di Lucidi Alceo
Caro Filippo tu oggi mi chiedi di parlare di Carlo Bo, nel centenario della sua nascita e nel clima di celebrazioni che ha avuto inizio per ricordare la sua figura intellettuale, ed io accetto di buon grado questo tuo invito. Mi chiedi di esplorare il suo rapporto con la lettura e di certo debbo scendere in un discorso che si addensa negli angoli riposti della mia anima, che trova una luce di consolazione ed un riscontro spirituale in un diretto, coinvolgente, sentito e mai concluso rapporto di costruzione di senso con le mie letture, con una dimensione particolare di lettura. E’ quell’esercizio severo ma stimolante che chiama in causa principalmente la nostra vera spiritual nature, our readers only be truly invigorating and surprising in the light of words, as it were deprived of that part of the transience of mechanical redundancy, schematic of thought and literature use to which a lightweight, consumer, would have to get used standardized, sensually addictive.
is not easy to explain because the speech is likely to be so complicated to escape our own suggestions or to a horizon of meaning that can enclose it in my limited, stunted reflection, to our own tastes often strained or poorly educated.
here should clear up any misunderstanding, any misleading generalizations and concentrate instead on the fact che per Bo la lettura fu sempre strettamente collegata alla sua opera di critico letterario, di pensatore, più in generale di scrittore. Né avrebbe potuto essere diversamente dato il contesto culturale ed intellettuale in cui si formò: quella Firenze degli anni ’30 del secolo scorso, unico vero avanposto di rinnovamento letterario in Italia, attorno a riviste, caffè, librerie ed un’editoria progressista, Vallecchi in primis, che favorì un confronto costruttivo e per certi versi una contaminazione tra aspirazioni e sensibilità di letterati, i quali, pur partendo da formazioni diverse, si rivolsero verso una visione ampia, libera e riformatrice dei processi culturali nel loro essere critici ed autori assieme. Facendo della I think art and literature a lifeline, the crossroads of humanist values \u200b\u200bagainst the inhumanity of power and fascist dictatorship.
should then classify the real need to read Bo, his way of living and even before conceiving, faithful in time and treated as a lifestyle, a surrogate measure of truth, in its dimension of discovery as "instrument of knowledge and " spiritual and intellectual depth " , as he was able to say how many times and have always professed, giving a tangible proof of the existence of a virtually unyielding desire reported and compared with the reading, filled with the books. And 'that' "I read my life, I have not lived" making it the ideal figure of an act that goes far beyond the memory of a text, namely the status of accessions emotionally immediate, suggestions and outer surface, at the time of adjustments, reductions in land speculation ideological or rhetorical asides or even more sterile controversy suggested by an unconditional injury than by a careful review. It is there that should be sought Bo player but a faculty of spiritual intuition and indeed much more open to suggestions vibrant soul, a motion moved by the applicant, interior, humble because continually refined in silence, always alluded to but never ostentatious, with its center the other book, the first book of nature "perpetual" It is added to the bed, "referring discounted wealth of knowledge within us, [...] and we must serve as a control, as a matter of comparison, the first matter of appearance. "
A job on the word sustainable, therefore, reading, an intense and demanding expectations of labor, silence, spiritual questions, the incessant dialogue between his own inner life and that of the writer with events and long-term effects and well after the simple power of vision of a text or a discounted temporality. The game of an active and satisfying the reader's interpretation of a text, in its freedom of movement within it creates a circular area of \u200b\u200binterest and thoughts and feelings that prolong the reading, give it a higher dignity, a appropriateness of cognitive status, and especially its "algebra", his "alphabet", ie a language recognizable only as long as you enter the folds of a book, to reconstruct the network of references and underlying meaning, understand against the light, adding a kind of interior diary with which we read critically the events and get over our material condition, dandole un respiro, un senso di compartecipazione alle problematiche umane di fondo, una memoria del tempo sicuramente più ampi e validi.
In questi termini la lettura diviene una sorta di educazione, attenta e prolungata, lo specchio delle nostre vicende e trasformazioni dell’animo, una misura di paragone sicura. Non è cosa di poco conto né che possa consumarsi in una fuggevole sensazione, piuttosto un processo lento, irreversibile, ripreso ad ogni nuova esperienza con il testo. Un lettore non finisce mai di esserlo e quel suo gesto di entrare a contatto con il libro è un modo per gratificare la propria esistenza, insomma per amplificarne la portata ed il senso, per farne la parte migliore dell’esistenza stessa: da Hence the title of his essay "Literature as life" in 1938, not surprisingly (again) known as the reference work of Carlo Bo sealed and movement, pointing to him as the best concentration of the aesthetic vision of the writer.
The backdrop to the conception of the reading of Bo's best-loved authors, those of the great French spiritual literature of the first half of the twentieth century and repeatedly referred in his writings of Gide Rivière, Sainte-Beuve to Alain Fornier I mention only in passing here and for which I recommend to any further investigation.
But I would only report the case of André Gide, author misleading, volatile, controversial, uncompromising secularly quanti altri mai eppure capace di dare un’idea lampante del senso vivo, partecipato della lettura concepito da Bo, riportandomi proprio alle parole usate dal critico per illustrare il carattere innovativo del metodo di Gide. E’ il modo migliore secondo me per onorare un uomo, la cui imponente figura intellettuale mi ha sempre trasmesso un senso di timore reverenziale (non ho mai avuto il coraggio di incontrarlo anche se ho frequentato la sua Università e lo sento vicino a me ogni giorno come figura di paterno conforto), così come Fabrizio De André visse artisticamente nell’eterna suggestione del maestro Georges Brassens.
“Leggere non significa trovare delle conferme anzi serve soltanto ad educare, quindi to take us out of habits, from vice, from the swamp of ourselves. In this respect I can not give any player better than Gide. His whole spiritual life is determined by the fashion of his readings. Will be reading conscious contrast, recovery of infinite intellectual tricks [...]. Besides, such a reading coincides exactly with the sense of his spiritual life [...] the original is always open for him the sense of proof, but a consolation try for nothing, and even reckless destruction of the embankment. We take the gospel - if it is considered to regard it as a book - and see who made the reading Gide. [...] For Gide was an open book means that its reading has continued beyond the practical test, the gospel fused in the order of his life has not ceased to raise questions, to offer new solutions. Gide must have read it and not to recognize those parts that were the same, and then indifferent and useless text, but on those issues that constituted an obstacle and falling objects such as dialogue: the dialogue that is the only true form of his speech . Accused him of straining the meaning of the books she read a book but forgot that he is alive because of the number of interpretations, which supports and accepts, not to mention just a plea was accepted in its history becomes inert and the subject of tolerance ".
For further information I have set up below a small bibliography of texts crucial to the understanding of the training of Bo player. Some with a little 'patience and attention are still in circulation. There is a site that gathers in the main network antiquarian bookshops in Italy where it is easy to find and is as follows: http://www.maremagnum.com/
Bibliography
1) C. Bo "reading", Urbino, Quattro Venti, 1987
2) C. Bo "Reading and Other Essays", Florence, Vallecchi, 1953
3) C. Bo Diary open and closed, Milan, Editions Men, 1945
4) C. Bo "The religion Serra, Florence, Vallecchi, 1956
5) George Tabanelli, "Carlo Bo, the time of Hermeticism", Milan, Garzanti, 1986, (updated edition in Venice, Marsilio, 2010. Available at all libraries and specialized websites).
Presentation Foundation Charles and Bo Marise : the library of Carlo Bo
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