I believe that love is following a road Tread sometimes uphill, but finally comes to a hill to lay eyes on all lands: their own and others'. Sereni you can stop, time does not exist, it stops, the world no. It does not matter if you lose a few rounds of the carousel, the carousel you have it inside, serenity lubricates and it runs without hesitation or fatigue. It is a serenity that comes from having reworked the past, listened to his heart, synchronizing it with others .The comedies, farces, dramas and the feelings of love are endless ... The love ends? We can never mark his last day, nor forget his last word.
It is the thread of feeling that binds the four events they see as leading actresses: Charlotte, Nora, Jane, Martha, female figures on which incardinano complex stories, the mirror of an education, a way of thinking, being in times and places different, tender characters, painful, tough, strong, conformists and nonconformists, emblems of real women's determined face existence.
A problematic existential pushes them to go back into the past, to find the true meaning of phrases, gestures, which, when it has lived, has not grasped the full meaning, the consequences which have resulted in the present conditioning it. This leap back into the past allows you to become more aware and then to decide their own future in a mature way.
2) Where did the inspiration for a short story, a story, a character, the inspiration for his stories? How that actually worked to turn the thoughts, ideas into a sequence of written words?
It is not simple to explain. As evening when you are about to fall asleep or in the morning, slow awakening of consciousness feels emerge a sentence, a scene, a character who knocks on the door of your being aware of it. It seems very Pirandello but it is. You could call it the unconscious reworking of living light, or inspiration, but if you let it take root in you, leads to a story, a slice of real life just waiting for you to be narrated. The character, in the course of the sentences, the stories that intertwine, acquires its definite personality, a sort of independence and it seems finally that he is almost running the show. For example, in the story to be born female divenir woman, short Bildungsroman, I myself, almost to the end, I was not sure which choice would Marta.
The reader, reading stories, he finds himself in the middle of a police investigation (A long conversation), to follow the thoughts of a woman who sees in an instant destroyed all the construction of his life (in a moment), reading, in a diary, the train of thought of a woman who does not know whether to take refuge in his mad forgetfulness or proceed to the conscious truth (a case of ordinary madness), to look with a participant eye the beautiful insight into a social reality, we still nearby, and the journey of a girl who was born female, has to choose whether and how to become a woman (Nascer female divenir woman), in her as in the other we understand their social role, their way of being women, girlfriends, wives , mothers, lovers. Women, like all women, know or learn, whatever the cost, that their job is to be "shooting stars", guides the journey so complex called life.
3) The four stories that form the book has the subtitle of the women's names, what underlies this choice? The male characters appear tinged, to negative traits, secondary, and yet decisive compared to the development of the facts, the development of the moods and actions of the protagonists. You want to talk about it?
As I mentioned the book consists of four long stories, over 200 pages, to each subtitle is combined with a woman's name around which the other characters, and the other numerous and exciting stories that intertwine and overlap. My choice in these stories was to centralize the interest on the psychology of women and how women, willing or not, must often be at the forefront in addressing all the vicissitudes of existence. The names I chose Nora have a symbolic value, in the third story, inspired by Ibsen's Doll's House, Giovanna in the name of Juana la Loca, Marta from the gospel which states that Mary prays and Marta work, because it is ultimately Carlotta a nineteenth-century name and the character may seem so. This is not to say that the male characters do not appear or are negative, they are the antithesis party with which you are confronted, and there clashes, conflicts that arise from being different as men and as women, with a way of being and feel different, but you can only tune but if you establish a form of deep interview, which was born from the understanding, from synchronize its heart with a different heart. when this latita you can easily turn from love to hate and vice versa because we humans are passionate beings.
4) The stories have a particular atmosphere?
One of the stories I have set in Naples, because I needed that scenario, those glimpses of life on the market of Antignano, of San Martino, on the Floridiana, sea, another is set in Rocca name to define one of the many southern villages perched on a rocky ridge, a place of suffering and traditions, which are opposed by the cities of the plain, a place with no name, place of estrangement identity of the protagonist, not of suffering, both are love stories of betrayal, jealousy, fidelity to their roots and they escape. The other two stories do not have a specific setting, just because they want to propose as moments of real life, transposable in other economic environments. It is different the historic two currently are tied to a way of feeling and being that all of us here have just left behind, and that is part of our lives and two others are contemporary, close to reality and feelings of today.
5) Among the women she presented which feels closer to him?
