Review Carlo Vanni reviews the novel Francigena - 1107 AD Novellara on Reporter of 22 February 2008 page dedicated to the Culture, in his column beds for you. Following this review and the page to direct on-line version of the magazine of Reggio Emilia.
story as a way (by Carlo Vanni)
might as well give up and admit it: after all, all that is really we research, watching movies, listening music, reading comics and books is one thing only: making you feel telling stories. A pleasure that, with the book "Francigena. Novellara to 1107 "operates on several levels: there is a sense of philological reconstruction, the stories that come from far away, other places and other times, and yet have taken root in our collective imagination and hence continue to influence perception of reality and imagination same time frame, there is a taste for new and original stories, because the authors did not confine themselves to research and collect stories that already exist, which also would do fine, but we have put them: hybrid, combining stories and sites , creating a result of intermarriage and fascinatingly intriguing as ever, there is the taste, finally, the weather, as there is no story like the one that accompanies you during the fatigue e la noia di un lungo viaggio. “Stavamo viaggiando verso Massa, attraverso la Cisa, per recarci alla Fiera del Libro, io, Gabriele Sorrentino e Simone Covili” ci racconta Elisa Guidelli, a proposito del libro, di sé e degli altri due autori, “e ci siamo resi conto, come per caso, che stavamo in fondo percorrendo l'antica via Francigena, che attraversava Piemonte, Liguria, Emilia e tutta la Toscana, sino a Roma, ed era tratta obbligata per viaggiatori in genere, commercianti e, soprattutto, pellegrini di ogni genere; e chissà quante storie avevano visto questi chilometri! L'idea del libro è nata così, per un caso; poi, ci ha portato via tre anni di lavoro!”. Detto, fatto…si fa per say. First, take an inventory of the places through which wound (once even culturally, geographically today only) the great way Francigena, then, the collection of stories linked to them, the characters, popes, soldiers, emperors, wanderers, and ghosts lovers, so on and so forth. "For the stories, we have plundered all that we have found, without scruples, there Boccaccio, Ariosto is, there are the medieval chronicles, there are the stories of ghosts of the tavern and chansonniers pitches for ... rather, there is all this, more often as a starting point as that operation is finished, because the flour is just so much of our lot, we have spent a great deal fantasy. " In fact, we recognize, often without any particular effort, the roots of the tales and their historical tendencies, but just as easily you can imagine the gigantic work of hybridization of stories, in which, as in any good medieval bestiary, only the observer is more streetwise of who is and who the head of the corner, but the overall result is a new beast and bewildering, to reinterpret, to make it readable languages \u200b\u200bincomprehensible to most times now, the inlaid with tiles embedded in other stories used as a framework, and so on. The result: a Novellara reminded us that, while not daring to make comparisons, the splendor of the Decameron, but also another great Novellara di viaggio che è “I racconti di Canterbury” di Chaucer, che ancora oggi, per fortuna di tutti, continua a ispirare meraviglia. Un libro, questo “Francigena”, che ci sta già spingendo, ancora una volta, a metterci in viaggio per recuperare i luoghi storici, quelli geografici e quelli immaginari, in cerca di nuove storie; e già, appena ci mettiamo in cammino, ci accorgiamo che sul blog legato al libro, ci sono racconti “bonus track” non compresi nel libro. Insomma: buon viaggio.
Link diretto: Storie per mettersi in cammino
Un ringraziamento a Carlo Vanni.
