Fabrizio Ulivieri - TrendSetter

  I think it's important to move away from what is commonly known as entertainment literature.  There is an excessive amount of entertainment forced upon people with the intention of distracting them from reality, from what is really going on.  It's crucial that we avoid this and adopt instead a different way of thinking. Now is the time to challenge ourselves with a genre of literature that encourages critical thinking rather than mere entertainment. Although some may consider Albert Camus outdated, I believe he is a perfect example of anti-entertainment literature. I would like to mention authors like Christa Wolf, J.M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and Luigi Pirandello, particularly his plays rather than his novels. These authors represent a unique genre of literature that I recommend we explore further. The above names consist of carefully chosen writers who were selected with great deliberation and patience on my part, after having discarded tons of writers who (in my opin...

  Mi è capitato di leggere Kundera, dopo un girovagare di anni in cui iniziavo molti autori e li abbandonavo in un atto di grande delusione. La legge di Sturgeon che il 90% di quello che viene pibblicato è merda, è purtroppo vero. Lo confermo. Kundera in verità lo avevo iniziato a leggere molti anni fa, all'epoca del suo famoso bestseller " L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere ", che confesso non avevo disprezzato ma nemmeno mi aveva impressionato. Avevo provato a leggere altri suoi libri, ma alla fine il mio interesse per lui era decresciuto e si era alla fine estinto. Si deve arrivare alle cose, sempre quando le cose sono pronte per noi. Ebbene dopo molti e molti anni sulla scia di Kazuo Ishiguro, " The Bruried Giant ", il tema della memoria mi ha affascinato e mi ha portato di nuovo a Kundera. A sua volta l'istrionismo, il surrealismo che talora rasenta il limite della follia, mi ha fatto piano piano deviare a Luigi Pirandello. Altro autore che ...

  Another Kundera feature is his skill to connect the unexpected, what clashes, what is conflicting and usually is not convenient to put together. A great example of this  I found in Slowness where he is masterfully able to put in a connection the white, diaphanous, and angelic beauty of a woman with the liberating powerful thought of her ass hole. The full moon emerges from the foliage. Vincent looks at Julie and suddenly he is bewitched: the white light has endowed the girl with the beauty of a fairy, a beauty that surprises him, new beauty he did not see in her before, a fine, fragile, chaste, inaccessible beauty. And suddenly, he cannot even tell how it happened, he imagines the hole of her ass. Abruptly, unexpectedly, that image is there, and he will never be rid of it.   Ah, the liberating ass hole! Thanks to it, the elegant fellow in the three-piece suit (at last, at last!) has completely vanished. What several glasses of whisky could not accomplish, an ass hole h...

What I love in Milan Kundera (a writer I've finally and successfully managed to read after having cancelled and abandoned reading at least a hundred writers) is his talent for opening windows that consequently open other windows (a bit like Chinese boxes) without closing the former windows he leaves open behind. He starts with one story, then a window opens and you glance at another story, until that window opens another story without closing the previous one. And so on... A masterful example of this technique, even if not perfectly successful, is "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting", while a less masterful but perfectly successful example is "Ignorance". Too many windows, too many characters and too many situations in the first book, and the rather boring Tamina character, who occupies a large part of the book and slows down the pace. Unbearable for me is the story of Tamina on the island with the kids who live there. More calibrated and well-balanced the seco...

  I've never thought the fight against power could be a fight against memory.  Power deliberately brings lapses of memory by using media and propaganda. "Allende's assassination quickly erased the memory of the Russian invasion of Bohemia, the bloody massacre in Bangladesh made Allende forget, the war in the Sinai desert stifled Bangladesh's tears, the Cambodian massacre made Sinai forget. and so on...until everyone completely forgets everything." (Milan Kundera - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting). Many people fought and died for their country and their memory has gone lost or manipulated by the current Power that speaks on behalf of them who fought for something that really was the opposite of the new power that is now speaking in their name. This is what we call, betrayal of memory. I like thinking that the will of remembering is like being fond of your own destiny. Not forgetting is what gives you the strength and energy to go on with your ideas and to keep ...