaked well studied.
beniana The poetry is well-known redundancy of intertextual references as well as "divertissements irritating and mocking." The risk based, a study sui generis, is to "borrow the forms of linguistic genius," rather than indulge in some deception due to the character and unsystematic naturaliter of histrionic Salentino. The author avoids this risk, and come with winch epigraph in overture (quotes from a couplet in marker on the bench of Verona "), that" words were already all / you had only read them in the right order " ; with what already declaring the basic principle that informs the study, that the quote direct, or a juxtaposition of quotes.
The fly in the glass "seeks, as far as the matter permits, to be enlightening and somewhat 'popular', or [...] seeks to detect the 'sources' of his thought [Carmelo Bene] in order to better understand the evolution and to unravel the twists to make them. "
These days, in truth, the word" popular "can not lend the side a few misunderstandings. But it is immediately clear that the disclosure to which the author alludes which is far dall'intendersi simplification, and contains but a probable allusion to the Vulgate , or the translation "most faithful" of the Scriptures, because most faithful closer to the sources. In this case, "sources" are twofold: the words of the Good and a large portion of contemporary literary and philosophical (romance, decadence, irrationality and structuralism; assume the common thread of negative theology and speculative mysticism), to which the Salentino is closely related.
The analysis, however, remains on a level of mere neutrality; it goes further to consider, with the suffrage of a large collation of quotes, the idea of \u200b\u200bstructuralism as theoretical horizon most likely to 'understand' both the postulates that the paradoxes of his poetry. "The argument, while certainly a novel wide range exegetical beniana flowers around the work, seems happy and persuasive.
The four thematic chapters that make up the work (on Adelchi on renewable sources of philosophical and literary sources teatrica) creates a dense web of intertextual: it can happen to intercept the com -motus, which crosses the secret vibration History of a leap and start a dialogue between synchronic Adelchi and Levi-Strauss, between Manzoni and Lacan, among immodesty beniana shocking and mystical inspirations of Meister Eckhart, to name just a few of the many matches.
without fear Allocation from the pack, as he says, and yet without losing the proper scientific humility (the monster should pay for natural disposition to approve or disagreements resolved, whence, as already said the risk of generating an apologetic commentary left or speculative), the author unfolds his speech with commendable honesty that never shuns the accurate interpretation argument, and that is not short of useful frameworks capable of facilitating their use. Clear idea of \u200b\u200banything but populist, to Lauro, who helps with discretion and resolutely, to pave an alternative route to the statement of the cultural domain, although (or perhaps mercy) he is considered an outsider , a "maverick" as he likes to be called. A visit to the site ( www.stefanodilauro.net ), indeed attractive, provides its readers with interesting information on the poetry of this former theatrical composer, filmmaker, playwright, recently "converted to writing to avoid actions of discontent. " His editorial last year's debut with an unusual work of fiction, Òpera . It is quite possible that The fly in the glass , remains a unique , isolated in a raid essays, and serve as means from the book, a casual ("but the case does not exist," warns the author ) occasion of gratitude for his Masters.
University of Naples "L'Orientale"
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