Hard to say which one of the stars I feel closest to me, I could say Nora and Martha because they are combative but writers love what they create. In their mind slowly you see the characters that they try to make the best, presenting them in the round, in their various aspects, to ensure that they outweigh the sense of transience that is in every thing, in every individual. They staring at the moment lived or imagined, feelings, human truths with their beauty and their miseries, make them real and therefore lasting.
6) She performs in many parts of the book of reflections that could be called philosophical, you want to make it clear?
Life is a scene from a play in which actors recite us to subject, with unscripted moments of magic always different, although the same patterns, perfection of unique moments dedicated to the few or the individual to that moment. Life is forest of symbols, phrases, signs, unexpected, sunny rays, storms, tears, laughter, meetings, confessions, shares, misunderstanding, search for security, tenderness, love. Growing up is to accept life with its stages of grief, of loss, of serenity, of joy because "it takes strength to be admitted weak, when you do that you are strong indeed."
7) Does it tell us in more detail one of his stories?
I'll tell you in brief Nora that you will find in the third story: I (n a moment, a title which already introduces us to the theme: how our linear lives can be turned upside down in an instant and seem to us totally different from what we perceived.
8) The stories are dissimilar to narrative modes, but taken together what is the message, the meaning of his book?
Three of the stories begin in medias res, so the fable and plot do not coincide, they all feature the flashbacks, leaps back into the past, which are used to make sure that the characters themselves clarify the meaning of his past life. All actors, men and women are heroes of everyday life of the living, in real space, but sometimes laden with symbolism. As for the composition aspects I created a flow of sentences into one another, a rhythmic musicality of the subjective through filters made by sensitivity and imagination of the protagonists in which experience escapes objective measure of time.
In the four stories I presented a short novel, an interior monologue, a story through dialogue, a diary, all complex stories, but reading sliding despite the smart quotations, the complexity of the events and the psychological twists.
I have been and are an assiduous reader, so I tried to write what I would have liked to read: compelling stories, ideals and true, lucid in sorrow and in joy, burning what life is like with the connections and interconnections with the world around . Here, I tried to make in writing ways of being and feeling that I have seen, I have lived, I felt around or inside me, I talked about that great mystery which is love. My message I summarize briefly: the difficulty of living, to "grow" for women, remaining faithful to themselves and becoming true, certain persons. However I have noticed that each player prefers and binds to this or that character, and he finally giving way to the final book.
I believe that writing poetry is not only pages or slide from the soul words without weight and change them into syllables that time measurement, is a find someone, something, that others with me and for me, give a better sense of their lives .
A long talk
(Carlotta)
The first story involves the reader in the middle of an investigation: that related to Charlotte Acquara death. The investigating magistrate Francesco D'Azeglio, complex and disturbing man, seems to want to play with the suspect, Dr. Enrico Monetti, like the cat and mouse. Between the two began a verbal confrontation which revolves around the young Carlotta, of which D'Azeglio was, teenager, love and Carlotta, mature woman, of which Henry had in turn in love with youth and with whom he had taken randomly the relationships, therefore resulted in a tender and desperate love.
In the long interview is focused a splendid cameo of a woman by the elegance and complex personality. The investigation ends, as the interview, with a surprise ending for the reader.
The form of the interview allows the narrator to highlight the different points of view. The precise and careful psychological analysis of the characters, the relationship with the past that shades the present, the delicacy with which the feelings are analyzed as they evolve deeply involve the reader.
A case of ordinary madness
(Giovanna)
In this story we discover a woman, Giovanna. She, by trauma, has lost contact with reality and with the past. In his diary we follow it in its progress and its repercussions to regain awareness of himself and of what has been, aware that others want to resume, but, at the same time, it is as if interfered. Found the motives of her trauma will try once again to escape oblivion.
The form of the diary clearly shows the lost, finding yourself, advancing, the receding of a mind bewildered looking herself and the reasons for a life; analyzes their feelings, deeper ones that grow enclosed in the deep, shows the wounds of the mind that wants and disvuole heal, heal if it means returning to his snake skin after molting, when it is no longer possible. It is too narrow and worn.
In a moment
(Nora)
In an instant our lives can, flipped prospects, appear different from what one was whether the figured until then, so it is with Nora. She realized teacher, happy mother, serene wife, he perceived, by chance, her husband in a car with another woman. In a moment they put in crisis all certainties. She wonders if it lost the house that he built is solid or if the fragile walls of a doll house. He is aware that his marital relationship experiences a moment of weakness and even more so after his son is gone, suddenly, at home. Traces the life is giving her husband have had to sacrifice the hopes and dreams. Her habitual love is guilty of jealousy turns to hatred to realize, finally, that she still loves her husband deeply.
