DELIRIO-FAVOLA

DELIRIO - A tale of anybody di Paolo Sassaroli
E-BOOK BY PAOLO SASSAROLI

Isbn 978 88 6591 198 3

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Paolo Sassaroli
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Rupe Mutevole
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Introduction

Living inside and outside, relating to the outside world with your real self, laying yourself bare without fear, letting life's burdens and the conditions that life frequently imposes roll off you. Paolo Sassaroli wanted to merge the significance of feeling ‘ an anybody' with a tale of delirium - shocking but engaging, exposed and painful, merry and lively- this Everyman hasn't written a poem but a lyrical, musical, resounding prose. He wanted to repeat words several times, to make people understand that this work is a sort of underlining, a pregnant Yes, overflowing with emotion, teeming with sentiment, driven by extreme exasperation, so his readers can feel it more, understand it more.
Divided into parts, brief but full of meaning, this book is a sort of diary, an extract of a trip like that of Robinson Crusoe's, who, by making cuts in a tree counted the days of his shipwreck on an island in the middle of the sea. Lost and haggard, like those dogs who appear abandoned and yearning for caresses, Paolo Sassaroli takes us on an adventure to the point where everything starts again, like a cycle that is reborn, that starts the wheel in motion again. Reading this book, I was reminded of a book that I liked a couple of years ago: Let's not be down! by Nick Hornby, whose writing, often discussed by critics, has became a sort of literary phenomenon for its vision of a rickety and precarious existence which, at the same time, is important and strong. Like him, our own author wanted to use a mix of sensitivity and disgust to describe the passage of his life. He does this with a candid grimace which enchants and which makes us ask, ‘What is this man trying to say?' What is his emotional intent? What is his ideology? If we are asking these questions, our conclusions will not be mundane. We will be dominated by a nauseating sense to reflect, like taking bitter medicine knowing that it will make us better. As the chapters follow each other one by one, our understanding increases: rebellion against rational bourgeois thought, against conformity, against the fear to say, against the considered ethical norm. Sassaroli should be denounced for this work, apparently simple but, in reality, tormented and written without any sign of regret. Man, in substance, has to suffer thought which sharpens his perception as to what he is and what he will be.
That the principle character is young makes us think about the future of our young men of tomorrow, our boys. What will they become if they don't begin to really think now? Will they be anybody's or complete individuals, forged by the first lines of reflection and understanding, and so mature and capable of giving and giving themselves? I liked this aspect of the novel very much - intriguing, voluble, in constant discussion, but direct and tenacious, wanting at all costs to discover those things which are hidden but are actually here in our hands. It is enough just to see them or better to get them to show themselves.
All young people should read this book to gain clear insight and examples of spontaneity from those mereordinary dayswhich arethe everyday lifeofthose who know how to live.