Fabrizio Ulivieri - TrendSetter

  I consider writers according to two categories. 1) boring writers 2) writers who make me suffer , About the first category, there is not so much to say. The 98% is boring, pointless, battery-hens-writers. See my post about MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ . About the second category, I include those few writers who, when I read their novels, make me suffer, and I have to read them in instalments. I can read a half page or one page each time, a maximum of two pages, after that the sufferance becomes unbearable, overwhelming, but nonetheless, I return to their pages because that sufferance, in the end, makes me think and opens new unprecedented horizons in front of me. It is well known that scientia dolorem auget . The most typical example is J.M: Coetzee . For example his Disgrace or Slow Man . But the peak is Salvador Besnedra, El traductor. His writing is first of all irritating, hurting, excessive, and displacing...but he teaches new ways of writing, new ways of thinking, and new ways of mi...

  When you read J.M Coetzee, in quite many works (here we take into consideration Disgrace and Summertime ) what hits or blows you is dolour, suffering that ultimately generates also physical pain. The characters of these books are prisoners of themselves, prisoners of the place where they live and belong to: South Africa. His dolour seems to spring from the reason of being a white person who does not find the right way of living because is living in an inappropriate place where to live. The story of Disgrace is the best example, where David Lurie and his daughter Lucy have to bend their personalities to the disquieting's will of Petrus, a native that used to be the assistant on the farm of Lucy, which/who also through the complicity of three criminals who rape Lucy and brutalize David he (Petrus) will slowly take possession of. In Summertime , where the main character, Coetzee himself, recollects his life through a fictitious biographer, who is writing a biography of Coetzee by ...