Last year, more or less these days, I found myself re-reading for the second time one of the books I love most: "The Art of Joy" Goliarda Wisdom. Of course people are born with a name like that is challenging almost feels compelled to leave a trace for posterity ...
And here's me at four, five years in a muddy area that draws a huge piece of wood. There are not any trees or houses around, just the sweat from the effort to drag his body hard and the burning of the palms acute injuries from wood. I sink into the mud to the ankles but I have to pull, do not know why, but I have to do. We leave this as is my earliest memory: I'm not going to make assumptions od'inventare. I want to tell you what it was without changing anything.
These are the first sentences of the story involving, beautiful, modest, Sicilian woman whose book covers the entire life, from poor but full of discoveries, to maturity, when it is surrounded by children and grandchildren in a large extended family. True to itself, just look for a lifetime of joy. To exist, to be, without following the established schemes, going against the morals of the time with his libertine ways, the true loves, intense, with men and women. And everything is simple, everything is normal.
This book is the masterpiece of Goliarda Wisdom, and "felt" on every page, every sentence, there's his whole being. Strong woman, free, without prejudice. The first appearance of the book brings many troubles (it was published only in 2000, posthumously), risk eviction from the house where he lives, the light is cut. He works as an actress of theater and cinema, her life is like life heroine of the novel.
Goliarda wrote in solitude, watching the sea, in the morning, on sheets folded in two extrastrong because the reduced size allowed it his idea of \u200b\u200bmeasurement, which penned the words in a spelling quite petite, by each more and more staff back up to reduce it to one or two words, then start again with a whole line and came out a curious design, a type of electrocardiogram of words, writing a very heart.
An excellent book for your holiday, if I like the genre!
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