"A sign that life is successful is the be loved. Do not be a sign of failure. " This warns Nora in close dialogue between himself and himself. In a moment she touches the tragedy, in a moment everything changes. Love knows no peace, rest, go ahead, who knows where, like all life.
The story, in a mild and realistic tone, narrates, in the form of interior monologue, the life of a woman who thought she was happy, but it was not more. An unexpected forces it to a close analysis of the emotional side and the rational part of himself to better understand, accept, be happy with what has been, what it is.
Born female, becoming a woman
(Marta of Archinti barons)
Already in the title this short novel makes clear a path of personal growth. Marta has lived a happy existence in a house, in a country rich in traditions, affections. He knows love, disillusionment. He returned to the country to his mother's death, recalls, the space of time from morning till night, his life, his past. He must decide what will be its relationship with the past, how to orient his future life. When you live them everyday, most often they appear the same as the individual grains of the rosary of life that flows between your hands. In conscious memory of then, you feel that a particular day enshrines net the boundary between what is past and what is present, fleetingly, indefinably, because it already starts to become what it was and opens the door to the future, and certainly can . For Marta, on the particular day that divides his life he was that of his relationship of love for Mimi, now is the day of the funeral for the eighth of his mother's death. This is the moment to decide who to be, how to be.
In the form of short novel intertwine different stories, slices of life, a way of living and feeling still close to us in our minds and hearts and just what makes it really plausible and expensive. (Marta was born in 1947; recalls in 1979, the story ends in 1998)
The delicacy of touch in grasping the nuances of deep feeling, attention to reality, the variety of events and their interweaving, the almost tangible presence of the characters presented in the round makes "The Red Thread" a book that is read with attention and participation to the end.
9) She writes it?
There is a good book on Michelangelo's life entitled "The Agony and the Ecstasy" just to symbolize the complexity of the creative work that brings joy but it requires hard work, physical and mental. Everyone has in it the angels and his demons, and if everyone chooses to follow them or exorcise them, a trivial example is the knitting or social engagement, political, family etc.
When an author feels deeply and pursues this sensitivity creates the beauty and the art is born, act of total attention to what you perceive true mirror of humanity, that goes beyond time and people.
I may wonder what prompted me, a person to write, to publish exposing a benevolent or critical comments, in a not early age. I specify that I started writing many years ago, only recently I'm starting to publish. I can say something about my personal journey. As a young man I was too busy to live, to weave relationships with my family of origin, after I was too busy at work, in love, I created a family. I met life and I experienced death. At this point I started to write. For me it was a laborious conquest. The work is inspired therefore a pleasure, but also a necessity, obsession and possession, as well as a breathability work. But creating I "am." The reader reading creates. Together we colloquiamo.
In an age where deep communication is difficult, it seems a significant result. Write may seem unnecessary outburst, a presumption, but in the words, next to my feelings can be found feelings, memories, reflections, after hearing where or by someone, that when the blood flows fast or in slow hours to die, and resurface I mirror I reflected and secure forever.
The publication of a book is the crucible in which the wise intellectual purity, and until it is not composed in printing characters, a script has no real value. Our senses are easily fooled, the fragility of the view often mistakes for solid gold that in the light of the fire is just a piece of shiny brass. I hope that my book is not seen as an act of presumption or folly but in reading those I have in my hands among us will realize that you are creating a bond.
As he wants to end?
Wrote Maria de Zayas Sotomayor (1590-1660): "If the matter of which we are composed, men and women, whether it is a mixture of fire and mud, or a mixture of earth and spirit, it does not enjoy greater nobility in men that we women; if the blood is the same, though the senses, energy and organs that perform their functions are the same; and if the soul is the same, since the souls are not male or female: for which reason men presume to be wise and say that we women can not be?
We are in a world of great wealth and deep malaise brink of collapse in which objects take on value by virtue of their consumption, and their performance and now this attitude is adapting to the human being, as commodified, as an object of use and consumption, where human emotions are degraded, reduced to images and selfies jerky stored in a cell. Thus the thoughts, feelings, experiences evaporate in the share market, a symptom of an inner void, because more and more it confuses its image with the broadcast network. That's why after you find yourself lonely, with nothing to say, empty abandoned shells. That's why it's important to talk, read about real feelings, deep, they leave traces inside and not outside, the prelude to a new sort of sentimental education.
Birds, writes Flaubert, not nest in a day. We need a long habit because the heart can live in any place.
What are the new projects?
I sent it to a publisher a satirical book on the school and am finishing writing a book between reality and fantasy on the relationship between the human race and the dragons.