Combining the splendor of the word and the harshness of reality. Telling: driven from within, burning desire to change, but never without being overwhelmed. This is for me is the model, the ideal of writing, I find in novels, short stories and essays of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, Nadine Gordimer. It will be the theme of the meeting and confrontation between whites and blacks during apartheid, masterfully told by his pen, which is never predictable and never boring because narra lasciando che a parlare siano i più profondi impeti, le più nascoste pieghe dell'anima umana. Per questo la sua lettura più di quella di chiunque altro, oggi mi appassiona e consola. Proprio perchè il suo "impegno", non è mai cieco, idealizzante o demonizzante. Ecco alcune sue riflessioni sul tema, che copio dalla raccolta di suoi saggi "Vivere nella speranza e nella storia. Note dal nostro secolo".
"La moralità della narrativa consiste nel prendersi la libertà di esplorare ed esaminare con impavida onestà la morale contemporanea, compresi sistemi morali quali le religioni.
Quando mai gli scrittori hanno potuto eludere la politica, apertamente o implicitamente?
Perhaps the time when slaves and peasants lived in misery, while the sculptors were looking for the perfect proportions of the human body? The period in which the revolutionaries were detained in the prisons of the Tsar and the Grand Dukes Alessantro buildings were built in Nice? The period in which to hungry and unemployed were offered the salvation of a growing fascism while the playboy and the girls danced on the edge holding glasses of pink champagne?
It seems that there is no way to escape that relationship .
Not all writers who weave a relationship with the political bartering the imagination with the hair shirt of a party hack. There is also the case the writer whose imaginative faculty are truly awakened and called into question by the spirit of politics as he experiences it firsthand . It may not be the free choice of Byron. It can be something which is virtually impossible to escape in time and place of social earthquakes.
The role played by literature in enlightening our people, open up their lives in the power and beauty of imagination, he revealed himself through the writer as the depository of its ethos.
E 'of this revelation that they are afraid schemes.
.. but writers, artists of all kinds, are there to split deposits produced by custom and open a gap between the bars that hold captive the sensitivity exist to allow the imagination free to tick as the lush grass in the meadows. "
